how to fix this?

[Joerg Rockenberger]

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to easily remove OOF front objects? Broke my heart when I saw the image...

Thanks, JR

Canon 30D, 400F5.6, 1/1250s, F6.3, ISO-400, Manual Exposure, Handheld

[Jackie Schuknecht]

I Used The Quick Mask Technique For The Water And Thought You Would Have To Reconstruct The Crayfish Pixel By Pixel. Not Quite Done Though.

[Desmond Chan]

Broke my heart when I saw the image...

I feel your pain. Jackie may be on the right track there. I'm afraid you really have to do it bit by bit. Perhaps patch tool or copy and paste ??

[Gus Cobos]

Hi John,
Lady Jackie is on the right track. also your focal point is not on the eye; its on the catch. The eye is a bit fuzzy, not sharp. and the capture angle is a bit too steep. If at all possible, try composing flat on the ground or close to it...:D

[Doug Brown]

Try this one on for size.

[Lance Peters]

Hi John - Dougs repost is on the money for me. Nice capture - do agree a lower angle would have been good.

Robert O'tooles APTATS CD - covers all the quick mask stuff - great info and cheap to boot.
look forward to sseeing more :)

[Joerg Rockenberger]

Wow. You guys are amazing. Thanks for taking the time to work on the image. I am familiar with quick masking but I am not sure what exactly to do after. Did you clone in adjacent areas? Or is there a way of selectively removing the green cast?

And Gus, I realize that the angle is a bit steep. This fellow and its parent were really close but I had to shoot across some reeds. There was unfortunately no way of getting lower.

Big Thanks! JR

[Doug Brown]

What I did was a little complicated. It basically involved selecting the parts of the bird that didn't have a green line running through them and copying the selection to its own layer. Then I cloned the BG to remove the green line. It did require that I do a little drawing also.