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    Redbilled Hornbill
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    Good picture of this bird showing much of the distinguishing features ... yet I find it looks a bit surreal ... the light or post-processing!?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Amano Samarpan View Post
    Good picture of this bird showing much of the distinguishing features ... yet I find it looks a bit surreal ... the light or post-processing!?

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    Thanks Amano

    Nothing other than the usual P/P curves/levels in CS5, it was early afternoon with nice dappled light under a huge Acacia.


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    Marc, this is beautiful. I love the mood created by the light, and the background is very nice as well.

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    Wonderful bird, wonderful painterly background. In a perfect world the end of the tail wouldn't be lost in the vegetation, but that's a minor nit.

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    Neat bird, cool perch, good comp. I'd tone down the whitest whites below the wing (near thigh). I like the two yellowish lines framing the subject. I'm not crazy about the BG in LRC...I'd try to blend that in a little for a smoother finish. Seems to be a bit of bluish cast to the plumage?

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    Hi Mark, we nick name these guys 'flying banana's' due to the shape of their beaks, I like the stately pose, and stands out nicely against the BG.

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    Love the bird and the pose and the head angle and wish only that the vegetation had not been there. For me "nice dappled light" is an oxymoron; the bright white sunlit patch of feathers on the near flank show why :)
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    Artie:

    I have seen a few dappled light images that I thought really worked well, but they all had the head/eye area in the light at least.

    Marc:

    I might consider a small crop from left and below to minimize the effect of the vegetation and mound a bit. I think you can even out the lighting on the bird with a little selective dodging and burning. What a bill!

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    Randy: send me a link to one :) Here the shaded WHITES have a BLUE cast and the sunlit WHITEs are detail-less even though they are not showing as over-exposed. I did a Linear Burn on them and they stayed whiter than white.
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    tricky light and tricky conditions. I think you did the best in this situation. The two brown branches are a bit distratcing for me

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    Artie:

    I do think this image can be improved by some work on the hotter areas. Agree about the color cast, but I feel that there is some detail to be had in the whites on the thigh. I reduced cyan in the whites in selective color to -35.
    Minor crop, multiply on selection on thigh at about 65%, slight smoothing of luminosity with dodging tool. Reduced the yellow channel to downplay the yellow stripes in background.

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    You did much better than I did :) Way to go. I think that it was the CYAN that did the trick.
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