{"id":739,"date":"2009-09-24T11:13:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T15:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=739"},"modified":"2011-02-24T14:25:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T18:25:56","slug":"katmai-quick-mask-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2009\/09\/24\/katmai-quick-mask-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Katmai Quick Mask Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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This is the original capture: "Before"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

When the mother bear placed her head above the cub, I knew that the moment would not last more than a second or two.\u00a0 My urge was to move to my left to separate the gull from the bear, but if I did that, I was pretty positive that I would miss the shot.\u00a0 Seeing that the gull did not merge with the bear, I created the image almost immediately knowing that it would be easy to move the gull with a Quick Mask.\u00a0 (See same below.)<\/p>\n

The improved color and contrast in version 2 were a reslut of the\u00a0standard levels and contrast adjustments that are part of my regular workflow as described in detail in our Digital Basics File:\u00a0 https:\/\/store.birdsasart.com\/shop\/category.aspx?catid=30<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This is the optimized image: "After". Note: as always, you can click on any image to see the larger version.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

In the optimized image immediately above, I created a Quick Mask of the gull, moved it well to our left, and then used another Quick Mask to seamlessly cover the gull in its original position.\u00a0 Note also that I used a series of QMs to eliminate the two rather ugly salmon heads that were lying on the shoreline.\u00a0 I used a variety of the Quick Masking Techniques that are\u00a0described in Robert O’Toole’s APTATS CD (Advanced Photoshop Tips and Techniques).\u00a0 You can learn more about or order APTATS here: https:\/\/store.birdsasart.com\/shop\/item.aspx?itemid=54<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This is the original capture<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

The many gulls in the background are quite distracting so I created the two different versions that can be seen below, again using a series of QMs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This is the original capture<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

To create version 1 above, I used a series of QMs to cover the small, out-of-focus white blobs but left the larger gulls in flight and the perched bird behind the bear.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Version 2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

In version 2, immediately above, I decided to eliminate the larger gull from behind the bird and to move the single flying gull that I left to our left for better compositional balancce.\u00a0 Though this is my favorite version, I do appreciate the fact that some photo editors would prefer version 1 as it gives the viewer a better idea of the setting.\u00a0Note the small crop in version 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ngg_shortcode_5_placeholder This is the original capture: "Before" <\/p>\n

When the mother bear placed her head above the cub, I knew that the moment would not last more than a second or two. My urge was to move to my left to separate the gull from the bear, but if I did that, I was pretty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88,30,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-88","category-katmai-2009","category-photoshop-tips","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}