An interesting challenge, and it appears there are about 1001 ways to go about this. Here's another. Using PS CC:
- Rotated .73º left
- applied Lens Correction, (Automatic, DMC-FX55 profile was the closest/best I had here)
- Lens Correction>Custom>Vertical Perspective -38
- Then it looked a bit stretched vertically, so I used Scale to reduce the height by about 3%

Afterwards, I realized that proper procedure would indicate to do the lens corrections first and then the rotation, but in this case of less than 1 degree rotation it would hardly make a difference, and it's easier to get the lens corrections properly adjusted if the rotation's done first. Does that make sense?

Also messed around with the color a bit, and ended up goosing the shadows a little with the Camera Raw filter, but of course with a JPG, brightening the dark bits by any means always translates to "turn up the noise!", so I don't know if I like any of that better than the original...

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I'd make a clipping path with the pen tool. That's probably just my product imaging background showing, though... most any selection tools should do the job okay.

I didn't believe this, so I had to go looking for it right away - turns out I rather like how the Straighten works...

the "degrees dial" is a nice touch...

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Here's one where a seemingly small oof detail serves as an important compositional element. Which one do you like better? (I made that decision when I shot it, apparently.)

I'll have to agree with oldtiggers observation - the artificial blur seems a bit over the top, and the subject seems "clipped out" from the background. I probably would have gone for something between image 1 & 2, but it is a very subjective decision indeed... ;)

Oddly, the thing I like best about this birds shot is the black-framed perspective treatment - it is as if you are looking out a window that is impossibly close to the subject. fun!

I found your 'Faminbokeh' shot immediately engaging, and although the upper left sparkly bits are slightly distracting, it would surely not be the same - nor as interesting without it, imo. I find it quite appealing, although you may have asked the model to turn a bit right and look towards the camera... :)

Really?!? Cool! In that case, post up some more pics instead. :lol: ...we like that part. :|

How about another fore+background oof example? I would have never even considered shooting this with everything in focus.

with 'nokeh'

Have you checked out the pricing on sites like Imagebrief for subjects-to-order photography? Almost all of their royalty-free deals are $250-per-image and up (sometimes WAY up), and some publishers offer royalty and exclusivity options.
I would expect a request on Imagebrief for a Muscovy Duck image like yours, for mass publication, to be priced upwards of $500 or so. But you know, prices are all over the place, and there is absolutely NO "standard pricing" anywhere I've found - take what the market will bear...

"Photos" will surely not be a "Lightroom killer," by any stretch. And you would think they could have imagined up a more distinctive name for it... ;)
The new app comes with OS 10.10.3 - probably not compatible with any older OS version. But I'm not going to test that here...

Following this post, I had to run over to the App Store and do the upgrade also (Thanks for the heads-up!).

A quick look at the extremely brief "Preferences" pane tells the story, I think - this is not a program for anybody who enjoys versatility, and/or it was released way before they included enough features for anybody to want to use it! (but I probably shouldn't really say "anybody", since it is obviously geared towards the "shoot a bazillion pics with my smartphone and post them all over the place" crowd). I'm sure I'll use it the same way I use Lightroom - to see how it works, and that's about it...

pretty scant "Preferences" in Photos.app

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There almost has to be something strange about those files that's making Lightroom not "see" them. Since you're on Windows, I'll go out on a limb by guessing that maybe they inadvertently got saved without the ".JPG" extension, OR (slim chance) they are a filetype that Lightroom doesn't recognize for Import (like BMP, GIF, PDF, etc.).

Deleting Actions or "Clear All Actions" in PS ONLY removes the current Actions from the 'Actions' menu in PS, but has no effect on the Action sets (usually .atn files) you have saved (in ...Photoshop CC/Presets/Actions/, or wherever). You did save them, didn't you? :) So... you can always go back and reload them using "Load Actions" or "Replace Actions". Just don't forget to save the ones you want somewhere, then you can delete at will from the Actions menu. (I just now deleted all my actions and reloaded them for a test! - Beware that if you have created Actions that have not yet explicitly been saved, a PS crash or Forced Quit will make them unrecoverable.)

Here's a pic from the first try - they work okay, but the fit isn't spot on, so I started on a new set instead of bothering to polish these up (using all the stuff I learned from the first go-round, of course). So far I have watched about 30 YouTube videos, and a DVD from this guy: http://www.makeyourowndentures.net/
About $200 gets you enough raw materials to make at least a few sets of dentures - sure beats $5k or so each.

Don't mean to hijack this meaningful thread, though... Since there are so many of us old farts who can use dentures on this site, maybe I should post a more detailed message in Chit-Chat(?)

sooc JPG - the first attempt...