Seaside Sparrow II

Looks good Luke,
I like the details and the saturation of the colors. The composition looks good also. Good head turn and eye contact.
I would maybe add a bit more contrast, but not much. Also the piece of grass pointing to the birds rear is a bit distracting.

Nicely done.
Bummer about the computer crash, but glad you had everything backed up.

Luke, Nice pose and great look at the longish bill and yellow supraloral of the species. Clone job looks good and I like your comp. My impression was that I might experiment with bringing overall exposure down slightly.

Sorry to hear about your computer crash. Hope you like your new system.

Nice Luke. Oddly the smaller and larger image seem to have very different saturation levels when I look at them. I prefer the smaller. Great pose and I like the simple composition of the reeds.

HI Luke, It looks like you did a great job with the cloning. I think it may be worth taking out that blade of grass that runs behind the bird too. Curious, did you use the spot healing tool with content aware on the first attempt?

I like your comp on this a lot.

Peter

Dennis,

Not sure why they would look different... the smaller version is a straightforward re-size of the larger version which is how I always process my photos for NPN.

Peter,

"Curious, did you use the spot healing tool with content aware on the first attempt?" huh?

I didn't even know how to access content aware so I watched a quick clip on youtube that probably didn't cover the bases I needed to properly use it. Any advice would be welcomed... not that it took a long time to do it with the clone stamp and healing brush, but obviously content aware is something worth knowing how to use.

You'll love the iMac and will be at home with it quickly.

As Dennis points out the small and large versions look very different. I too prefer the darker tones of the smaller version.

Sweet pose Luke, I agree with Peter on the twig running up to this behind.

Yep, lose the little twig and its a winner Luke. Cool looking Sparrow.

Nice pose and clean green background.

Really like the starkness and simplicity of this Luke, great detail in the larger image.

cheers
Rob

Luke,

The computer stuff is not my strength either but I have successfully done the following:

For lines (like blades of grass) that you want removed, select the "spot healing brush tool" on my screen it is the 7th one down from the top on the left hand side. It is in the same group of tools as the red eye tool and healing brush tool, just click and hold the button down until it shows the whole group and then select the spot healing brush.

After you have selected it you will see some buttons across the top of the page. Make sure "content aware" is checked. Then size the brush by using the [ or ] key next to the P on the keyboard so that the circle is just bigger than the line you want to remove. Start at one end and hold the clicker down as you slide the circle over the unwanted line. I do a couple inches at a time.

Sorry if these instructions are way too simplistic but that is how I need people to tell me what to do or I get lost.

See if it works for you.

Peter

The composition works well here, Luke. All that empty space at the rhs somehow fits fine. I bet that you will really enjoy the iMac. I run both a PC and an iMac but I find the latter is in use 90% of the time.

Luke,

Always nice to see this species posted and I love how well the yellow supraloral shows in your image. Very nice eye contact too

A very special shot!

I like the pose of the bird and the clean background makes this a winner.

I love the BG on this, great shade of green.