I like this quite a bit for its graphic quality. Yes, the headangles are off, and I wish the bottom two birds didn't merge quite so much. The angled perch is great. I might try to smooth the background just a bit, get rid of some of the specular reflections. I also might consider darkening the transilluminated feathers on the top bird, so it is more consistent with the other two.
Randy, thx a lot for the suggestions. I shall try that.
On the HA front, it took me a while to get these HAs. The difficulty of getting right HAs increases exponentially with the number of birds :-) I also wish the bottom two to be separated better...but there was a fourth dude on top....hence the cramming at the bottom. He was messing the comp. and I waited until he flew away.
One way to reduce the impact of the head angles is to go all the way to a silhouette. And yes, I appreciate how hard it is to get all three in the right plane! Sometimes you can squeak at them and they will turn your way a bit, not always.
Thx Randy. If the birds are completely backlit, I usually go silhouette all the way. But in this, the way sun is shining on their backs and wings, going full shilhouette will need more PP than usual.....simple contrast/curves was not working. But I will try it again. thx again.
A quick way to preview the effect without much work if you use ACR is to advance the black slider to 45-50. No, not true full blown silhouettes, but gives you an idea if its worth the work to do it right.
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