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Female Cardinal Before and After

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Posted by Daniel Loomis on January 25, 2009 at 7:02 PM
Female Cardinal Before and After
Experimenting with taking twigs out of an image. This is the before with all twigs in place.
Posted by Daniel Loomis on January 25, 2009 at 7:03 PM
Image AFTER editing with Photoshop. Corrections made using clone stamp. Looks a bit stark to me. Comments?
Posted by Darren Huski on January 25, 2009 at 8:07 PM
There is a bit of blue-gray in front of the birds chest that looks a little out of place but otherwise it looks really well done.
Posted by Ken Bachman on January 25, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Yes I would say that it is real well done except maybe a little fuzziness on the back of the bird. I don't think that the background is too bad in the first one, perhaps more natural looking.
Posted by Scott Bean on January 25, 2009 at 11:48 PM
Yes I agree, very well done but I do think maybe I like the first one better. If I hadn't seen the before I wouldn't think any at all of the background on the 'after' but the first one does seem more natural. Maybe because I always see Cardinals in brush and not very often completely out in the open??