Salvaged Trio

Sean K

I waited for the swimming ducks to align themselves and then snapped the picture. Through a combination of me being a beginner and my camera having a good zoom I chopped the head off of this poor duck. :dunno

I'm also a beginner with photoshop, but I think I did a pretty good job fixing the problem. What do you think, will the ducks forgive me?

Harryb

I think you did a fine recovery job and I liked the final result. How did you do the fix?

Sean K

I enlarged the canvas at the top of the image and clone stamped most of the water using the healing brush to touch up things up. The top of the head was clone stamped from the middle duck and then shaped into place. During the duck's head fitting session all the glare from the sun was lost so I went cloned in a bit of that too trying to keep it subtle yet somewhat inline with the other two. Basically all done with clone stamp, healing brush, a bit of smudging and a lot of "alt+ctrl+z." B&W was done via adobe's black and white tutorial.

Dick on Aruba

Good fix, nice capture!

I think it would benefit the picture if the ducks had more space in the direction they're swimming.

Thanks for sharing.

Dick.