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<blockquote data-quote="Dangerspouse" data-source="post: 722721" data-attributes="member: 46690"><p>Wolf, do you do any post-processing? If so, you should try playing around with some of the tools to see what kind of variations you can make to the same picture. It can be very instructive, and help you quickly decide later how you may or may not want to compose future pictures (plus, it's just a helluva lot of fun). </p><p></p><p>Take this shot, for instance. I can see why you like it. The bird is more sharply focused than some of your others, and there's an overall soft effect that's quite pleasing. And shooting it through those branches gives it a distinct "feel". </p><p></p><p>But when you get a picture like this that you like, let your imagination kick in. Ask yourself how it might look if you cropped it differently, or intensified the contrast, or<em> lowered</em> the contrast, etc. There's not harm in manipulating a picture, even a good one, because you can always revert to the original with no harm done if you don't like the adjustments. And if you do like the adjustments, well, there you go. You improved on a picture you might not have thought you could, and maybe that will guide you when you take future pictures. It's a win/win!</p><p></p><p>For instance, I hope you don't mind but I gave a few tweaks to your picture here just to see. I'm at work and don't have access to my Lightroom program at home, which does an excellent job with this. But even the crummy default viewer on my work PC allows me to crop and do a few basic edits. It even has a "Spot Heal" function, which works horribly but I tried it nonetheless. </p><p></p><p>See what you think. This is your picture with the right side clutter cropped out, bringing the bird to a more prominent position in the frame. I straightened it just a bit so the feeder bars are vertical, and I slid the "Clarity" slider a smidge. I don't think it's necessarily a keeper, or any better than yours, but it was fun to see what the same picture could look like with just a few seconds worth of messing around:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]328565[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>One of the things I wanted to try was to erase the branch that bisected the bird's shoulder, out of sheer curiosity how that function worked in this program. It worked terribly, basically making the branch into more of a smudge. If you do have a program like Lightroom/Photoshop, it does a much better job. Here's a picture I shot of a cardinal that had the same thing - a branch across the chest. But with a few clicks of my mouse Lightroom erased it, and so it did not distract from what I thought was a great expression on the bird's face when it spotted me:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]328566[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>So yeah, give that a shot. Even if you like a picture, manipulate it in different ways just for grins and giggles. You might use it, you might not, but I guarantee you'll really start discovering things about composition this way.</p><p></p><p>:encouragement:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dangerspouse, post: 722721, member: 46690"] Wolf, do you do any post-processing? If so, you should try playing around with some of the tools to see what kind of variations you can make to the same picture. It can be very instructive, and help you quickly decide later how you may or may not want to compose future pictures (plus, it's just a helluva lot of fun). Take this shot, for instance. I can see why you like it. The bird is more sharply focused than some of your others, and there's an overall soft effect that's quite pleasing. And shooting it through those branches gives it a distinct "feel". But when you get a picture like this that you like, let your imagination kick in. Ask yourself how it might look if you cropped it differently, or intensified the contrast, or[I] lowered[/I] the contrast, etc. There's not harm in manipulating a picture, even a good one, because you can always revert to the original with no harm done if you don't like the adjustments. And if you do like the adjustments, well, there you go. You improved on a picture you might not have thought you could, and maybe that will guide you when you take future pictures. It's a win/win! For instance, I hope you don't mind but I gave a few tweaks to your picture here just to see. I'm at work and don't have access to my Lightroom program at home, which does an excellent job with this. But even the crummy default viewer on my work PC allows me to crop and do a few basic edits. It even has a "Spot Heal" function, which works horribly but I tried it nonetheless. See what you think. This is your picture with the right side clutter cropped out, bringing the bird to a more prominent position in the frame. I straightened it just a bit so the feeder bars are vertical, and I slid the "Clarity" slider a smidge. I don't think it's necessarily a keeper, or any better than yours, but it was fun to see what the same picture could look like with just a few seconds worth of messing around: [ATTACH=CONFIG]328565._xfImport[/ATTACH] One of the things I wanted to try was to erase the branch that bisected the bird's shoulder, out of sheer curiosity how that function worked in this program. It worked terribly, basically making the branch into more of a smudge. If you do have a program like Lightroom/Photoshop, it does a much better job. Here's a picture I shot of a cardinal that had the same thing - a branch across the chest. But with a few clicks of my mouse Lightroom erased it, and so it did not distract from what I thought was a great expression on the bird's face when it spotted me: [ATTACH=CONFIG]328566._xfImport[/ATTACH] So yeah, give that a shot. Even if you like a picture, manipulate it in different ways just for grins and giggles. You might use it, you might not, but I guarantee you'll really start discovering things about composition this way. :encouragement: [/QUOTE]
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