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Originally posted by wuapinmon View PostDude,
That shot 9 of 36, of the snake, is awesome!
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Originally posted by swampfrog View PostCouldn't remember if I had previously shared that one before. I've learned a lot about post processing since this image was produced. I think I may go back and see what else I can get out of it (since it's significantly cropped down from the original). It's one of my favorites, with the snake obviously distressed and the heron just business as usual.
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Originally posted by swampfrog View PostI think I may have overdone the sharpening in some areas, will probably take one more shot at it. The snake came out much better.
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Originally posted by swampfrog View PostI think I may have overdone the sharpening in some areas, will probably take one more shot at it. The snake came out much better.
"Yeah, but never trust a Ph.D who has an MBA as well. The PhD symbolizes intelligence and discipline. The MBA symbolizes lust for power." -- Katy Lied
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Originally posted by clackamascoug View PostIt's like "where's waldo." Trying to find the differences between the two.
There's not a whole lot that is actually different, most of it is pretty subtle. In Photoshop there is a tool to select any clearly defined object in the picture. I selected just the bird and snake. I then ran a process to sharpen just what was selected. It worked great on the snake and most of the head, but some of the feathers look overly "baked" for lack of a better term. I'll likely reprocess and run different parameters on the head and snake than on the body/feathers.
Once I have the bird and snake selected, I also asked Photoshop to invert the selection, which gives me just the background (everything but the bird and snake). I then used a blur tool to soften it even more. I toned down the overall brightness of just the brightest areas of the background also.
The last thing I did was a bit trickier, and that was to remove the really light piece of brown grass around the snake's head. If you look carefully, you'll notice just down and to the left of the head is a wider piece of green grass that was replicated in place of brown grass around the head. I was pleased at how that came out.
You will find that a lot of (if not most) photographers use similar editing. In this case it's about the snake, and anything that distracts is subject to modification.
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Originally posted by swampfrog View PostFemale Wood Duck"There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
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Originally posted by swampfrog View PostNice, if you have the software, rotate counter-clockwise until the far shoreline is horizontal. Love the tree."Yeah, but never trust a Ph.D who has an MBA as well. The PhD symbolizes intelligence and discipline. The MBA symbolizes lust for power." -- Katy Lied
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