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Description
This is the same bird, but in full song. The nest hole is just out of the frame. I had to do some major cleanup of assorted dark OOF sticks and dark blobs of OOF marsh hummocks in the BG. Because the bird’s outline is so crip, I was able to do some selection for removing the stick that was going behind the bird’s head. -2EV fill flash perked up the shadows a bit,.
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This is fairly close to becoming a high key image. I decided to leave some of the darker BG elements and some OOF grasses near the tail of the warbler. How do you feel about this?
Technical Details
Z9 180-400mm f4 + 1.4 TC -2.0ev fill. Levels, BG repair using inverse selection, rubber stamp tool, and bandage tool…Jim
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Very well done, Jim. I love the singing pose and you did a great job cleaning up the background.
I like the singing pose, Jim, and again excellent detail and color rendition in the warbler. The background works. For me, the perch seems to draw a bit more of my attention than I would like-maybe a slight crop off the bottom and removing the part on the right side sticking up?
Hi Jim
Here I think the fill flash help with bring out the Warbler’s eye and feather detail.
Peter
Wonderful pose of this spring singer! Your cleanup worked well. I’m wondering how a darker and shorter perch would work? That might set off the great colours even better.
Fine work, Jim -
Hi Jim, wonderful singing pose and nice rendition of the yellows. I could see darkening the perch some. Well done.
Beautiful singing warbler, Jim. Great pose with beak open and a decent head position. Good sharp details too. I find the perch a little bit distracting and some of the blotches in the background in the sky. I think this would actually work well as a high key image and getting rid of all the background distractions would make the bird stand out a bit more. Of course leaving some of the OOF dark patches gives the image a sense that there is some foliage in the backdrop and frames the bird a little bit. The light on the bird is a tiny bit flat and the perch is a tiny bit bright so I hope you don’t mind but I took this into LR very quickly and cleaned up the background (you can do a better job than I did if you take more time than I did and also added some dodging and burning to the warbler, particularly the head, the wing and the brighter yellow area under the wing).
Here is my quick take:
