"Linda From Maine" suggested I post here and show how I got my final product. Here it is:
OOC out of camera Picture #1
80D, 100-400L Mk 2 @ 400, 1/1000 @f/8.0, ISO 5000
hand held in very poor light just the birds head, tail tip and part of back caught some bright light
Lightroom:
lens correction
crop
dehaze
brush stroke to darken part of wire he is perched on
to
Photoshop: Picture #2
tone
contrast
highlights
shadows
midtones
add signature
save to LR: Picture #3
tweak vibrance
tweak saturation
Export as straight photo Picture #4
to
Photoshop again
closer crop
oil paint filter
save to LR
and in
Lightroom
tweak contrast
tweak vibrance
export final and post Picture #5
On all of these PP steps I usually play around with the sliders before settling on my final setting and often go back to a process when a later process changes something and I decide a tweak is needed. Esp cropping, I may change that many times before the final.
And as usual only on download do the colors look like what I got on my monitor.
#1 OOC
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#2 After first PP in LR > PS
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#3 After first PP in PS, save to LR
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#4 final tweaks in LR and Export as Photo
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#5 Back to PS for closer crop and oil painting filter then final tweaks in LR
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I am posting another redo. Different and simpler route to get there with subtle differences in final image.
Robert - thanks so much for posting this. I never think about using PS filters - great reminder! And beautiful outcome!!
ML
Very nice Robert! Perfect treatment for the bird. Thanks for posting.
melueth wrote:
Robert - thanks so much for posting this. I never think about using PS filters - great reminder! And beautiful outcome!!
ML
Thank you. There is lot hidden in those menus and sub menus.
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