Had brief chance to catch this in Banff last summer. Unfortunately, not thrilled with background, especially 2 branches at top and around tail. Was not sure if it was worth spending a lot of time trying to clone these out. Again, as I have learned in all the forums: background, background, background.
Nikon D300, with 24-70 mm f/2.8 lens at 70 mm, f/9, 1/125 sec, ISO 200
Hi Jory,
I like your composition and capture...I see noise in the background, the wooden fence is too light and the greens are too saturated...I modified your composition by cropping from the bottom and from the right had side of the frame to eliminate some of the negative space, thus putting more attention on your subject; not the fence..I desaturated the greens and dodged in the hues on the fence, and selective sharpened the eye...see if this presents best to you...:cool:
Thanks. I had actually specifically sharpened the eye, but probably not enough. When I applied noise reduction, it also affected the squirrel, and I was not able to selectively work on the background. What did you use? BTW, saturation is as shot - do you think the greens took away from the squirrel?
The best place to deal with the branches would have been at the time of capture. Moving up a little might have given a little separation which would have been better. We have to live with branches and manage as best we can. To remove those entirely would be a labor of love ... and mot likely would not look natural !!!
I think the original is a little over saturated and would tone down. I think without the original present the re post by Gus would look fine, could sat a bit more to taste.
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