Who can make the Woodpecker sing?

Postby **mikemeister_admin** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 12:04 am

Would love to see what you can do with this Woodpecker shot I took this morning.

Postby **mikemeister_admin** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 4:54 am

The slight discoloation under the beak is intentional.GregM

ggroess · Postby **ggroess** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 5:06 am

I thought he needed some Blue sky...
Very nice image BTW...

Greg

Postby **mikemeister_admin** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 11:48 am

Lovely image - I thought I'd ruffle his feathers a bit

Postby **mikemeister_admin** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 12:35 am

GregM - I like the saturation and richness you added. Seems to add to the clarity too.

Greg - Nice job on the BG. Did you also apply a curve? Seems to be more detail in the bird.

Zog - Nice contrast in the feathers. Seems to bring his eye out too.

Fine work all! Thanks!

ggroess · Postby **ggroess** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 1:32 am

There are multiple things going on...

The bird has been corrected BTN in the RGB space. It was tough to choose a neutral...
The saturation was boosted in LAB.
The background was changed using a LAB trick to replace the colors.
I blurred the A and B channels a bit in LAB to reduce the back ground noise.
I sharpened using USM and a copy of the same mask used for the background color change.

Greg

Postby **mikemeister_admin** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 4:21 am

Thanks Greg, looks great! I sure hope you will be covering that LAB trick in class :)

ggroess · Postby **ggroess** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 3:19 pm

indeed we do....It is so simple...and so powerful...

Greg

-default · Postby **-default** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 5:19 pm

Wow, Greg. Great pic!

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