I took this a couple days ago on a perch I set up. It goes with the theme, but too me the background is too bright. Mostly due to a harsh light here in the low desert, should have waited another 30 minutes or more before I called.
7D, 500 F4, ISO 500 F 5.6 1/3200
I tried to reduce the brightness in the backgrnd a little with color efex but it alluded me.
As always comments appreciated.
Stan I like the shot, I have a couple of suggestions:
1. I would reduce the brightness on the bird
2. Take a peek around the edges of bird, I can see noise, I assume this is due to sharpening or conversely where you did not apply NR to the background - maybe a bit of both?
3. You would be able to selectively sharpen/NR very effectively using the quick selection tool.
4. I suspect the red flowers are slightly oversaturated
5. I f you are unhappy with the background I would suggest you try desaturating the yellows there - (using quick mask or layer mask)
Hope this helps a little.
Nice components, but I find the exposure too hot for my taste (like my red heads head ), and agree with Jonathan's comments.
In ran a multiply layer set at 46% on the entire image via a luminosity layer, selective curves tweak with pointer on bird and pulled down curve, masked to bird only.
Selective color, magenta, pulled the magenta slider down to -60. Some detail lost to overexposure of that channel I think.
The bird does look oversharpened, and I do see the edge issues Jonathan pointed out.
You can do a better job on the raw file, but I think there is more potential in there.
The perch is still too bright and can be burned in a bit as well.
Cheers
Randy
Last edited by Randy Stout; 03-15-2012 at 12:08 PM.
Hi Stan, super alert pose from the little guy, and I like the perch. Not much else to add from the above comments, but I would also try a version with a little off the top.
Thanks guys, I reduced the brightness on the bird 12% and it looks much better. And Jonathan caught my sloppy NR, usually just use define and then create a layer and paint out the bird, need to be a little finer.
Thanks again.