How is PP?

[bnnrcn]

This is a little bird photo taken in jpg format.Because I started learning PP I made some adjustments in ACR and I have uploaded it with the original one.Your comments about PP are very valuable for me to learn things how to do.Thanks in advance


1- Original (300 mm,ISO 100, F 5.6,1/200)






2-Edited

[Kyle]

I like what you did with it. The bird stands out much more and you got rid of the leaves in the background. Looks good!

[Shadowman]

Nice work.

[IzzieK]

I quite like the background of the original one...I wonder what it looks like if you did not change the background? Just curious...

[deetheturk]

Nice capture Binnur,well done bud

[bnnrcn]

Hi Isabel,I increased the exposure in the edit so the BG went brighter.But there is an adjustment brush function in ACR and it allows you to adjust exposure locally.I haven't tried it yet but your question is a good opportunity for me to learn how to use adjustment brush.I will give it a go tomorrow and if I can get something decent I will post it for you

I quite like the background of the original one...I wonder what it looks like if you did not change the background? Just curious...

[bnnrcn]

Thank you Kyle,John and David

[Wavelength]

Excellent; even the original will be more appealing if the hanging leaves is cloned out; the close up is awesome

[bnnrcn]

Thank you Nandakumar

[Downrigger]

It's a great job. Very nicely done. Shadowed bird brought up bright-eyed and sharp. I'm thinking the chest feathers are a just a little off... matted or something shingle-like looking. Or maybe they really look like that. If there is indeed a loss of detail in them with some noise I'm betting it's because the trade-off between sharp and noise is tougher when something has been brightened up from shadow.

[chauncey]

You have access to ACR but you shot in jpeg...?

[bnnrcn]

Thank you very much for your encouraging and informative comments Mark.This is the first time I have tried editing in ACR,I hope I will manage better in time

It's a great job. Very nicely done. Shadowed bird brought up bright-eyed and sharp. I'm thinking the chest feathers are a just a little off... matted or something shingle-like looking. Or maybe they really look like that. If there is indeed a loss of detail in them with some noise I'm betting it's because the trade-off between sharp and noise is tougher when something has been brightened up from shadow.

[bnnrcn]

Yes,you can open and edit jpg images too in ACR . You have to choose 'open as' and 'camera raw' to do that.

Btw when I took this photo I was shooting only jpg.Now I shoot both in raw and jpg,but because of winter I don't have the opportunity to shoot very often.

You have access to ACR but you shot in jpeg...?

[annie5154]

Lovely image Binnur and good job with PP. I really like the cropped version, and like Isabel, I would like to have seen it with just a tad more of the original's colour on the background, however, you have did well to remove distractions in the background. Well done!

[bnnrcn]

Thank you very much Anne,I will try to do something about the BG today and If I can manage to get something decent I will post it

Lovely image Binnur and good job with PP. I really like the cropped version, and like Isabel, I would like to have seen it with just a tad more of the original's colour on the background, however, you have did well to remove distractions in the background. Well done!

[Manfred M]

Binnur - I don't know what the conditions were like when you were shooting; but I feel that both your original shot and your processed image has a fairly heavy colour cast that needs to be corrected. I'm not working on my regular computer and the one I am on tends to be a bit blue (even after profiling),



I tried to remove the cast and the colours seem more natural to me in this image.

I definitely see CA (chromatic aberration) in the original; green fringe on the left side of the subject and magenta on the right. This is easy to get rid of when you import the image in ACR.

[bnnrcn]

Manfred I might have played with the colour adjustments of my camera at that time because this is an old photo and I don't play with the colour adjustments in my camera any more because it causes me trouble,in my first photos I uploaded to CIC there were always cast colours.I just wanted to try some editing in ACR because I have just started learning it and I said to my self I might as well try this one and edited this old bird shot.I don't have many raw images at hand to edit and I'm happy that the spring is at the door so I can go out and shoot some new stuff.If you can tell me with which functions and how I can make corrections in ACR I can try it.I ordered the book you suggested about Photoshop CC from Amazon but it will take some time to arrive in Turkey.So I try to learn by watching some videos on adobe tv and I try to edit some old photos.For the time being this is what I'm able to do

Binnur - I don't know what the conditions were like when you were shooting; but I feel that both your original shot and your processed image has a fairly heavy colour cast that needs to be corrected. I'm not working on my regular computer and the one I am on tends to be a bit blue (even after profiling),



I tried to remove the cast and the colours seem more natural to me in this image.

I definitely see CA (chromatic aberration) in the original; green fringe on the left side of the subject and magenta on the right. This is easy to get rid of when you import the image in ACR.

[bnnrcn]

Manfred ,I didn't take any notice of the blue colour in the photo you posted, because you said your computer made it.I can correct the colour cast in the original besides CA if you can tell me how to do.

[Manfred M]

In Camera Raw - click the 6th button from the left (it looks like a cross-section of a lens); called 'lens correction".

It wil have three tabs; <Profile>, <Color> and <Manual>; click on <Color> and there will be a check box that says "remove chromatic aberration". Click that and it does a really good job of cleaning up CA.

As for color correction, under the basic button (the one that is there when you open up ACR), if you have something you know to be a neutral (some true gray area - it won't work on something that is almost pure white or pure black), use the eyedropper tool to sample and it will apply the correction.

In your bird image, I did not see anything that I found to be neutral; use the temperature and tint sliders to adjust. I find that often just changing the color temperature is enough, but with your bird, I had to cool things down with the temperature and move the tint towards the green a bit (I think both values were around -40).

The reason I mentioned the blue is that my laptops screen tends to have a touch of blue in it, even after calibrating and profiling it. This means while I may see a bit of blue, it may be correct on your screen.

[bnnrcn]

Thank you very much Manfred.How can I correct the color cast?The bird you posted has got a bluish chest and the tree as well,so I think it is better if I correct the colour cast with my computer.

In Camera Raw - click the 6th button from the left (it looks like a cross-section of a lens); called 'lens correction".

It wil have three tabs; <Profile>, <Color> and <Manual>; click on <Color> and there will be a check box that says "remove chromatic aberration". Click that and it does a really good job of cleaning up CA.