Dear all
Made this with D300, 600mm, ISO 640 at 1/50 , tripod
Big branch cloned out
All C & C are most welcome and appreciated
Harshad
PS : would love to know about cloning job on BG
Dear all
Made this with D300, 600mm, ISO 640 at 1/50 , tripod
Big branch cloned out
All C & C are most welcome and appreciated
Harshad
PS : would love to know about cloning job on BG
Harshad:
Wild pose on this guy. Makes my neck sore to look at it.
Well exposed, pretty sharp. The background didn't scream out at me that you had cloned something, which means you did a good job. Might be fun to post the original to see what you had to work with.
I think I can tell where the clone work was, but again, it didn't jump out at me before you mentioned it.
Cheers
Randy
Harshad, love the awkward head angle and the birds colors. BG looks good but I do see some cloning artifacts closely around the bird. Should be an easy fix as I had to look really close to find it. Congrats
Brian
Wow... What a pose. That looks like it should hurt. I don't see any really obvious issues with cloning on the background.
Ouch, that looks painful! Nice job with the colors and details on bird. I might crop out some of the top. I do see a couple cloning edges above and to the right of the bird's head, but only saw them because I was specifically looking for them!
Such a beautiful bird Harshad excellent detail and colors I really like the pose captured as this bird hunts for insects. Well Done!
Nice natural moment captured Bhai, Cant really make out the cloneing here, congrats..
A very unusual pose to be pecking or looking for ants. I would maybe bring in from the right, as there is too much space. There are cloning marks visible just to the right of the beak. If you did any other work, you covered it very well. Well done.
apart from what all says bout cloning. i found that a bit of higher DOF may have resulted very nice on entire bird. also the green stick and leaf on top left is bit distracting to me if you can easily clone the tree area over that. my 2 paisa.
Love the pose Harshad. Tack sharp where it needs to be. No issues with cloning marks. (one about 1.5" to the right of beak as mentioned. Little tickle will fix that). Nicely done and thanks for sharing.
Harshad I love the pose and the colour on the birds back. I've watched a lot of woodpeckers here and I don't recall any getting into this type of position.
Love the unique pose with the matching killer head angle. EXP and SH perfect. My biggest problem is with what looks like a cut off branch....
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love the pose Harshad....so very unusual.
May I suggest adjusting opacity on a large soft brush doing bg clone work.
But you have done well here IMO.
This repost is out of the box, but a fun play.....Topaz ReMask and a heavy blur of
original bg and a slight gradient
Fantastic repost Dave
TFS
I like the pose. Agree that the cloning job behind the head is evident. The blacks have lost details. You may recover that during pp. I wish the bird had chosen a spot a few inches below the present spot, so that you could have avoided the cut branch. However, nothing takes away from the fine pose or shall I say acrobatic display.
Cheers,
Sabyasachi
I am not seeing the obvious clone job behind the head at all....
Starting with Dave's excellent repost I came up with my own repost that addressed other issues that were mentioned.
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Harshad-bhai, Was this a totally natural situation or did you have some sort of suet or peanut butter on the branch to attract this guy? (There was something on the bill near the end....)
I used a series of flopped and warped Quick Masks as described in APTATS to cover the scar or the cut branch and most of the leaves.
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Last edited by Harshad Barve; 10-10-2009 at 07:42 AM.
No doubts. Just curious. Who the heck took an ax to that branch??? (In addition to the cut off branch there was other evidence of work with an ax or a saw....)
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Guruji
may be to clear road block
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