a day at the La Zoo

[down_shift13]

just wanted to share some photo's i took at the La Zoo plus a little bit of photoshop. let me know what you guys think? :)

[retro]

Great photos. I like.

[JeffreyP]

Great shot on both! I like the second one especially. How did you do the color/b&W effect? I know it may be complicated, is there a tutorial out there on PS that can get me started on this?

[V6GTO]

JeffreyP,
See this thread...
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=58777

Martin.

[foxbat]

That second one's a mandarin duck, we have those here in England too. Here's a shot taken yesterday of one in the wild while I was testing the new 400mm f/5.6L.

I guess it works :)

http://www.aprd31.dsl.pipex.com/nature/ducks/mandarin.jpg

[JeffreyP]

Thank you! I gave it a try and it works nicely. Seems like you need an optical mouse ( I have a ball mouse) to keep the brush steady enough to follow an edge?

I'm trying to "colorize" just my daughter, and there are "whisps" of her hair I cant seems to get colorized without doing some of the background.

Any advice? Some different king of brush which is more forgiving?

Thanks for the help, I appreciate it!

Jeff

[V6GTO]

Thank you! I gave it a try and it works nicely. Seems like you need an optical mouse ( I have a ball mouse) to keep the brush steady enough to follow an edge?

I'm trying to "colorize" just my daughter, and there are "whisps" of her hair I cant seems to get colorized without doing some of the background.

Any advice? Some different king of brush which is more forgiving?

Thanks for the help, I appreciate it!

Jeff

Jeff,
Zoom in real close and use as fine a brush as you need, right down to 1 pixel if you have to.
Another tip for when you are zoomed in...if you push the pause button a hand will appear as the cursor, you can now left click and hold to drag the picture along.
Hope that helps,

Martin.

[down_shift13]

thanks guys! i didnt know that was a madarin duck! but i like the colors of the feathers! my photo is not actually in the wild as you can see from one of the legs that he has an orange tie strap, i guess thats how the zoo tags them.

as to how it was done i just masked the duck and did an invert selection and turned it to b&w using channel mixer. its good to know other methods! :)

[Fer]

Nice!!!!!!

[thomascanty]

Awww... I love the first one! I have a few dozen shots of the same Mandarin Duck you got in the second shot.

[Nascar Nut]

I like the second shot. I am going to give that effect a try.