Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/15

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Silk Purse
From: lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll Querol)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:21:22 +0100
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Doug,

I can't help you, I have no idea about layers etc..., for me the three  
pitures are very nice, maybe the last version could be the better...

Cheers
Lluis


El 15/12/2009, a las 4:50, Doug Herr escribi?:

> With the cold rainy/snowy weather we've had lately I've had time to  
> go back to older photos to see what I could make of them.  I've  
> learned a bit about photoshop in the last few years thanks to many  
> on these lists so I'm trying to improve on photos that didn't quite  
> do it for me the first time around.  This is probably old hat to  
> many of you but bear with me, I'm learning this stuff.
>
> The photo I've been working on this last week is a Western Bluebird,  
> photographed locally in March 2007.  The bird was in the deep shade  
> of an oak forest, the only light on the bird was sunlight filtered  
> through the forest canopy.  Very green.  Until this week I haven't  
> been satisfied with the color balance; with a good background color  
> that looks like oak forest, the bird's colors are way off.  With the  
> color balance adjusted for the bird, the background looks like crap:
>
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/temp/webl06bg.jpg
>
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/temp/webl06fg.jpg
>
> Previously I tried to find a happy medium between these two, but the  
> medium I landed on was anything but happy.  For the last week or so  
> I've been working on another approach:  I split the photo into  
> foreground and background layers, applied separate color correction  
> to suit each layer, then combined them, erasing the background areas  
> from the foreground layer.  Here's the result:
>
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/turdidae/webl06.jpg
>
> Comments and suggested alternate approaches to this problem are  
> welcome (but keep in mind the most advanced software I have is PS6).
>
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>
>
>
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