thanks Karen
your post-processing suggestion and skills are always helpful
I will see what I can do, playing with Viveza and control points, although I do have CS4.
I like the strategy you illustrated.
Excellent captures @ what must have been a sight to see in person. For me, they seem a bit HDR-ish or crayon/overcooked ... originals? I might look at using saturation variance to help guide your viewer a bit to where you want them to go.
As to the environmental view ... I think it adds credence to the naturalness of the image, but the sat levels kinda contradict that vibe for me. Imo, the busy-ness isn't as much of an issue as the color pulling us away to the expanse of attention getting green.
Excellent captures @ what must have been a sight to see in person. For me, they seem a bit HDR-ish or crayon/overcooked ... originals? I might look at using saturation variance to help guide your viewer a bit to where you want them to go.
As to the environmental view ... I think it adds credence to the naturalness of the image, but the sat levels kinda contradict that vibe for me. Imo, the busy-ness isn't as much of an issue as the color pulling us away to the expanse of attention getting green.
Thx Kent.
Not sure I see the HDR-ish part. Can you better describe it?
I do think the saturation needs to be knocked down a bit, although all I did was add a bit of vibrance and predominantly recovery, exposure adjustments, sharpening.
Yeah, the ooc's look pretty much the same, so I guess it is just he DR of the scene and the "thick" lines of the young plumage that is throwing me off. Maybe the vibrance, not sure ... just "something" and HDR-ish was the best (not necessarily good) way I could describe it. Probably just a me thing.
