What Would You Do (#35)

[pkd14u]

OH! Thanks for the tip Nicole. I will probably go back and do that.

pkd14u

[timberford]

Here's my take:



Cropped, adjusted levels, increased contrast and brightness, reduced the exposure.

Converted to black & white using custom colour selections and then layer masked the yellow beak back in.

[his4ever]

My steps:

Levels
Converted to B&W
Unsharpmask
did levels a few more times with different layer masks to help bring out the robin.
Blurred and darkened the top portion to help the robin stand out more.

[Aia Adriano]

My take on it.

Cropped
Adjusted levels and saturation a bit. Duplicated original layer, desaturated, inverted and changed layer blending to overlay.
Desaturated the rocks so the robin would stand out.

Great shot as it is, Wulf!

[jiminyClickit]

- Crop to give prominence.
- Select bird, pay attention to edge feathering (my program calls it Smudge).
- Copy bird, desaturate, blur, lighten. Skew this layer, distort it down and left to make shadow. Position at foot.
- Add a very light vignette.
- Use Contrast, Sharpen, and Saturation sparingly to enhance feathers.

[timkoo]

levels and curves one for bg one for bird, flipped horizontally and added a vignette

[Jboy]

Here's my shot at it.



A pretty simple edit. First, a levels adjustment to bring out some feather detail. For color adjustment there are two main layers- a multiply layer that I masked for the stones, and a soft light that's only applied to the robin. Added a vignette that I modified a bit on the left side to make darker. Also added a spot light behind the robin by duplicating the layer, dodging (low exposure, 0% hardness), and then erasing any parts of the robin that got dodged on that layer. Finally added a warm color filter because the colors looked all funky when I saved for web.

Too dark for some reason - looked brighter in Photoshop...