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Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

03/06/2008 03:44:37 AM · #1

I followed the "Watching & Waiting Tutorial" by Judi. I took me a few hours, and I don't know photoshop nearly as well as she does. Anyhow, I think it came out pretty good. What do you all think? I didn't understand all of the details, as I do not know masking or adjustment layers, but I tried! :)

After:
//www.ariellehaze.com/photos/albums/art/hdr/070526-johnraven.jpg

Before:
//www.ariellehaze.com/photos/albums/art/hdr/070526-johnravenb4.jpg

~ Arie

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Judi

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

03/06/2008 03:49:30 AM · #2

Hey...that looks fantastic. Well done.

Canon EOS-5D Mark IV

Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS

03/06/2008 04:31:53 AM · #3

pretty well done. If you could just clone out the dirt on the jacket?
No seriously, only two nitpicks:
the raven merges too much with the background (background should be a little brighter) and there's a greenish area at the neck of the guy.

IreneM

Nikon D700

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8

03/06/2008 04:37:03 AM · #4

I think it looks great.

Tez

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

03/06/2008 04:38:09 AM · #5

It looks like you could have done that with a sepia filter and a large radius USM.

Nice picture though.

nibbles

Nikon D70s

03/06/2008 05:07:26 AM · #6

nice picture..you did really well with it..i would love to get this close to one of those birds as i love them.

dwterry

Canon EOS-1D Mark III

03/06/2008 07:02:26 AM · #7

The tones on the guy are great. The bird, however, is merging with the background... need to do something to lighten up the background a bit.

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

03/06/2008 11:09:43 AM · #8

Thanks! I saved the psd, of course, so I'll work on it more this weekend and repost! :) I appreciate your thoughts! This is a great tutorial, by the way... for anyone interested. Thank you, Judi!!!

Also, I saw that this could be done with sepia and USM, but how? There are different colors in it... I thought sepia was only a brown/white like a black/white. I'd love to learn how to do this even quicker!

As for the bird, there was a step in the tutorial to pull the bird (subject) out of the background, but it didn't work for me. When I put a mask over the curves adjustment layer and did a paintbucket black with a white paintbrush to erase the background, it didn't seem to work. I wonder if that's a CS3 thing, as the tutorial was done in CS2. The adjustment layer with the mask didn't look the same on my computer and in the tutorial. Hmmm.

Arie :)

Message edited by author 2008-03-06 11:11:47.

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

03/06/2008 11:49:52 AM · #9

Originally posted by mirdonamy:

As for the bird, there was a step in the tutorial to pull the bird (subject) out of the background, but it didn't work for me. When I put a mask over the curves adjustment layer and did a paintbucket black with a white paintbrush to erase the background, it didn't seem to work. I wonder if that's a CS3 thing, as the tutorial was done in CS2. The adjustment layer with the mask didn't look the same on my computer and in the tutorial. Hmmm.

Arie :)

I'm not sure, but I *think* you have to make the mask visible and selected in the channels palette to paint on it.

R.

danielv

Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

03/06/2008 11:53:27 AM · #10

Originally posted by mirdonamy:

that's surprising because it does work the same in CS2 and 3, with the same icons, names etc. you should try again because aplying layer masks to adjustment layer is a must in many cases. When I do PP, 90% of my adjustment layers have layer masks. Happy to give you more precisions if you want.

the picture is great but indeed the bird merges too much with the background.

03/06/2008 12:51:02 PM · #11

I'll have to mess with it again when I get home. Perhaps I did something wrong. Bah! Anyhow, I'll work on the bird and repost soon! Thanks so much!!! :)

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

03/08/2008 02:29:21 AM · #12

Okay, what do you think of this newer version?

Work in Progress:

Before:

Judi

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

03/08/2008 02:31:26 AM · #13

Instead of using the clone brush for the mark on the jacket...use the Spot Healing Brush Tool (J). But it is coming along nicely.

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

03/08/2008 02:36:17 AM · #14

Hi Judi, thank you! I have never used that before. I, sadly, didn't clone out on a separate layer and don't want to go backwards and redo the bird. Hmmm, I'll know better for next time!

Thank you so much!

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Edit: I used the healing brush on the 800px wide jpg image... I updated the after photo, what do you think?

Message edited by author 2008-03-08 02:46:47.

Judi

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

03/08/2008 02:37:26 AM · #15

You are very welcome.