Tone mapped in Photomatix Pro from a single RAW exposure, exported to CS2
Almost no color adjustment in this. No levels/contrast adjustment after tone mapping. The sky was of a remarkable granularity, I actually liked it, but I thought I would get hammered for it so I masked out the gull and used neat image on the sky. I sharpened the gull itself with focus magic, which seemed to crisp up the details nicely; the bird itself is in focus and sharp, actually, but the lighting is flat.
I merged the NI layer with the base layer then did a gothic glow on the whole thing; layered that over the base, ran high pass on it, and faded it to 50%. Flattened again, cloned the base layer, loaded the BG selection, and ran some blur on it then fiddled with fading the blur until I had what seemed to be the best-looking, ominous BG.
Resize, output sharpen (very little), border, save for web. 100% jpg at 57.1 Kb, LOL
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at first: sorry! my english is not so good....
I like how the bird was placed. The light gives a special expression to the photo, nearly a little as in a "drama". the photo pleases me very well. I see a winner! Good luck! - 9 -
Very nice capture. The color tones of the gull against the forboding sky are a great combination. Not digging the border line but that wont affect my vote. Bumping up to 8
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