If I recall correctly, I was trying to "sneak" up on a kestral in that tree behind me---It was Joel that scared off all of the BirdsOriginally Posted by Steve U
I hope it is a bird caller, because it looks like he has frightened all the birds and other shooters off.
Or is this a picture of the early bird/Bob?. Speaking of Joel, I have been practicing some of his PhotoShop Techniques and am starting to get the hang of it---The hardest part is devoloping a discerning eye. Here is what I did on the image below.
Opened in LR3
Cropped
adjusted clipped highlights and blacks
took the image into CS%
removed a distracting branch using Content Aware Fill----I really like this tool
Selected the the background using the magic wand
inverted the selection
Used refine edge on the bird
Created an adjustment layer and adjusted levels/curves
used unsharp mask at 500% and 0.2 pixel (ran three times), but still not sharp enough, so I used smart sharpen once--this might have been an error
inverted the selection again so the background was selected
Used Gaussein blur filter and noise reduction filter
Saved back in LR3
Posted to zenfolio.
I still think the bird is soft, but that is probably because I started with a soft image that was focused more on the body than the head.
What do you guys think??
Her is another one---almost the same process:
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