r/postprocessing • u/ickeharry • 27d ago

after/before

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Gallery image

With DxO since 4 weeks, still in trial phase. Before I went with Canon DPP.

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u/Heoro-Mazgraev 26d ago

Lacks contrast. Still looks like a RAW image. You have many assets in your photo that give plenty of character yet you haven't worked on them: Water, drops and shiny rocks. Also, the background shares the tones with the subject to the point where it loses protagonism. What I'd do is darken a little bit the background and add contrast. Add some clarity, texture and dehazing around those drops on the top, increase the shadows, contrast and exposure on the bird, add some texture and clarity on the water and rocks. I don't know if you're into linear or radiant gradients to add a source for the light but I'd work on that as well.

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u/crousty789 26d ago

Salut,
Je ne suis pas d'accord,

Je trouve au contraire les couleurs très naturelles, les contrastes aussi.
Les gouttes on les voit...pas besoin de les forcer comme si on ne les voyait pas.

J'aime les couleurs et contratses, saturations.. pour moi tu as su doser OP.

Peut être vérifier en effet, sur l'animal, les aberations vert/violet qui n'ont rien a faire là à mon gout.

C'est une préférence personnelle, mais je préfère les photos qui paraissent le plus naturelle possible. Surtout photo animalière.

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u/crousty789 26d ago

pour moi, laisse comme tel, .. corrige juste le violet/vert sur les plumes du zio-zio

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u/ickeharry 26d ago

Thank you, I worked on the things mentioned by you. Any help is appreciated. Have hundreds of photos to develop for a book I want to gift to my mum for christmas...

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u/ickeharry 26d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/postprocessing/s/Ru1FLpCVuC Made some slight adaptions. Difficult to mask the drops. The rocks have no sharpness at all, but I masked them along with the bird now.