2 came down for drink

[Gus Hallgren]

Hi Folks

2 Cedar Waxwings flew down from the top of the Arizona Ash in our garden alighting on the bird bath to leave an even 50 above. Sunny day yesterday and white adobe wall necessited sunglasses to see comfortably. That's the BG. Replaced background with a neutral white to get rid of shadows. I first changed backgound in color picker to a nuetral white from orignal. Then I File>new created a backgound same size a cropped image using background color. Then using Move (ctrl+V) I put image on top of new background. With a good color difference between birds and white wall I used Background eraser at an opacity of 50% and finishing with Eraser I revealed the new BG. Slight curves adjustment along with 3 Smart Sharpens at 27 amt finished off my project.

All CC's invited, needed and appreciated.

Uncle Gus

Olympus E-620, Zuiko 70-300 @ 600mm HH
AP . F/5.6, 1/2500s, ISO 100, 0.00eV, Auto WB

[Lance Peters]

Hi GUS - Like the high key look and feel - PP work looks good.
Might consider also getting rid of the shadow on the bath - as it sort of looks out of place now.

Might have gone for some more DOF - Had plenty of SS.
Like it - Good show :)

[Neil Cameron]

Works great Gus. The only nit I have is that some of your eraser work is still showing along the back of the rearmost Waxwing, and maybe under its vent as well. :)

Neil

[Gus Hallgren]

The only nit I have is that some of your eraser work is still showing along the back of the rearmost Waxwing, and maybe under its vent as well. :)

Hi Neil: Your absolutey correct, "Eagle Eyes" I took it to 300% and corrected original post.

Lance: Thanks for your comments, teach me to be more careful next time.

Appreciate both replies, good learning tools. :)

Uncle Gus

[Gus Cobos]

Hi Uncle Gus,
I love the capture and composition. Agree with Mr. Peters on the shadow...looking forward to your next one...:cool: