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Folkeye — Smiling Ferruginous Hawk
Published: 2014-02-16 21:09:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 947; Favourites: 32; Downloads: 1
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The lighting was not in my favor, but I still managed to get it to smile nicely for the camera.
A gorgeous ferruginous hawk. This is the largest hawk here in America
Edit: Image has been edited to adjust contrast and add some color to the sky to break up the white.
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A nice capture, but it might look better with some post processing. Just IMHO. ^_^
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I lightened it up a bit and did some minor sharpening. Outside that, doing processing is a weakness of mine and not something I have much experience with.
Do you have any suggestions for this one? I have Photoshop CS5 I think.
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Up the contrast a tad, increase the color saturation and then drop in a light blue sky. I tweak almost all of my photos, but i try to do so in a way that doesn't make it scream "Manipulation". I I want to do that, then I really pull out the stops and it's obvious. Sort of like the difference between photo-realism and cubism on painting. ^_*
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Will see what I can do. If it's worthy of a repost I'll do it
What's the best way to get the sky blue? Selecting the area and adjusting color?
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Either way is fine. If you select the color, you have to fine tune it to select the edge boundary as well as the sky, otherwise you get a fuzzy white outline. I have a selection of stock skies, with and with out clouds, I use to drop in a separate layer, then erase the original, washed out sky. I use GIMP, a much simpler program. ^_*
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