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

[jprzybyla]

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.

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.

[jprzybyla]

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.

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.

[jprzybyla]

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.

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?