This is a shot for the fast shutter speed technique challenge. I have the fast shutter speed thing down but I think there is a branch that is blurred or distorted that runs right thru his face and it is highly distracting. I imagine there is a way to remove it in photoshop but I have no idea how to do it. Help, anyone??
Shutterspeed 1/4000
Aperture f/5
ISO 1000
Focal length 195 mm
You can remove it but highly time consuming if you want to keep all the detail. It would be easier to remove it above and below the bird. The clone to would help. Birds just don't pose well we get the photo lined up. What's with that?
Beautiful colors and love the wing detail. I had seen this on the challenge page and thought it was great. Those indirect limbs (for lack of a more accurate word) are so much harder for me to remove. I'll be watching to see if anyone has any words of wisdom.
@hinaansari@milaniet@joansmor Thanks everyone....unfortunately what I've learned is this shot could have ben destroyed by the branch being more in focus and therefore totally blocking his face. And the other thing I've learned is that there is no easy fix in PS! Bummer! Oh well, I've definitely learned something and thats what I'm here to do!
If you do have the full Photoshop, what I would do to emphasize the bid is to carefully select it and only it, avoiding the branches, then "invert the selection and put that on a new layer. Now you can operate on the background, perhaps blurring it more (the front branch should fade a little. Then you can go back to the bird on the bottom layer and work on that, perhaps sharpening it, perhaps adjusting the shadows high. Those adjustments won't affect the background on the top layer since it is completely masked out.
As John @joansmor above mentioned, cloning out the branch really wouldn't work in such a close job I think. Or be so amazingly difficult, at least having to clone back in parts of the bird as well, as to be a nightmare and probably not very successful anyway. My two cents worth.
As John @joansmor above mentioned, cloning out the branch really wouldn't work in such a close job I think. Or be so amazingly difficult, at least having to clone back in parts of the bird as well, as to be a nightmare and probably not very successful anyway. My two cents worth.