Background - I could not move postitions (yes the sun was from the wrong angle) and it was physically impossible to move anywere else, this was the only angle I had.
Yep fill flash would have helped.
So what do you think - worth trying to do something with - or assign to the rubbish bin?
Dont be shy - happy to hear all comments and see all adjustments.
Personaly I love the pose/action - maybe this just wasn't to be the time for me to get this shot.
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It is worth fixing Lance !!!! ...... how would "you" do it ? :)
btw with those settings the flash would not have made much difference, probably would have been 1/8 power. Also did real well with the exposure, whites look fine despite the light !!!
Luscious BG. Cropped a little. Lightened the head a tad via levels, and painted an area beside his head that was white and cropped just a tad.
My two cents.
Beautiful photo!
Not a photo guru by any means though:).
A keeper! Here's what I did on my repost. Cropped, mostly from right, cloned out the white area near the Kite's beak, lightened the face and eye using a quick mask and shadow/highlights filter, cloned in a tiny bit of highlight in the eye, applied shadow/highlight filter on whole image then selectively on the hot areas on the leg, secondary feathers and tail, applied a hue/sat layer to slightly bump up the color in the legs, applied a selective color layer to add a bit to the blacks and grays in the image. I think that's it!
Hi Lance........and all,
Selected just the head & beak with a combination of the lasso tool and magic wand........using black matte as the preiew in select>color range.......holding down shift key.......selected entire head...........apllied layer mask........pulled down screen blend mode........set opacity round 30%...........blurred it using gausian blur. Merged layers and selected only the eye........used levels to lighten a bit and adjusted contrast on it...........added very subtle catchlight with the clone stamp at 1 pixel and used the grey in the head. I might have been tempted to tone down the whites a bit more overall........but just lightening the face & eye seems to work pretty well. Let me know if you need any more specific information.
dont throw it away!!! i like the reposts and after seeing what those guys did with a small jpeg, i'm sure you can rock out the RAW!!!! for pete's sake!! it's taken with a D3. the original file has to be huge!!! good luck with it, mate!!!
Hi Everyone - thanks, I do know all the procedures mentioned, guess I wanted to see what the best possible result was - to see whether it was worth fixing... youve nearlt got me convinced lOL :) :) :)
Photoshop GURU'S - fix or not?
