Got out this morning after a few days of cold wind and rain here. Caught this colorful little feller doing some serious fishing. The image is cropped and sharpened, only.
Hard bird to expose for Wendell. Think you are a bit over on both ends???? Love the reflection and might add a bit more canvas to the bottom if you have it. Love these birds, they rarely stay still.
Hi Wendell,
I like the capture...a few things to consider...agree with Jackie on adding canvas to the bottom...also might want to position the duck on the upper left hand side of the frame, just a tad...the hot spots on the duck need to be toned down and the water is a bit under exposed; might want to lighten it up a tad...I like the head angle and eye contact...the colors are beautiful...looking forward to your next one...:cool:
Think you could back off on the whites a little Wendell. Think they might look a little muddy?? Did you use the burning tool. Don't know if you have linear burn or not, you could try that. The framing looks really nice on your repost.
Well, Jackie, i tried to do it with Tone Curve in Lightroom, but I can see that i failed. I've now tried your "burn" suggestion, in PS, and got a much better result. Thanks for your followup . . . I think I'm trying to oversimplify my work by doing all my corrections in Lightroom, and some images can use more attention in Elements or PS.
You shoot in RAW Wendell? That is when you have the most flexibility to fix an image without your changes being destructive and changing the actual pixels ( I think) I shoot in RAW, then convert to TIFFS for print, and finally jpegs here for posting. Just bought a TERRABYTE of memory because some of the files can become so large if you are saving all the layers.
Hi Wendell - all great advice above and agre with it all - yes you should make your changes to the RAW file before you save it as a JPG. I don't know that you are going to have the latitude to improve it much - we have tons of black and white birds over here and soft light really is a nessecity.
looking forward to more :)
Yes Wendell, that is when you should do most of your major changes, during RAW. Also I find if you have a very good pic to start with ( in camera) you almost have to do nothing or very little in camera raw. It saves you a whole pile of work.
Lance and Jackie, thanks for your clarification (funny how the shorthand of otherwise clear terminology about procedure is puzzling for a neophyte, isn't it) . . . and, yes, I am using the same "process routine" that you are, Jackie. So, I simply must try to do a better job while I still have the image in a RAW state.
Pretty boy
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