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CC Please....The hawk has some haloing due I guess to the over exposure on the left side which I'm still working on...Thanks for looking.







Aug 13, 2015 at 05:30 PM
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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Bird of Prey rework..


This bald eagle looks pretty good. I would tone down that pinkish thing at the right side. Some of the dark feathers in the head tell me this is still a juvenile about one year away from full adulthood. I am starting to see some texture in the dark feathers, they can be difficult to get.


Aug 13, 2015 at 06:51 PM
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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Bird of Prey rework..


Better...?? I'm seeing smudges that I don't see in Lightroom...








Aug 14, 2015 at 01:14 AM
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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Bird of Prey rework..


You've gone a tad far and cloned some feathers away, oops.

My eye also expects his beak to be vertical up and down. There's no horizon as a reference in this picture, maybe try a little rotation?



Aug 14, 2015 at 02:02 AM
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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Bird of Prey rework..


I'm cool with the angle as-is.

Hope you don't mind a quick little rework.

Tightened the crop, removed the blue/cyan casts, brought up the eyes some, cloned the bit of yellow from the left eye and applied an unsharp mask.

Nice bird! Shame his eyes weren't lit better.

Cheers,

Jeff







Aug 14, 2015 at 07:08 AM
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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Bird of Prey rework..


mxwizard1 wrote:
CC Please....The hawk has some haloing due I guess to the over exposure on the left side which I'm still working on...Thanks for looking.


See if you like my improvements. If not just delete it.
Selectively lit and sharpened eyes
Applied classical soft focus on the feathers









Aug 16, 2015 at 09:13 AM
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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Bird of Prey rework..


Took a stab at a few things.

Looks like some rogue cross / mixed lighting and picking up some color reflections. Torn about how much to adjust / leave. Took a bit to figure out some aspects to my liking in the body feather color / lighting, but here's some tweaks (and needs better clone work).







Aug 16, 2015 at 06:32 PM
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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Bird of Prey rework..


Now that I'm looking at things on a proper monitor I think I prefer the color in Kent's rework.


Aug 16, 2015 at 08:22 PM
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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · Bird of Prey rework..


Wow....Kent's looks like a fine art painting.....I appreciate everyone's points of view...Well done....I spent the last 2 days playing with my Sigma 105 macro, so fair warning on those being posted here....

I'm slowly coming to the understanding that my next big step is going to be working on and understanding the software I have for processing my images...I'm now sure how far I will go with that as I have many other projects that take up my time......I'm retired almost 1 1\2 years and I'm finding time getting harder to find......Go figure... But I did here this would happen...

Great work everyone and thanks.....



Aug 16, 2015 at 08:43 PM





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