Activity for User 460 - Lisa Cuchara - photographer67@comcast.net

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41 May 24 Comment love the birds! The composite from the original is awesome. The diagonal adds to the composition and the final image has impact

To improve:
-- there is some brown in the area on the right branch in the blue
-- the birds have a slight cut out appearance, use the mi brush to blend them into the new background
-- the birds could use a LUT or color blend mode layer on top to tie it all together
May 30th
41 May 24 Comment Tom, I was hunting around to find you in there someowhere, like a "where's waldo". Nice departure from your normally dark tones.

The image has a fine art feel that is wonderful. The trees getting larger in succession work very well.

I do like Nadia's addition of the "atmospheric hills" but otherwise I could not think of much to improve it. This would look wonderful 40x30 in a hotel lobby.		 May 29th
41 May 24 Reply I like the "atmospheric hills" and I afgree, I almost missed the bord reflections May 29th
41 May 24 Comment I like the composite, works well. I would draken the bottom, and flip it so that the dirver to moving towards the bird, left to right May 29th
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44 May 24 Comment Good job with sowing seeds for the basre sport you have more to photograph in your yard.

The red is powerful, but red is hard becuase it clips so easily. Perhaps try the color mixer in ACR (LR develop) to bring dow the luminance and saturation a tad to let the red details pop in.

I am soooo jealous "Tomorrow three other photographers and I will travel 75 miles to Wendell, Idaho was thousands of cars, trucks, buses, motorcycles, buses are used for parts. It will be my 5th trip there." I sooo want to go with you!!!		 May 29th
44 May 24 Comment great subject matter, and editing. Now sure why the original was so red (just the Nik preset you chose), but you did a great job. Have you tried ACR for tone mapping, easy, yields a dng file and easy

The grunge works well here!
I would tone down the yellow/gold just a tad.
May 29th
44 May 24 Reply easily fixed May 29th
44 May 24 Comment great story and image. The pano looks well created (I love HDR panos).

It is well done. To improve:
I see two weird blue lines in the top sky
and the water on the right is a different color. I never use autoWB on panos or HDR b/c of this possibility...

Can't wait to see the slideshow of the entire process.

May 29th
44 May 24 Comment Great sunrise and sky.
Very dramatic image.

I find that LR usually creates a more natural rather than a grungy HDRy tone mapping, so I was surprised this has so much grunge. The rocks are a little too "HDRy" for my taste with the neon green on the right and the bright yellow on the left, I would tone doen those two areas.

To me the area in the distance after eetween the rocks and sky looks a little blue and washed out -- perhaps some dehaze and color blending here		 May 29th
44 May 24 Comment Makes you look longer!
The image itsse great texture and detail.
The footpath and the white in the sky really directs the viewer.
Neat 		May 29th
44 May 24 Comment nice pano, good sticthing and tone mapping

re:spots -- I was for a short time, nice image quality but cleaning the sensor before every shoot was tiresome and even then spots would appear. I had assumed that the dust spot issue was gone by now, sorry to hear those woes

I would edit the LR to unify the water and add more blue to the water since the sky is blue.		 May 29th
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46 May 24 Comment love the reflection
love the low angle

I like Xiao's removing the top lines and the brightening of the neck and eye
May 30th
46 May 24 Comment Good capture of two birds, This is more of an environment image.

You are faced with a short lens for birding, the lens Nikon 18.0 -105.0 mm is well smaller than what is used in birding, so you will have to learn patience, sit down and wait for birds to come to you. Move slowly and low to the ground and learn to read the bord so you can get closer. We have a workshop for shore birds and while 50% is settings the other 50% is learnng good field practices

Also think of story, the two birds help with story, but the camera anlge can be lower, think eye levle for birds, and the birds are heading away from you, try to wait for the birds to be profile at least		 May 30th
46 May 24 Comment wa fun bird. We had them in our hard this year for the first time, but hard to get a good photo of them.

wow, you really salvaged an underexposed image. Could you have llw your shutter speed inc amera to properly exposed? I know harder to do, easy to think about afterwards

Background, tree and bird are all well done in the edited version		 May 30th
46 May 24 Comment very sharp, well done
handheld?
I like the angle and crop as it makes it look very intimate, perhaps just a TAD (not too much) more nest for a sense of place/environment

I have not yet been to Blue Cypress Lake in Vera Beach. We had planned to go this April, but our trip got canceled. Were you on a boat? 		May 30th
46 May 24 Reply I agree about the peak-a-boo second bird! May 30th
46 May 24 Reply keep at it, that is why you are here :-)

Also watch out for mottled light -- not very becoming for most photos, including birds. Unfortunately birding will make you an early bird, like it or now, lol		 May 30th
46 May 24 Comment The bird is in focus. The background is a little busy. The diagonal branch that runs behind its head is esepcailly troubling. The brnach that itnerstects with tthe body of the bird is also distracting.

Try lens blur in ACR.
I also tried Nik

Please provide the original so we can see the editing		 May 30th
46 May 24 Reply True, the osprey here fish at the dam, so it is a manmade sturcture, not a natural background, but the action is great as there are often over a dozen osprey fishing and sometimes they catch 2-4 fish. I would not be able to enter this into a psa-nature rules compitition, but I could enter it into open as the story is there. May 30th
46 May 24 Reply Thank you Tom!

NECCC still exists, but the in person NECCC-C (photo conference) has been converted to a one day zoom seminars.
May 12th
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