Help Me Choose

Khaos

Which one? Original, first crop, or second crop. Thanks for looking.



Original





1st Crop





2nd Crop

JamesJWeg

Original for me.

James.

behr655

I like the original and the 2nd crop. The 1st crop is just too much "in your face".

Bear

Lucky Hack

behr655 wrote:

I like the original and the 2nd crop. The 1st crop is just too much "in your face".

Bear

I've got to agree with Bear on this one, in the first crop there is too much subject and not enough background to frame it. The original and the 2nd are both good.

hoping this helps -Ian

ehughes

I like the 2nd crop. Nice detail

Ed

bfjr

2nd

rutt

2nd crop. But needs a deeper shadow. Try taking to lab and moving the shadow endpoint of the L curve inward just until you start to lose shadow detail (might not be much). Then move highlight endpoint inward until it seems not too dark. This will also increase feather detail. Do this before sharpening.

Khaos

2nd crop per Rutt's excellent suggestion.

I didn't yet, but I will probably use noise ninja on the background only.

rutt

Khaos wrote:

2nd crop per Rutt's excellent suggestion.

I didn't yet, but I will probably use noise ninja on the background only.

Noise in the background works for me, actually. I'd leave it alone. Because of the feathers and soft focus on the beak this is going to be a difficult selection to make well. You are more likely to make it look unnatural than anything.

pathfinder

rutt wrote:

Noise in the background works for me, actually. I'd leave it alone. Because of the feathers and soft focus on the beak this is going to be a difficult selection to make well. You are more likely to make it look unnatural than anything.

Color select, contiguous, perhaps? Might work.