Originally Posted by
Christina S
Hi John,
Thank you for demonstrating another edit. I don't mind at all because this is a learning forum I think it is nice for others to see different versions of images and learn different ways of post processing. (including me)
It is a nice edit, a little contrasty and dark for my personal preferences but I do like it, except for the tongue (overdone!)
I'm actually very fond of the grass across the face in this particular shot. As to turning my cute bear into a ferocious bear well he/she is still cute... You certainly made the flies in the ear stand out. :)
You seem to be very fond of post processing so I am going to send you a raw image to tackle if you feel like it. It is an adorable image that I am about to trash because it has several issues including a green cast, too strong highlights/glare (possibly from the fence) on the front paw and right hand side of the bear, and blurry leaves on portions of the bear that I have tried to clone out. I can manage the blurry fly but not the leaves or the grass.
Here is my best attempt. In trying to fix the colour cast I believe I made the image too red.
Aside.... This colour balance tool is new to me, and I see that even the slightest adjustment to the colour, ie; adding cyan or magenta makes very tall skinny spikes in the histogram which can't be a good thing for image quality?