Work Flow:
LRII (small crop, desat reds) ---interface CS4 (change WB to daylight, Topaz noise reduction and image recovery, selective sharpen and blurred BG and perch a tad to put focus on subject)
Last edited by Jeff Cashdollar; 06-25-2009 at 06:01 AM.
beautiful bird and good light you have got Jeff
There is some problem i found with the post processing.
There is a thin border has been seen on the back of the bird. seems you have copied the bird to another layer and by mistake it got shift 1 or 2% left from original place. also the perch is got blurred so much.
BG is nice. and sharpness to the bird is also good
I did blur the perch some for effect (see workflow narrative), now I regret it, so it goes. Maybe the thin line you see is where I blurred the BG and did not blur the bird, I did it free hand and did not mask the subject, I did not copy the bird to another layer, maybe I should have.
Last edited by Jeff Cashdollar; 06-25-2009 at 07:47 AM.
I am on my monitor at work and do not see it, when I get home maybe the detail will surface. I will repost with the perch in a natural state, I do not like the soft look myself (bad ideal) and look into the other issue.
Last edited by Jeff Cashdollar; 06-25-2009 at 10:08 AM.
Mital, the edge looks more like a sharpening halo to me, as the bird is quite oversharpened. As for the image the HA could be better and the BG is a bit distracting.
The tiny line that Mital talks about is, most probably, due to the use of Gaussian blur without an adequate selection of the area that you wanted to blur (in this case, the BG). Prior to use Gaussian blur for the BG I duplicate the layer, select the bird and delete it. Then, I invert the selection and apply the Gaussian blur. Once that you have done that, you can deselect the BG and apply sharpenning on the original layer. The only thing to be done is merging both layers at that is all. The perch seems to show a lot of repetitive patterns from cloning job(?)
As I stated above, the blur was free hand and I will clean-up tonight and repost. Fabs has taught me the proper routine, I did not use it, thinking free hand would work, it did not. The blurred perch seemed like a good ideal at 10:00 pm last night, it was not. Looking at it now, makes me pause.
I think its a beautiful Cardinal.
Last edited by Jeff Cashdollar; 06-25-2009 at 03:39 PM.
Thank you for the adjustments to the image, I appreciate your help. I believe the OP-Cardinal is regal and beautiful. Pity, I did not do a better job capturing the moment. Your repost is good, might have too much saturation, as you know Cardinals usually require a (-) saturation. I dialed in a (-) 9 to start with, you might be pushing it with the repost. You are correct about the tail; it and the perch both weaken the image.
Last edited by Jeff Cashdollar; 06-25-2009 at 07:56 PM.
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