Yellow Crowned Night Heron taken at Ding Darling
7D with 500L and 1.4 TC
3200 ISO
f6.3 1/1250
Slight luminance reduction overall in LR3 Beta
Bird was masked and a heavier NR done with Noiseware Pro to the background.
Yellow Crowned Night Heron
Yellow Crowned Night Heron taken at Ding Darling
7D with 500L and 1.4 TC
3200 ISO
f6.3 1/1250
Slight luminance reduction overall in LR3 Beta
Bird was masked and a heavier NR done with Noiseware Pro to the background.
exposure looks great to me. only the branch coming out of the top of it's head and feet are cut off. if you have it i would definitely loosen the crop. love those red eyes!!
I wish I had more of the leg, this is pretty much an uncropped version of
this photo.
As far as the branch.. it may a take a better cloner than me to do it
but I agree the branch does distract.
Hi Garry, Good advice given by Harold. Difficult to get a fairly clean image in environment and not get distractions. There are 3 areas which are distracting to me. The leaf in the upper left,branch coming out of the birds head and the white branch in the lower right.Good subject!
A good image of an interesting subject, although I agree with Harold's comments.Originally Posted by harold davis
Environmental complexity is common at Ding Darling and difficult to avoid. But for those of you who object to the adventitious branch stemming from the bird's head, I offer this cloned re-post.
Norm
Wow Norm, great cloning and the use of the word adventitious in one post, nice job!!
I have to admit, getting rid of the branch does make a positive change.
Hi Garry - looking good, sharp good HA and eye contact - pity about the feet.
Like norms repost - PP work looks good and does improve.
PS. - No better way to learn and too improve your own skills as what Norm has done here - working on someone elses image - reason being is that you have no emotional attachment to it and allows you to be more focused on what needs to be done.
Thanks Lance, I looked through all the shots and the feet were gone in all of them.
When I moved and went to vertical there was so much crappy background that
nothing could be salvaged.
Good point about working on someone else's photo. Appreciate the tip.
GG
For those interested in cloning objects such as the branch from images, the following suggestions may help:
(1) Greatly enlarge the critical areas by zooming in (400-500%).
(2) Choose a brush size that is not too large, so you don't damage detail you want to preserve.
(3) Sample pixels for cloning that are close to where you are working, so as to keep tonal continuity smooth.
(4) Make remaining elements in the image look as good as possible. In this case, the vertical yellow structure had to be reconstructed a bit in the area where the branch had been removed.
Norm
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