Photo taken in deep shade with bright background resulting in a silhouette. I would like to be able to see the bird, but I get purple blotches on the chest, shoulder and throat and an outline and wondered if there is a way to correct the coloured blotches and outline? I used lightroom and Topaz for post processing. Your help would be appreciated.
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I downloaded your image and tried to work it in my raw processor - Capture One. I see the purple fringing on the outline. I was able to reduce it using the purple fringe tool, but not eliminate it. Frankly, your edit looks very good given the issues with the raw file. Sorry I couldn’t be more help.
Thank you David. Actually I had forgotten about the fringe tool and yes it does help. Thank you. The fringe, I can understand because of brightening the subject so much, but I don’t understand the purple blotchy areas and I don’t know if there is a way to remove them.
what impressed me about this is just how difficult it is to get anything from such a backlit shot!! bravo! So I don’t know what color the bird is supposed to be and I did a correction without looking at your edit. I was looking for something natural, meaning less blue feathers (I took a cue from the green leaves and made them green).
In Adobe Raw, I converted with no sharpening, Shadows +25
drop contrast with curve
then recipe in photoshop
Since this is pushed so hard, it could use some noise reduction IMHO. Also you can crop to taste, which I did not do (trivial). I kind of like the yellow feet!
