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A Bread roll! with a re-paste

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Posted by Paul King on January 20, 2008 at 3:14 PM
A Bread roll! with a re-paste
Waiting for the Short tailed vole to re-appear, after a door slammer had removed everything from the feeding station A nicely coloured Redpoll decided to put in an appearence.

Techs:
D70, 300mm + 1.4TC, SB800 -3ev plus diffuser @ 1/250th
Posted by Andy Astbury on January 20, 2008 at 4:05 PM
The twig that runs behind the bird used to be infront yes?

You've had your clone brush set a bit on the hard side, but the give-away is the birds far foot :wink:
Posted by Paul Inglis on January 20, 2008 at 5:04 PM
This is a little sharp on my monitor. I can see what Andy means about the twig and cloning though.
Posted by Paul Gibbs on January 20, 2008 at 5:09 PM
Nice shot, not a species i've had in my viewfinder before, though i think i spotted a flock this WE.
Posted by Paul King on January 20, 2008 at 6:59 PM
Hi guys,

Yes it was and so was the brush, have revisited and hope this repost is more appealing!!!
thanks for the input
Posted by Major Gilbert on January 21, 2008 at 4:37 AM
Second one much better Paul, but somewhere the processing has gone wrong as on my monitor the body looks washed out.

Major
Posted by Jim Greenfield on January 21, 2008 at 7:23 AM
Nice subject but looks a touch soft around the eye and breast - will it take a bit more USM
Posted by Andy Shepherd on January 21, 2008 at 12:29 PM

Hi Paul , repost is a big improvement , BG is very complimentary but the colours look a little over saturated.
:toast:

Regards

Andy... :smile:
Posted by eric weight on January 21, 2008 at 1:08 PM
You did well to get of one of these at all, but the cloning on the breast is still a bit obvious.
:toast: Eric
Posted by Tom_W on January 22, 2008 at 5:24 AM
The second one is a big improvement as it holds your eye simply on the bird, I think asking cloning to recover this image is a bit ask, especially if you where to print it at A4.

T