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Australia Zoo.

Great place to take photos.

The glass where the tigers were was abit dirty (small kids with ice cream fingers) but there was heaps of window and places to get a close up

This is my 1st go at animals (other than my beagle Max).

Any in sight on how to improve?




Ree

Ree, this is a very nice picture and it is always hard to shoot behind glass, but i can see a few drops of water so maybe it was wet. I like the image but if i was real fussy i would maybe try and clone the drops out.
Still great shot of this cat.
Well done.
Cheers
John
BBJ

BBJ

I did have a small go on photoshop, but sadly I am also new to the program and everytime I cloned, I felt like it looked odd?

I am abit 'fussy' so if you have any tips on CS2 photoshop and cloning they would be welcomed with opened arms

Let's say that what you have here (with me) is a true rookie!

But I am having fun learning!!

Ree

Ree - nice cat

When cloning use a soft brush. Helps a lot.

Ree wrote:
Any in sight on how to improve?

Ree

yeah get in closer ..no in all seriousness I think you did very well. If the drops weren't there I couldn't tell we were looking at the cat from behind glass. As for the composition I would have either got more of the head or in this case included the front paws...but thats just my personal opinion. Keep posting

Cheers

Mike

Thanks for your comments ozczecho, I am going to work on the water drops over the next few days...

Only other shot that I like is this close up of the same cat, but again there is reflextion from the glass, I have a filter on but either I am not using it right or I am using the wrong one?




As you can see I have had a go at cloning the drops on his nose but you can still see a few drops etc etc etc

Ree

Ree, i am not the best either but i know basics, but sometimes when there is glass i have found to bump the contrast up a bit helps.

Willy wrote:

When cloning use a soft brush. Helps a lot

Thanks for that I will give it a go

Ree

BBJ Wrote:

Ree, i am not the best either but i know basics, but sometimes when there is glass i have found to bump the contrast up a bit helps.

I will have a look at the contrast, so far I have used the auto settings, but I am have a play using manual, if it looks bad, well hey I can always start over again

Thanks

Ree

try using the "spot healing brush tool" just above the clone tool [looks like a bandaid]
just point the tool at the spot and left click. just make the tool big enough [change brush size up the top to maybe 19 or so] to cover the water drop.

Big Red...

Thanks you for the tip

Just had a quick go at it and the results were not bad for my 1st go!


I am going to have abit more of a go at it and try and get all the drops

thanks again

Ree

looks nicely exposed.
colour seems a tad bland though. wondering if this is the way it was saved to web or not.

I think these shots could benefit with an increase in saturation.

although I am currently looking on my notebook


Steve

if the subjects arent too close to the glass I'd suggest getting your camera hood right up against it to reduce reflections further.

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elffinarts

if the subjects arent too close to the glass I'd suggest getting your camera hood right up against it to reduce reflections further.

Thanks will have a go, going to go to the Syd Zoo next month and play about abit

avkomp wrote

colour seems a tad bland though. wondering if this is the way it was saved to web or not.
I think these shots could benefit with an increase in saturation.

As said before also new to P/S CS2 ...so I went back and increased the sats...

Is what I did not enough or too much??



Ree

a lttle too much ....... also a touch of contrast by using the levels or curves will make it jump.........

Just need to practice with the clone tool... and perhaps increase some shadow detail as well as a touch of contrast and saturation. hope you don't mind.. but here's a quick 2 minute jobby. the clone tool is your friend... definitely worth practicing with.



cheers

sorry.. i forgot to mention... i like the shot alot... nice dof.... nice subject... sharp...

cheers

xerubus, thanks I now see what everyone is talking about

I think my main prob is that I upload onto my laptop while we are away and use P/S on the laptop with the little touch pad it is a tad harder to work on the pic, as I have just found out by installing P/S into my desktop pc at home and using a mouse

I think that I am going to have to move off my cosy living room chair with my laptop (in lap) multi-tasking watching telly and playing with my photos to working in the study on my desktop

Cheers

Ree

just checked marks job.

now it looks the business!!

definitely lacked punch before, but with xerebus' effort is ready to jump thru my screen and maul me!!!

Steve