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"Flamingo" from Fort DeSoto
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Take the contrast button and move it two bumps to the right and the sat button about three bumps to the right.
Free software: Zoner Photo Studio or **** or Photoscape.................do it.
I've actually got both **** and Zoner. I used to use Zoner all the time but I've been pretty happy with Paint Shop Pro Ultimate with the NIK Photo effects plugin pack for the $39.00 I paid for it. I lack the attention span to use **** much.
Working on the bird go really easy on the contrast, if you went three as recommended then what you got was more vibrant colors but you also lost a ton of definition in the feathers, almost all the definition in the scales of the legs and the wrecked the birds eye, (you had a pupil and the catch light in the first one and now you have a solid black eye with the catch light in this one). Those "losses" take away from the fpicture, to me, rather than adding to them....
Try it with an islolation and adjustment on the bird only, (and if you want to really play isolate the eye only, open it up, bump the sat, and watch the entire look of the picture change), going really easy on the contrast.....
Steve
That's a lot to ask of a guy with the attention span of a bartlet pear like me.
I'll give it a try sometime...
I liked the first one better...before the adjustments...
Better?...
Steve
when i shoot birds i always go for focus on the eye....
the rest will follow...including AE...usually....
it's a good image with just a little too much apparent back light....
CS and elements will allow you to tuern down some of the back light pretty easy which is the only thing that keeps the image from being very good to really great...
but thats just me....
i just wish we had spoonbills up here like y'all do down there...
tim
The Real White Dog
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Canepole, yours looks good to me, the slight rotation and cropping out some of the vegetation made a big difference.
i believe you you hit it...
it was what i was trying to get across to Chuck....
just a simple adjustment to the background....
subtle yet still capturing the "eye"...
tim
The Real White Dog
if you can't catch a fish...catch a buzz....
#12976, joined 8-17-2002