Birdy Sunset

[kostas nianiopoulos]

An image from the garden . i tooks a lot work of clone as the frame was full of those branches .
crop,( large one about 60-70%) , photo filters ( the sky was gray ) , clone tool .

canon 50d , 1/8192 , f5,7 , 200mm , iso 800 .

thanks for watching .

[Bill Dix]

I like it. Pretty tough to get rid of the halo around the bird, short of carefully going around the entire perimeter with a 3px clone tool, although that would sharpen the image up a bit.

[Lance Peters]

Hi Kostas - Bg looks a little noisy - like the colours and the idea.
IMHO - Bird needs to be darker to give it more POP. Id selectively darken the bird - run NR on the BG and in regards to the halo...

Try
Duplicate the layer - change blending mode to darken - clone over the HALO - should not change the darker areas.
TFS

[kostas nianiopoulos]

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ok , i have done what Lance said , plus i have add one maltiply layer , i hope it looks a bit better now .. let me know please .

[Jeff Cashdollar]

Looking good, love the bird tall in the frame and the colors. Wish tail feathers did not merge with branches but we can't always get them to cooperate - nice one.

[kostas nianiopoulos]

thank u Jeff , thanks u let me know ...