{"id":9868,"date":"2012-05-21T14:24:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T18:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=9868"},"modified":"2012-05-21T20:13:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T00:13:41","slug":"last-two-captive-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2012\/05\/21\/last-two-captive-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Two Captive Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Congrats to Eric A. Rosen. His Great Horned Owl on curved branch was awarded third place in the Captive category of the BIRDS AS ART 1st International Bird Photography Competition. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Last Two Captive Lessons<\/h3>\n

Lesson 1<\/h2>\n

I followed my own suggestion on the Great Horned Owl on curved branch image above. I selected the bird using the Quick Selection Tool, put the selection on its own layer( Control J), and then lifted the Curve (Control M for Curves on a Layer) to taste. All as described in Digital Basics<\/a> (that includes my complete digital workflow as well as dozens of great Photoshop tips). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Congratulations to Stan Hoyt. His image of a Toco Toucan (St. Augustine Alligator Farm) is the frst-prize winner in the Captive category of the BIRDS AS ART 1st International Bird Photography Competition. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Lesson 2?<\/h2>\n

Above is Stan’s Captive category winning image as presented to the judges. Starting with his RAW file, I created the similar but different optimized version below. Please let me know which you like best, the original image above or the re-crafted image below. And be sure to let us know what you like or dislike about each version. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This is my version of Stan’s category-winning image. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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Nikon Dslr + Lens Bundle Rebates<\/h3>\n

Click here<\/a> for details. Offer includes the brand new D3200 and the D7000. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Congrats to Eric A. Rosen. His Great Horned Owl on curved branch was awarded third place in the Captive category of the BIRDS AS ART 1st International Bird Photography Competition. <\/p>\n

Last Two Captive Lessons Lesson 1 <\/p>\n

I followed my own suggestion on the Great Horned Owl on curved branch image above. I […]<\/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":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-147","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868","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=9868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}