Evening Junco
Hi,
I caught this Dark-eyed Junco in a rare (this winter) shaft of evening light. I had to clone away a large out of focus bush in the bottom R.hand corner, and clean up some compression artefacts. D300, jpeg fine, aperture priority, spot metered, Tamron 200-500, hand-held. Comments welcome.
Richard
Hi Richard,
you have got the little bird sharp in focus and with a nice "perch".
But it's a pitty, that there is no light (what a beautiful sunlight you have on the back) in her face....
Fully agree With good sun angle it would be incredible !!! I can see some halos at the bottom form the clean up activity Will download and try to work on the face The downside to this work is introducing noise
Looks like the light was from hard left !!! Do like the pose and good head position
Agree with what has been said..That is some incredible light!
Yep. It's been said. Lovely detail and low color temp. on the tiny bird. I too wondered if the Dodge Tool might rescue it.
eland
I was able to lighten the feathers a bit not much change Past this stage it will become a strange color/detail
For lightening I selected the bg with the magic wand tool Then inverted the selection and feather two pixels This prevents the halo
Thanks everyone, and very nice re-do, Alfred. Indeed the lighting was very low and from the left, leaving the head partly backlit and in shadow.
Richard
This is a beautiful bird but you summed it up well. Easier said than done sometimes eh? *lol*Originally Posted by Richard Stern
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