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Different lighting, or maybe it was a relative, I should have asked.
I like this green heron quite a bit Jeff. The only thing that nags me a bit is the color of the water. Maybe just de-saturate it or change the hue a tiny bit IMHO would make it a winner.
Marcel, thanks for your suggestion. Take a look at the gator photo a couple of posts before this one. This is at the same pond and that is actually the color the water is with the reflections of the trees all around the little pond and the way the sunlight hits the water.
I understand that it probably is the color of the water, but a bit less yellow-green would make the shot look better IMHO. I just wonder if you did try to change the water tint and saturation.
I had to figure out how to change the photo. Does this look any better? If you want to change it and re post the photo be my guest. Photoshop is not one of my strong points!
Here's my take on it. I really don't want to intrude Jeff, and I know that it's just my personal taste here so take everything I write with a grain of salt if you want to.
Here's what I did:
opened the photo in Photoshop, used a "saturation" adjustment layer, reduced the saturation a bit then clicked on the "yellow" adjustment, reduced that a bit more and changed the hue slightly. Then I went in the mask area of the adjustment, used a black brush and painted over the heron so that it would not be affected by my saturation adjustment.
Then I did the same with the "Levels" adjustment layer. reduced the contrast a bit and opened up the blacks.
After that, I reduced the opacity of both adjustment layers to reduce the effects I had just made.
Hope this helps.
Very nice shot that I'd be glad to hang on my wall.
Here's what I did:
opened the photo in Photoshop, used a "saturation" adjustment layer, reduced the saturation a bit then clicked on the "yellow" adjustment, reduced that a bit more and changed the hue slightly. Then I went in the mask area of the adjustment, used a black brush and painted over the heron so that it would not be affected by my saturation adjustment.
Then I did the same with the "Levels" adjustment layer. reduced the contrast a bit and opened up the blacks.
After that, I reduced the opacity of both adjustment layers to reduce the effects I had just made.
Hope this helps.
Very nice shot that I'd be glad to hang on my wall.
Thanks for the explanation. I'm always interested in learning. Appreciate your help!
I shot this image tonight handheld with my Tamron 150-600mm lens on my Nikon D7000, This has not been cropped. This is the Isle Casino in Biloxi, Ms. shot from across the bay distance from me to subject was about five miles. I just noticed that I shot this at 1/60 sec
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