Red-winged Blackbird... What's wrong with the image?

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Originally Posted by Cantab

Joe, I found this mini-lesson very helpful and hope you may find time to do others in the future. A dedicated thread would be womderful since it would allow people to subscribe and ensure they didn't miss any posts.

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Hello Bruce, I certainly will do more as time allows. I think a dedicated thread is a great idea... if a Moderator reads this would you please change the title of the thread to: What is wrong with this image? Thank you.

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Originally Posted by Christina S

Hi Joe,
Why did you choose to use the burn tool to darken the overexposed part? ie why not use the adjustment brush set to exposure and decrease the exposure?

Thank you.

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Hello Christina, it is the same thing. The drop down menu calls it Burn (Darken) a throw back to the darkroom days. It also lists Dodge (Lighten). Either one lowers or raises the exposure respectively, and the amount is controlled by the slider.

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Originally Posted by Suzan J

Hello Everyone: I would have liked to comment on some of the great bird and nature photos some of you have posted over the last week, but I suffered a catastropic hard drive failure requiring my Mac to make a visit to the local computer repair shop. :( (Luckily, my most important documents were backed up, but I may have lost the last two weeks of my photos. Hopefully, the wizards at the shop can recover those as well) I am now temporarily using a very old PC with an awful monitor. Anyway, thank you Joe for starting this thread. It is great fun to try and analyse the shot and come up with a PP plan. It would be interesting to have a thread like this once in a while to make us novice post-processors think a little bit. I use Aperture 3.2, but from what I have been learning from these threads, it is quite similar to Lightroom.

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Hello Suzan, sorry about your computer. Thank God for backups, I never delete my memory card until I have backed up a days shoot. I will do these from time to time. look for the thread: What is wrong with this image?