Taken at the Houston Zoo. Was a three shot HDR converted in Photomatrix.
Aperture:
- Converted to HDR using Photomatrix plug in
- Changed White balance from 5000 to 4000
- Sharpen
- Straiten
Taken to CS5
- Healing brush to fix blemishes on snake
- Changed hue and saturation for yellow and green channels (make underside more natural from the green tint it got during conversion)
Back to Aperture
- Noise ninja plug in used to reduce noise
Back to CS5
- Fixed hot pixels in back ground
Back to Aperture
- More sharpening
Exported at 800 pixel
Imported into CS5 to sharpen before submitting
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