I like your swan but I though it was de-emphasized because of the overexposed water. Here\'s my go at it:
1) IN camera raw dialogue: added a graduated filter top-down to remove some of the over-exposure. Cropped to bottom two-thirds of your photo because of distracting diagonal ripple at the top of the water (and to try to bring focus back to the subject). Reduced the aqua/blue/purples in the water color (HSL dialogue).
2) With image open in photoshop: created a new layer from the image, selected the swan with the magic selector wand. Opened levels and just brought the white-point to the left to meet the edge of the data in the histogram (this brought some white back into the bird).
3) Added some light behind the bird to set it off of the background a little more.
Hope you\'ll like the results. If you have the raw file you\'ll be able to do a much better job than me tweaking in camera raw.
I like your swan but I though it was de-emphasized because of the overexposed water. Here\'s my go at it:
1) IN camera raw dialogue: added a graduated filter top-down to remove some of the over-exposure. Cropped to bottom two-thirds of your photo because of distracting diagonal ripple at the top of the water (and to try to bring focus back to the subject). Reduced the aqua/blue/purples in the water color (HSL dialogue).
2) With image open in photoshop: created a new layer from the image, selected the swan with the magic selector wand. Opened levels and just brought the white-point to the left to meet the edge of the data in the histogram (this brought some white back into the bird).
3) Added some light behind the bird to set it off of the background a little more.
Hope you\'ll like the results. If you have the raw file you\'ll be able to do a much better job than me tweaking in camera raw.
I like your swan but I though it was de-emphasized because of the overexposed water. Here\'s my go at it:
1) IN camera raw dialogue: added a graduated filter top-down to remove some of the over-exposure. Cropped to bottom two-thirds of your photo because of distracting diagonal ripple at the top of the water (and to try to bring focus back to the subject). Reduced the aqua/blue/purples in the water color (HSL dialogue).
2) With image open in photoshop: created a new layer from the image, selected the swan with the magic selector wand. Opened levels and just brought the white-point to the left to meet the edge of the data in the histogram (this brought some white back into the bird).
3) Added some light behind the bird to set it off of the background a little more.
Hope you\'ll like the results. If you have the raw file you\'ll be able to do a much better job than me tweaking in camera raw.
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Dec 05, 2008 at 09:39 PM
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