Re: IMG: Silk Purse
- From: Steve Barbour <steve.barbour@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:55:32 -0800
On Dec 14, 2009, at 7:50 PM, 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).
very beautiful Doug,
subtle and sophisticated,
Steve
>
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>
>
>
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