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Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 97 |
May 21 |
Comment |
I have taken many bird photos which have the same basic problem as yours. My lens was not long enough and the bird is a very small portion of the frame. So when I crop in and try to adjust it in LR, it loses a lot of the detail.
I have done monochrome conversion but it must be done for the right bird and the right photo. I think color works better for this one. I will attach one of a Black Necked Stilt that I took locally. I tried it in monochrome but it works better in color. |
May 16th |
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| 97 |
May 21 |
Reply |
Larry may be correct about the change of the contrast owing to the shift of the overall brightness. But I do suggest that you look out for another turkey and study it with your eyes. You might even use a binoculars to study its feathers. Perhaps your local turkeys do grow their feathers in a way that look not soft. Calibrate yourself so that when you edit it you do make it look like nature and not the way you wished nature had done it.
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May 16th |
| 97 |
May 21 |
Comment |
Dear Sophia,
You are an excellent photographer as I write to you last month. I have seen and photographed blue herons here in Northern California but I have never seen one eating. You are very lucky to follow this one until he found food.
However, the original shows the actual color of the blue heron. Your modified color in the edited version is not at all what the eye sees in nature. It is pretty and is lavender. Also flipping the image may make the art piece more appealing but it is not as it appeared in nature. This will win in color competitions but it should not be allowed in nature competitions. My club uses the PSA rules. You may crop and you may lighten the background but you cannot change the color to be different from what you actually saw with your eye. And flipping the image is not allowed nor is cloning nor healing brushes.
Last month you did not say anything about my comments on your excellent photo and you did not even look at mine nor comment. I fell and fractured a vertebra so I cannot sit long and submit this month.
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May 16th |
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