Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Definitely you have learned! Impressive. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog On Dec 15, 2009, at 4:50 AM, Doug Herr wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >