green heron: was reading/browsing Birds of the Chesapeake Bay - Paintings by John W Taylor and was thinking, what can I do to make some of my images look like these? So I worked on one...

pfrancke Loc: cold Maine

was reading/browsing Birds of the Chesapeake Bay - Paintings by John W Taylor and was thinking, what can I do to make some of my images look like these? So I worked on one of my green heron shots...

Might have thrown too much texture at it, but my feeble brain wants to put detail everywhere. And went for a more high-key feel than what I am used to.

thanks for looking

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photophile Loc: Lakewood, Ohio, USA

pfrancke wrote:

was reading/browsing Birds of the Chesapeake Bay - Paintings by John W Taylor and was thinking, what can I do to make some of my images look like these? So I worked on one of my green heron shots...

Might have thrown too much texture at it, but my feeble brain wants to put detail everywhere. And went for a more high-key feel than what I am used to.

thanks for looking

Looks attractive to me.

pfrancke Loc: cold Maine

photophile wrote:

Looks attractive to me.

thank you photophile

L-Fox

pfrancke wrote:

was reading/browsing Birds of the Chesapeake Bay - Paintings by John W Taylor and was thinking, what can I do to make some of my images look like these? So I worked on one of my green heron shots...

Might have thrown too much texture at it, but my feeble brain wants to put detail everywhere. And went for a more high-key feel than what I am used to.

thanks for looking

Very well done.

pfrancke Loc: cold Maine

l-fox wrote:

Very well done.

thanks l-fox

SnappyHappy Loc: Chapin, SC “The Capitol of Lake Murray”

Nice effect. Tell us about your workflow on this one. Thanks for sharing.

pfrancke Loc: cold Maine

SnappyHappy wrote:

Nice effect. Tell us about your workflow on this one. Thanks for sharing.

hi Snappy.. Something like:
1) lifted shadows and pulled back highlights in camera raw to get started
2) In PS, using a luminosity mask (for brights) I used camera raw filter and increased texture and made the brights a little warmer.
3) using a luminosity mask on darks, I increased coolness
4) threw a texture onto it in multiply mode (the background was completely blown out) and masked out the effect on branch and bird and adjusted opacity
5) added a slight vignette (whiteish pale yellow)
6) did a high pass filter and some sharpening on the bird
7) selectively screwed around with the colors a little, glowing the warms and making the blue greys in the rump more pronounced.
8) upped the contrast selectively (hopefully - tastefully)
9) blurred the branch where it enters the frame

SnappyHappy Loc: Chapin, SC “The Capitol of Lake Murray”

pfrancke wrote:

hi Snappy.. Something like: br 1) lifted shado... (show quote)

Thanks for sharing your process as well as your photograph

pfrancke Loc: cold Maine

SnappyHappy wrote:

Thanks for sharing your process as well as your photograph

hey, you are welcome Snappy - thanks for being interested

bleirer

I really like it, it would be good wall art for the living room.

pfrancke Loc: cold Maine

bleirer wrote:

I really like it, it would be good wall art for the living room.

hey thanks man...

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

I like it. Post processing can be fun and fruitful. It's tedious for some, though.

pfrancke Loc: cold Maine

kpmac wrote:

I like it. Post processing can be fun and fruitful. It's tedious for some, though.

thanks kpmac

Lol, I find that comment funny. While I hear you and there is truth in everything you say, for me the magic occurs in Post - talking about tedious.. frightening might be a better word, because you never know for sure what you are going to get. And you can't always repeat it...

But to my thinking, any tedious aspect has to be worth it. If a person cares about an image that he harvested, then show it the love and respect that it needs, right? Kind of like getting married, no sense doing it half assed!!! If you are going to be in, be ALL IN!! An image you like has to be worth an hour...

via the lens Loc: Northern California, near Yosemite NP

pfrancke wrote:

was reading/browsing Birds of the Chesapeake Bay - Paintings by John W Taylor and was thinking, what can I do to make some of my images look like these? So I worked on one of my green heron shots...

Might have thrown too much texture at it, but my feeble brain wants to put detail everywhere. And went for a more high-key feel than what I am used to.

thanks for looking

Good background choice, tack sharp, nice image.

pfrancke Loc: cold Maine

via the lens wrote:

Good background choice, tack sharp, nice image.

thanks via