Adult Kea

[Ian McHenry]

The adult Kea does not have the yellow on the beak.
Pentax K10D & Tamron 70-300 @ 83mm.
400 ISO 1/350 @ F6.7 No EV adj.
Cropped from horizontal original.
Taken mid-summer about 3.30 pm.
Multi-segment metered.
Comments welcome.
Ian Mc

[Lana Hays]

Ian
You are doing a great job showing this "bad boy" off in your images. I don't know if you can tweak it a little but I'd like the bird a little lighter and the light rocks behind him toned down......at least on this monitor. The colors look good in this one. For where you shoot.....this is a very nice pose.

[Ian McHenry]

Thanks Lana
Wow you're really pushing my limited editing skills !!! ( Joke)
The only way I know how to darken backgrounds to date is with healing brush or cloning.
Image has been lightened for Kea and BG rocks cloned.
What do you think?

[Lana Hays]

Ian
That looks much better....I can tell what parts you cloned from but.....only because I'm looking since i know. You can select just the area that you want to tone down with the magic wand and then try to use the "burn" tool or some other tool to tone it down.

[Ian McHenry]

Thanks Lana
Magic Wand next on the agenda !!!
Cheers: Ian Mc

[James Salywoda]

Great job fixing the rock I wouldn't of known that you cloned it the reworked image looks very nice... Well Done!

[Ian McHenry]

Thanks James.
That's encouraging.
I'm just taking small steps in this large learning curve.

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Ian Tried the new PS plug in Vivenza on your bird Easy to control selectively then blurred the bg a tad !!!!

[Ian McHenry]

Lovely job Al.
Thanks for showing what can be done.
Bird really stands out with great colours.
Looks even more precocious !!!
Cheer4s: Ian Mc