Here is a image of the bittern only this time it has feet. tried to lower contrast and color/hue. need to learn how to remove sticks. can the FG be fixed in PS? its very distracting.
Thanks for comments.
Love the look back pose, the feather details and the sharpness. You can try to use the clone tool to fix the FG (there probably a better way, which I want to know too) but it is best to move your position a bit to avoid the OOF FG when shooting if possible. I also might try to desaturate the environment a bit, so the bird is more stand out.
if you used the quick selection tool to select those bright areas in the fg, you could make a layer and duplicate it to tone it down. that might help. other than that, i'm not sure!!
The only solution for the bottom is cloning something into the light areas, don't think any PS magic could bring something back !!!
The PS work involved is advanced but fun to do, my best suggestion is looking at Robert O'tools CD and you will be able to pull it off. Once finished will look great and make a fine print, btw if posting something worked like that is always good to disclose !!! ... will be a good project !!!
Hi Craig
Please remember that I am hardly more than a PS novice, and all this work was done quickly - just to see what the possibilities might be for getting rid of the white areas in the foreground. All of this is done in Photoshop CS4. First I used the Patch Tool as much as possible. That worked pretty well - the grass textures helps - but left a pale areas particularly near the foot. I then tried some Burning to try to darken those remaining 'pale' areas. Mixed results on that. Not sure where the strange purples and blues are coming from - pushing something too hard.
I am not at all suggesting that this is the way to go, but it does suggest to me that you might actually be able to save the image. Another possibility if you have another image where this area of grass doesn't have the white blobs, you could layer the two images and use the grass in the second image.
Hi Gail thanks for the info. it helps very much. I am a very novice PSer. what you did looks pretty good.
I appreciate all the suggestions and perspective from the other members.
Thanks Craig.
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