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Great look. Nice pose, good colors and detail on the bird and the interesting perch (marred slightly by the baited/pecked area). To me the plumage detail looks good and sharp without looking crunchy. Would be interested to know about your "new" regime. The eye looks a little funky to me.
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Originally Posted by
Bill Dix
Great look. Nice pose, good colors and detail on the bird and the interesting perch (marred slightly by the baited/pecked area). To me the plumage detail looks good and sharp without looking crunchy. Would be interested to know about your "new" regime. The eye looks a little funky to me.
Hi Bill thanks for the feedback, glad you were happy with the plumage, I will PM you with the details, I don't want to appear to be advertising, the method is not mine but having read the instructions I made an Action and set the opacity to about 10%
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Jonathan, I like this one lots. The detail on the bird looks excellent to me as does the perch detail. Hopefully you will provide the processing details more publicly in due course? Background is perfect and the overall colour, tone and look of the frame are great. One I'd be very proud to have in my collection. Thanks for sharing.
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I think the processing looks fine. It is hard to comment on "the new way" vs "your old way" without you posting the same image with each process.
I think the eye looks a bit odd ( perhaps it is the nictitating membrane but I don't think so)
I really like the perch and the visible tongue. It is too bad that some of the perch has been broken off or pecked off by the bird but certainly not a deal breaker!
I really like the BG but when I first opened the image my eye was immediately drawn to the white area below the perch. I would blend and soften the edges of that whitish strip.
Anyway, I hope you post this image with your old processing method so I can see the difference,
Gail
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Nice woodpecker. I also would like to see old method result to be able to see the difference. Do you have a little bit more of the bottom of the frame? I would prefer to have woodpecker higher in the frame.
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Hi Jon, I have looked at both images several times, even imported them into Lightroom so I could study them side by side. The differences are subtle, nothing jumps out like an a hah moment. I guess I would go with whichever is easier to do in the workflow. In Lightroom now I probably use the simplest workflow possible.
Been there done that with eyeglasses. I wear progressive lenses and have bent the nose pieces a couple of times, a struggle to get them back to the correct position.
Joe Przybyla
"Sometimes I do get to places just as God is ready to have somebody click the shutter"... Ansel Adams
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Originally Posted by
Joseph Przybyla
Hi Jon, I have looked at both images several times, even imported them into Lightroom so I could study them side by side. The differences are subtle, nothing jumps out like an a hah moment. I guess I would go with whichever is easier to do in the workflow. In Lightroom now I probably use the simplest workflow possible.
Been there done that with eyeglasses. I wear progressive lenses and have bent the nose pieces a couple of times, a struggle to get them back to the correct position.
Thanks Jo, the reason for my investigating the alternative details action is so that I will have something when Nik filters is no longer available for use. For the PC I use reading glasses, the varifocals are for general use.
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I can't pick a lot of difference either, Jon. Can you outline what your old workflow involves particularly in relation to detail preservation and handling as I didn't think Nik was supported in the latest version of PS CC?
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Lovely frame of him Jon, and a different pose as well instead of the more regular vertical shots. The tongue is a nice touch, and now Gail mentions the white patch its caught my eye too!
Mike
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Mike I made several versions and in most I got rid of the white area obviously forgot in this one..... senior moment I reckon
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Hi Jon, I would eventually get to this image. Great IQ overall, and captured in nice soft light. I like the behaviour showing the Woodpecker at work, and with his beak full of bark, and that we also have a glimpse of his tongue. I do like the linchen covered perch.