Indian Roller (Jv)

[Harshad Barve]

Dear All
Made this with D300, 600mm, ISO 200, F5.6 1/250
all C & C are most welcome and much appreciated

Harshad

[Harshad Barve]

Help in smoothing out BG and toning it down is much appreciated . Would love to know workflow

[David Fletcher]

Pretty awesome pose and head angle Harshad. Killer bg. Tickle of some selective sharpening on the head and you have a masterpiece. Producing some good work. Well done bhai.

[Doug Brown]

I very much like the pose, eye contact, and BG. I do agree that the BG could be toned down and that the bird could stand some additional sharpening. Here's a repost in which I did the following:
1. Selected the bird and copied it to its own layer.
2. Created a hue/saturation adjustment layer underneath the layer I just created and decreased lightness to -13 and saturation to -5 on the master channel.
3. Sharpened the bird some.
How do you like it?

[Harshad Barve]

Doug Fantastic repost , I have played with this for so much of time
Thanks a ton for fabulous repost
TFS

[denise ippolito]

Harshad, Nice image and Doug's repost really makes it pop. Beautiful bird and BG -TFS

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the pose, angle and BG. The sharpened version looks better although I'm not sure where the critical focus is.

[Rohan Kamath]

loved peters repost...thanks for sharing the detailed workflow...really helped... just a small question.. how did you erase the sharpening from the perch in the end??

[Ramon M. Casares]

Yeap, the first Repost looks better IMO.
Nice pose, BG, detail, colors and species.
Congratualitons!