Kieth
Nice shot . Here's my suggestions (just my opinions - others will not agree )
The bird really needs to be looking "into" the shot, so it really needs to be over to the right more
The perch is a bit big for the bird really and its a shame the feet are hidden. I will not mention the sharpness smile:
Well you did ask :
Cheers
John
I actually don't mind the bird looking out of frame in this one, I will mention sharpness though , just a little more sharpening would top it off nicely for me.
Thanks for looking,John i new you would put me right afraid i could not get the bird to sit on another post or indeed show it's feet and i must say i don't mind the way it's looking ,but hey everybody to there own opinion.
Thanks Keith.
As posted, the image is very flat in terms of both colour and contrast. Make sure that you have assigned the correct colour profile (sRGB) to the image before posting. If this is not the cause, you could certainly bring out a bit more colour and add contrast with additional processing.
For sharpening try the following:
Resize image to 720x480px (final size).
In Photoshop, select Filter>Sharpen>Unsharp Mask and set amount = 100; radius 0.2; threshold = 0. Click OK.
Then without doing anything else select Edit>Fade(Unsharp Mask). Leave opacity set to 100% but select Luminocity from the Blend Mode drop-down dialogue box. This step helps to reduce sharpening halos that sometimes occur.
Now repeat this process another 3 or 4 times to get the amount of sharpening that looks good on screen while viewing the image at full resolution (100 percent).
If you overdo the sharpening, just set back through the history states to get to an amount of sharpening that is more acceptable.
There are lots of ways to sharpen images in Photoshop and different methods work well in different circumstances and for different applications. This method usually produces good results for small, web-sized images such as those posted here.
Great shot Keith, not to bothered about the bird not looking at the camera, but a little more saturation and sharpness just to bring it out a bit more.
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Nice shot . Here's my suggestions (just my opinions - others will not agree )
The bird really needs to be looking "into" the shot, so it really needs to be over to the right more
The perch is a bit big for the bird really and its a shame the feet are hidden. I will not mention the sharpness smile:
Well you did ask
Cheers
John
Hi Keith,
I actually don't mind the bird looking out of frame in this one, I will mention sharpness though
Cheers,
Lewis.
Thanks Keith.
Dale
For sharpening try the following:
Resize image to 720x480px (final size).
In Photoshop, select Filter>Sharpen>Unsharp Mask and set amount = 100; radius 0.2; threshold = 0. Click OK.
Then without doing anything else select Edit>Fade(Unsharp Mask). Leave opacity set to 100% but select Luminocity from the Blend Mode drop-down dialogue box. This step helps to reduce sharpening halos that sometimes occur.
Now repeat this process another 3 or 4 times to get the amount of sharpening that looks good on screen while viewing the image at full resolution (100 percent).
If you overdo the sharpening, just set back through the history states to get to an amount of sharpening that is more acceptable.
There are lots of ways to sharpen images in Photoshop and different methods work well in different circumstances and for different applications. This method usually produces good results for small, web-sized images such as those posted here.
Heath