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Bird on a hot tin roof
Bird on a hot tin roof
Dave Gordon


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Challenge: Selective Desaturation (Advanced Editing II)
Camera: Nikon Coolpix 990
Location: Goshen, NY
Date: Jun 16, 2004
Aperture: f/6.7
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/840
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Jun 16, 2004

Taken with a Nikon Coolpix 990 with a Crystal Vue 8X tele extender. Adjusted brightness and contrast, increased saturation and lightness, selected the bird using a combination of magic wand and lasso, then inverted the selection, cleaned up a bit in quick-mask mode and desaturated the selected background.

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Votes: 197
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06/25/2004 03:38:31 PM
Somehow the colors just don't appear natural looking..... as if something is reflecting onto the bird. It deffinitly stands out.
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06/24/2004 06:47:09 AM
The desaturation didn't really make the bird standout that much.
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06/23/2004 08:07:33 PM
i feel the outline of the bird has too much of a hard line where you used the selection tool. Maybe try a softer edge next time to reduce the effect of the selection tool. not sure which program you used, but there should be an option for "soft edge"
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06/22/2004 02:25:00 PM
Bird looks a bit out of focus, and colors are very soft, maybe if you made the colors harder this photo would be better...
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06/21/2004 03:28:17 PM
excellent closeup of a bird, but not the most well-rendered example of selective desat., i think the colors are not well suited - the bird doesn't look too different from black and white
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06/21/2004 03:09:56 PM
the bird looks a lot like a painting (not a good or bad thing, just an observation). if i were to recommend one thing, it would be to boost the contrast a little.
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06/21/2004 03:41:20 AM
looks like a cardboard cut-out
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06/20/2004 09:40:45 PM
Charming colors.
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