{"id":786,"date":"2009-11-17T18:54:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T22:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=786"},"modified":"2011-02-24T14:25:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T18:25:56","slug":"bill-clean-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2009\/11\/17\/bill-clean-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Clean-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>This Willet was photographed at LaJolla, CA with the handheld Canon 400mm f\/4 IS DO lens and the EOS 50D. ISO 200. Evaluative metering +1\/3 stop: 1\/1600 sec. at f\/4 set manually.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Aside from working on the eyes of most of my avian subjects, I often spend considerable time cleaning a\u00a0bird&#8217;s bill.\u00a0\u00a0 I work large, often at 500 to 800%.\u00a0 Tip: hit &#8220;Z&#8221; for the Zoom Tool and then click-draw a box around the area that you wish to work on.\u00a0 To eliminate sand, dirt, birts of food (if I opt\u00a0to do so), specular highlights (I hate bill shine!),\u00a0and\u00a0or small areas of discoloration or damage, I usually use the Patch Tool and\u00a0the Clone Stamp Tool (that often in cases where I wish to\u00a0divide a larger problem area into two sections before using the Patch Tool.\u00a0 A times I use a Quick Mask or two and more rarely, the Spot Healing Brush.\u00a0 Detailed instructions on using these tools can be found in Digital Basics: <a href=\"https:\/\/store.birdsasart.com\/shop\/category.aspx?catid=32\">https:\/\/store.birdsasart.com\/shop\/category.aspx?catid=32<\/a><\/div>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>ngg_shortcode_1_placeholder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>This tight crop shows extensive areas with specular highlights.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ngg_shortcode_2_placeholder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ten minutes work most with the Patch Tool yields a nice clean bill.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>(As always, you can click on any image to see\u00a0 a larger version.\u00a0 \u00a0I&#8217;ll be back soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> ngg_shortcode_3_placeholder This Willet was photographed at LaJolla, CA with the handheld Canon 400mm f\/4 IS DO lens and the EOS 50D. ISO 200. Evaluative metering +1\/3 stop: 1\/1600 sec. at f\/4 set manually. <\/p>\n<p>Aside from working on the eyes of most of my avian subjects, I often spend considerable time cleaning a bird&#8217;s bill. [&#8230;]<\/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":[88,37,45,46,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-88","category-400mmdo-f4","category-50d","category-lajolla-ca","category-photoshop-tips","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","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=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}