From: Walter Gilbert
I think maybe I'll just take another picture.
On 8/15/2010 11:14 PM, Joseph McAllister wrote:
All that you may do to make the bokeh and bright background more to
your liking doesn't take away from the fact that the subject is
leading your eye out of the frame. That's
I gave that a shot last night, but the results were less than
stellar. It's a fairly severe crop as-is, and I'll have to resize it
down to a pretty small image to make it look half-decent. I think I'll
just have to make this one an ongoing project to return to from time to
time. Right now,
Hi all,
Just wanted to post an image and get some quick advice on it. It's one
of my favorites of all that I've taken, but there's something about it
that almost ruins the shot for me: the bokeh.
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Subject: PESO: Eastern Bluebird - Male
Hi all,
Just wanted to post an image and get some quick advice on it. It's one of my
favorites of all that I've taken, but there's something about it that almost
ruins the shot for me
Brendan,
Thanks for the tip. I've needed to learn more about working with layers
for a while now. This seems like a good excuse to get started.
I've toyed with using graduated tint and soft focus a bit, and that
seems to help it somewhat. But, I can't seem to get the look right
without
, Walter Gilbert ldott...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Walter Gilbert ldott...@gmail.com
Subject: PESO: Eastern Bluebird - Male
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net
Date: Sunday, August 15, 2010, 10:30 AM
Hi all,
Just wanted to post an image and get some quick advice on
it. It's one of my
Hi Jack,
That's essentially what I was getting at. Not so much the bokeh, but
the lack thereof, I suppose. I was hoping to figure out a way to tone
down the background a bit without losing the vivid colors of the bird.
I think Brendan has given me the solution to that.
Best,
Walt
On
Use the PS color selector in the Enhance menu(?) Adjust: Hue/saturation.
Jack
--- On Sun, 8/15/10, Walter Gilbert ldott...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Walter Gilbert ldott...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: PESO: Eastern Bluebird - Male
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net
Date: Sunday, August 15
I'm just about there, I think. I lost a little detail in the bird,
but it's looking better.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/walt_gilbert/4894422841/lightbox/
On 8/15/2010 1:59 PM, Jack Davis wrote:
Use the PS color selector in the Enhance menu(?) Adjust: Hue/saturation.
Jack
--- On Sun,
I agree, the background does look better.
Jack
--- On Sun, 8/15/10, Walter Gilbert ldott...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Walter Gilbert ldott...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: PESO: Eastern Bluebird - Male
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net
Date: Sunday, August 15, 2010, 12:13 PM
I'm just
Well, now the bird's head has a dark halo around it, which I find distracting.
Oversharpening, or an artifact of layering?
Rick
http://photo.net/photos/RickW
--- On Sun, 8/15/10, Walter Gilbert ldott...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Walter Gilbert ldott...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: PESO: Eastern
Hi Rick,
In all likelihood, it's from over-sharpening. The original was
immensely noisy (at least to my eye), and when I did some noise
reduction, I of course lost some detail, which I tried to get back with
unsharp mask. I likely overdid it a bit. Don't know how much I'll be
able to
Make that a layer, paste it over the original in Photoshop use the
eraser tool with a soft edge pattern to allow the detail you want to
preserve to show through. It's a bit of work, not exactly automatic,
but I don't know of an easier way to accomplish your goal.
On 8/15/2010 3:13 PM,
Thanks, P.J.
I'll give that a shot. I'm an EXTREMELY inexperienced Photoshop user.
Only recently got a copy of 7.0 that a friend of mine had left over from
his camera shop that he closed down. I've been browsing through
tutorials left and right ever since. One of these days, I'm going to
--- On Sun, 8/15/10, Walter Gilbert ldott...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Rick,
In all likelihood, it's from over-sharpening. The
original was immensely noisy (at least to my eye), and when
I did some noise reduction, I of course lost some detail,
which I tried to get back with unsharp mask. I
From: Walter Gilbert
Hi Jack, That's essentially what I was getting at. Not so much the
bokeh, but the lack thereof, I suppose. I was hoping to figure out a
way to tone down the background a bit without losing the vivid colors
of the bird. I think Brendan has given me the solution to that.
That's definitely true ... the reason I had to do so much sharpening
to make the image somewhat presentable after the noise reduction.
Bluebirds have been my biggest challenge, and that's the reason I've
been so married to that shot. It took me a a whole lot of trying to get
one where the
All that you may do to make the bokeh and bright background more to
your liking doesn't take away from the fact that the subject is
leading your eye out of the frame. That's where it fails as far as
I'm concerned.
You could copy and clone the left 1/3 of the image out and paste it
with
I think maybe I'll just take another picture.
On 8/15/2010 11:14 PM, Joseph McAllister wrote:
All that you may do to make the bokeh and bright background more to
your liking doesn't take away from the fact that the subject is
leading your eye out of the frame. That's where it fails as far as
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