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Ric Grupe

I really like this backlit Great Blue Heron...but the background totally sucked...so I made my own.

Richard

Ric Grupe wrote:

I really like this backlit Great Blue Heron...but the background totally sucked...so I made my own.

Great shot, Ric. The background replacement seems like a partial success to me. You got the hard part right--the blending looks good--but on my monitor, there seems to be a fair amount of noise and a bit of banding in the background. Might be resizing artifacts,

Oh, and happy B-day.

Ric Grupe

Richard wrote:

Great shot, Ric. The background replacement seems like a partial success to me. You got the hard part right--the blending looks good--but on my monitor, there seems to be a fair amount of noise and a bit of banding in the background. Might be resizing artifacts,

Oh, and happy B-day.

Thanks, Richard.:D

What looks like noise is actually smudges to try and distract from the banding. After appling the gradient I tried blurring it but the banding was still visable.

Art Scott

Nice photo.....your background looked to me as if it were a macro shot of savage bg paper that had a crease in it.....other wise it is a fantastic picthumbthumbbowbow

Ric Grupe

Art Scott wrote:

Nice photo.....your background looked to me as if it were a macro shot of savage bg paper that had a crease in it.....other wise it is a fantastic picthumbthumbbowbow

Thank you, Art! :D:D:D:D

redleash

Except for the banding, it looks to me like he's sitting in a fine, misty rain. Great shot of the bird--I love the backlighting!

Lauren