My First Post, My First Posted Picture

[mohmike]

New Digital Rebel. Snapped of a picture of a duck this afternoon.

Tamron Telephoto AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di Lens

http://www.pbase.com/image/25045741.duck.jpg

[CyberDyneSystems]

A handsome mallard! :)

If you don't mind me saying,. I think you brought the fuzzy white edge treatment a little to close to the subject..

Welcome to the Forum! Be sure to post more whaen you can :wink:

[mohmike]

I agree, got a little carried away with the feather treatment.

Oops, excuse the pun! :lol:

[G3]

Nice shot. I think a little fill-flash would have worked wonders for this image.

[mvrekum]

G3 hit the spot. The sunlight is comming from the back leaving the front of the duck in the shadow. A fill flash would have lightened up the front. Also, forget the feather treatment :)

[martcol]

I like your duck image. I agree with the fill-flash bit - it would have brought out a lot more detail in the image. I have had a little tweak in photoshop and hope you don't mind. (sorry about the watermark in the image, I don't know how to turn that off.

Anyway, the PS work was a bit of a curves adujustment to bring up the shadow using an adjustment layer with a layer mask so only the front part of the bird was affected. Then I copied the layer and used Hard Light blending mode reducing the opacity right down. This puts a little more punch back into the image after the curves adjustment. I also desaturated a little. I like the colours in the duck but the beak and feet seemed a tad too bright. Anyway, honest, that was just a couple of seconds work in PS. All I was trying to do was recover some of the shadow detail. Nice detail, lovely colour.

Well done momike.

Thanks

martin


http://images.fotopic.net/?id=2367777&outx=600&oq=0

[mohmike]

Yes, I see what you mean!

Great suggestion. I appreciate your comments.