Hi Maureen,
What a nice clean portrait of this RWBB. The blacks look a bit blue and it would be great to have them pop to accentuate the contrast in colors all around. I like the golden details in the upper back, head looks nice. TFS , Ann
I can't believe how great the images are here in ETL forum!
I think this is another great image. Wonderful pose, head angle and love that background!
I wish there was something to make the eye and blacks more exciting and to have more pop. But I don't know what that would be. Would using selective color for black and desat the blues and increase the black just a tiny bit, do it?
I like that much better, Maureen. If you tone down the yellow (and maybe the reds) in the shoulder, will you be able to bring out more feather details there?
Maureen, here is my favorite trick to get rid of casts when that particular colour is nowhere else in the image. In this case, the cast is blue, and blue is found nowhere else in the image...so watch this: completely desaturating the blue channel will get rid of the cast without affecting any other part of the image. Cool eh!
I also selectively burned the black plumage with a soft brush (0 hardness), range set "midtones", and exposure at 8%. Brush size about the width of half the thinner part of the tail. Oh, and also burned the pupil of the eye. Hope you like!
great job on the blacks here, Daniel! Thank you for describing how you did it!
You say this is your method when the cast color is nowhere else in the image. What do you do when the cast color IS somewhere else in the image? Mask it back in where you want it?
Yes, if there were other areas with some blue that I did not want to alter I would just select the subject, preferably with a quick mask, and do the same process on the selected area(s). In Maureen's image it was just a one-step easy process of desaturation without any masking.
Wow, I loved the original image and then after seeing Daniel's adjustments this image was really improved! The colors look much truer now, although I didn't see that at first!
The background is beautiful - very nice colors and blur which compliment the bird and how sharp you've captured it! Very nice exposure as well, and the composition is good.
Regards,
Kevin
Very nice repost, Daniel! I also like his greens as well - they don't need to be quite as saturated as what your repost was.
Beautiful HA and pose here Maureen. You're doing great! One thing I do to almost every image after I do the initial stuff in RAW is to open it in PS and hit auto levels or auto contrast buttons just to see what the program thinks is right. About half the time it's horrible and the other half of the time it really helps me see what needs to be done.
Red-winged Blackbird
Posting Permissions
