{"id":8936,"date":"2012-03-12T09:22:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T13:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=8936"},"modified":"2012-04-02T16:47:21","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T20:47:21","slug":"having-fun-with-a-fun-image-or-creating-a-photo-illustration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2012\/03\/12\/having-fun-with-a-fun-image-or-creating-a-photo-illustration\/","title":{"rendered":"Having Fun With a Fun Image or Creating a Photo Illustration?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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This image was created with the Canon 70-200mm f\/2.8L IS II lens<\/a>, the 1.4X III TC<\/a> (hand held at 115mm), and the EOS-1D Mark IV<\/a>. ISO 400. Evaluative metering +1 2\/3 stops: 1\/2000 sec. at f\/5 in Manual mode. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Having Fun With a Fun Image or Creating a Photo Illustration?<\/h3>\n

The image above was created from the image below; it took me about 30 minutes in Photoshop. I covered most of the extraneous birds in the front of the frame with several fairly large Quick Masks. Additional clean-up work was done with a series of smaller Quick Masks. Several of the Quick Masks needed to be warped. Most of them had Layer Masks added so that I could fine tune the coverage. In addition I used the Patch Tool, the Spot Healing Brush, and the Clone Stamp Tool. The basics of quick masking and image clean-up are covered in detail in our Digital Basics File<\/a>. Advanced Quick Masking is covered in detail in Robert O’Toole’s APTATS I<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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What Do You Think?<\/h3>\n

In addition to removing the extra birds in front of the flock I made two other significant changes to the image. If you can spot them let us know by leaving a comment. <\/p>\n

Was I having fun with a fun image or creating a photo illustration?<\/p>\n

In your eyes is the optimized image a photograph? <\/p>\n

If you had the skills would you have done what I did? Why or why not? <\/p>\n

Remember: be nice. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n

My Comments on Your Comments.<\/h3>\n

Still catching up. I finally had some time tonight to comment on the comments at the St. Andrews Bay\/Best Day Ever? post here<\/a>. Stop by and learn which of the five images was my favorite. <\/p>\n

BIRDS AS ART Bulletin #401 On-line<\/h3>\n

BIRDS AS ART Bulletin #401 is on-line now and can best be viewed in spectacular white on black format by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here are the features: <\/p>\n