While looking for warblers yesterday, this Winter Wren came in and sat on this branch...it was almost like he was asking "please take my picture"...he stayed there for a few minutes not moving, took his photo but he was heavily in the shadows, so I used my camera flash to get some details...
D300
300 Nikon 2.8
1/250
f4.5
iso-800
camera flash
handheld
Paul, the shooting angle could be better and I think the bill merging with the perch is not the best but I love the sharpness, eye contact and the fantastic BG. Fill flash worked fine in my opinion. :-)
You did well with your flash Paul. These birds don't sit around for long so it's not always possible to alter your angle. But the beak merging with the perch is unfortunate. Love the green BG too.
Thank you Juan and Doug....made a change, cloned out top of branch...still looks ok? Angle could have been better but confined spot with lots of people made getting lower tough
Cloning marks are evident in the repost. Try blending with the Patch Tool after cloning. Even in the ORIG the bird has a cut out look... Good EXP and COMP. A bit over-SAT.
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On the photo of the Wren...you said it looked cutout...
> I masked the bird in the original, sharpened it, then Select, Inverse and
> reduced noise 10 on background...is that why it looked cutout? What
> level of NR do you use on a background?
>
> Thanks for all your help and comments
> Paul
Thanks for that info Paul. The reason is looks cut out--and I am not sure why nobody else mentioned it--has to do with what you did after you selected the bird and then inversed. Did you feather? Probably not, but there is a much better way to do it in CS-3: Refine Edge.
For NR on the BKGR I start with the default settings in Filter/Noise/Reduce Noise and adjust as needed checking how it looks by clicking Preview on and off.
Once you get back to me by letting me know if you did anything after the selection was made I promise that I will do a short tutorial in Educational Resources. Refine Edges allows you to determine how you want the edges to look and is a powerful tool.
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Ah, that is what I figured. I will write up something on Refine Edge, post it in Educational Resources (boy, I wish more folks would study the great stuff there), and post a link here ASAP.
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