Deer on San Juan Island taken with D300, 70-200m, 1/800 @5.6, 300mm(converter used), ISO 400 and hand held through the window of our car. There was a fence that was in my was that blurred the lower frame area and I was afraid if I tried to remove anymore it would clip some of the deer, so here goes......
Hi Shellie This works really well for me
I like the framing very much Having the animal centered would have ruin the image imo !!! Great pose and love those ears Might give the eye area a sharpening round and would fill in the light area on the top left. Never want light areas around the periphery !!! Great feel and you get a big congrats on this one !!!!
Hi Shellie - agree with all AL said. I really like - Congrats.
On my screen it looks a little dark - could just be my screen though... I made a couple of changes
Added a bit of S/H to brighten it up a tad - sharpened the eyes and did a real quick fill job on the top left hand corner.
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Agree with above comments and Lance did a good job at brightening it up just enough IMO. I would crop the top, darker part off though.
Hi Shellie,
Like Lance's repost but agree with Desmond about cropping off the top.
It's a cute image...I would have loved to have seen more of the neck but understand you were working under limited circumstances. Next time, add the fence and see what you can do with cloning it out. You never know till you try!
Quite nice!!!! Like the re-post
repost
Ok...I removed some of the top portion, but how about the eye sharpening???? Did I do as good as Lance?? I need to get that CD still on masking and etc that has been suggested several times. Tell me what you think. I dont think the eyes look as sharp as when Lance worked on it??? I used unsharp mask with settings around 125,1.5, and 4.0???
Hi Shellie!
Great to see all the effort! For my taste, I feel that the latest post is slightly tight around the ears. If you are comfortable, see what extending the top of the canvas looks like, vs the cropping off of the dark area. I might try something like a free transform (good to learn now, along with plain old cloning).
Are you comfortable with some simple masking layers? You can try making a new layer with sharpening, and just mask the sharpening to just the eyes and face (instead of just applying it to the whole image).
Finally, to make the eyes really "pop" and alive, I would try the same eye enhancements that Artie teaches for his birds (basically lightening the iris and darkening the pupil). Give it a try ... this image has great potential and I'm sure everyone will be happy to help out!
Not that much, Shellie. What I had in mind was something more like this.Originally Posted by Shellie Dallas
Looks GREAT Desmond! I need a lot of practice with CS3 still! LOL Thanks!!! Very Nice! Can you tell me some specifics of what you did??? Brian mentioned eye enhancement that Artie teaches???? Can someone tell me where to find this???? Thanks everyone!
Thanks for your approval, Shellie.
I started with Lance's version. Cropped some of the darker top. Then cloned out the residual dark area with a cloning stamp on a blank new layer. After that, added another blank layer to apply healing brush. Once done, flattened the image and blurred the top to make that part look smooth and hide any clone/healing brush mark. Then I sharpened the photo with with smart sharpen in LAB mode (just my preference to do it in LAB mode). After that, changed back to RGB mode and applied high pass.
Terrific Desmond!
Shellie, the technique has been mentioned many times by Artie, and is also available on an instructional CD. I will try to look it up. The QM (quick mask) technique that goes with it is also highly recommended. It is very easy to learn, and with a little practice can be deadly on all kinds of things!!!
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