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john-henry
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I think you've done a great job Dulce, a great improvement and a good clean picture. Only other improvements I can think of is a little more space in front of the bird and the background a little lighter so it 'pops' out at you more, but that's just my preference.
John P
Usually on a different wavelength
I agree with JH, the crop (if it's cropped ) is a little tight for me but the de-cluttering is a great job.
Is that a feather underneath the rump or some other artifact?.........and something's taken a bite out of the twig near the birds beak while you were working on it.
Is that a feather underneath the rump or some other artifact?.........and something's taken a bite out of the twig near the birds beak while you were working on it.
ammadoux
Registered doux
thanks for this John H, yes it is cropped but not much, he was very close to where i was hiding. guess will have another look at the original and take the bird a little bit away from the center.
LOL john you are so right and i also saw a bit of green under the birds left leg in between the feathers wonder what will i do with it. also it seems that i lost the claw on the right feet.
thanks so much for this really helpful.
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LOL john you are so right and i also saw a bit of green under the birds left leg in between the feathers wonder what will i do with it. also it seems that i lost the claw on the right feet.
thanks so much for this really helpful.
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For my eye it is all a bit stark, it screams out that the bird has been cut from the background. Which is fine if you are going to use it as such, for example with a transparent background as a graphic in a publication.
If your aim was to declutter the background so as to emphasise the bird, I would have just removed the prominent stalk on the right and the one behind the bird but left the background looking like out of focus undergrowth.
A few critiques on the mask, you have notched the twig the bird is on near the bill, you have lost a couple of toes and left what looks like a twig sticking out of its behind!
If your aim was to declutter the background so as to emphasise the bird, I would have just removed the prominent stalk on the right and the one behind the bird but left the background looking like out of focus undergrowth.
A few critiques on the mask, you have notched the twig the bird is on near the bill, you have lost a couple of toes and left what looks like a twig sticking out of its behind!
TheBirdGarden
I don't have the money
For me it looks like the bird has been cut out. I would have used gaussian blur to blur the BG just a little bit but still making out objects behind the bird but it is still a nice shot
Very fine image indeed, agree with Mono on this.
I like it still with the background in, I think what would be better is to remove the bird, then defocus the background, then put the bird back.
To get the image professionally perfect, you have to remove the bird from the background, clean up the background, then feather blur the image edge into the background using channel mask. It will take time this way.
You can cheat by selecting a suitable brush and using the blur tool to go around the edge.
Never Gaussian blur a background against an image you will just get a halo effect.
I like it still with the background in, I think what would be better is to remove the bird, then defocus the background, then put the bird back.
To get the image professionally perfect, you have to remove the bird from the background, clean up the background, then feather blur the image edge into the background using channel mask. It will take time this way.
You can cheat by selecting a suitable brush and using the blur tool to go around the edge.
Never Gaussian blur a background against an image you will just get a halo effect.
