I like this image very much. Agree with Robert on all counts. You might consider removing the rather heavy blue reflection on the back of the bird. I think that would make the image even better.
thanks guys, Levina - that is a good idea, I didn't really even notice it, but as soon as you pointed it out - wow, there is a dark blue shadow back there.
I tried lightening it a bit with an exposure brush in LR, but wasn't co-ordinated enough to do a good job - so I tried selecting the area in CS5, making a new layer of it and playing with selective color. that shows a little more promise, but still didn't get something good enough to post yet. will go look to see if i can find tutorials on how best to do it.
Hi Pat. Ever since Jules pointed out a blue reflection on one of my birds, I notice them immediately in my and other people's images. I'm sure you will too from now on! :)
I took the liberty of taking your image to PS and did a very quick edit to remove the blue.
I started like you with selecting the blue area and jumping it to a separate layer. But then I opened the fx menu, chose 'color overlay', took the opacity back to zero, clicked the colour picker box, took the eyedropper into the image, clicked on the bird, chosing carefully a representative colour, changed the blending mode to colour (sometimes hue works better, depends on the colours involved) and brought the opacity back up.
It's a great technique to solve local colour problems like this and if applied well, it works beautifully. And you can modify all you like and use a mask.
that is a wonderful lesson! I'll copy that and add it to my collection of post processing fixes. Thank you so very much! Can't wait to get home and try it out myself.
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