I was cleaning up LR and came across this file from March. There were a few other ducks in photo and an overlap with one of them. Thanks to some prompts from a few others on this site I now use the clone tool.
What technical feedback would you like if any?
Because of the amount of cloning required on this photo I am wondering if it makes a difference if I do most of adjustments on a RAW file vs a TIFF file?
What artistic feedback would you like if any?
ANY
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(If backgrounds have been removed, etc. please be honest with your techniques to help others learn)
Photo is cropped to 57% of full width. 7DII, 500mm, f/4, 1/1000, ISO400
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Hi David
Well for the second time today I get to see a bird I have never seen before, thank you David. The Northern Shoveler looks great. The action, coloring and overall detail is right on. As for cloning, I do very little of it in DxO PhotoLab. I would think a TIFF file would be vary large and hard to work with.
Nice work.
Peter
You caught a great pose and the light on the wings is wonderful! I’d consider a crop from the top about halfway to the head – nothing there to balance the bottom areas. Did you try bringing out more detail in the darks? Cloning is such a wonderful tool – and cloning at partial opacity is a great way to minimize some distractions.
Thanks Peter and Jim and @Diane_Miller I had thought about a bit off the top and decided against it. Leaving the space seemed to give the duck a bit more room.
