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Posts Tagged “Birds”

Site Updates 28/12/17

Well I’ve finally got around to updating the site. I’ve increased the number of slides on the Home screen, this and a few more. 2. The Fauna section now has Wildlife of Britain, Costa Rica and Kenya added, again this and more 3. I’ve tried to use the galleries by Supsystic and they were giving…

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December 28 2017 Kevin Agar
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Processing for Birds – Cropping

I think I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve heard someone say they haven’t done any post processing because they don’t know how to. The usual comment is ‘I have a copy of Photoshop (insert version here) but when I open it the interface is very busy and I don’t know where to…

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December 15 2017 Kevin Agar
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Processing for Birds – Replacing a blown sky

I was asked recently on one of my posts how I replaced a blown sky. Here is my solution to the problem. It’s not the perfect answer but is how I do it, and it could probably be done a number of different ways. Sorry this is for Photoshop, but if someone would like to…

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December 15 2017 Kevin Agar
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Processing for Birds – Masking

Recently I was asked if I knew of a decent tutorial on Masking. I had a quick look via google but didn’t come up with anything related to bird photography Post Processing (Actually I didn’t look very hard)I decided that it would probably be easier if I tried to explain what I do in the…

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December 15 2017 Kevin Agar
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Processing for Birds – Removing those unwanted distractions

In a perfect bird photography world the subject would be nicely composed, well exposed and sharp with a nice out of focus background. If only that was always the case. Usually there are distracting elements in the shot, such as these There are several ways to remove them, including cloning, patching and healing. I’ve tried…

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December 14 2017 Kevin Agar
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Processing for Birds – Workflow for enhancing, noise reduction, resizing, and sharpening for the web

I was asked in 2010 to describe my workflow and tips for processing the images from the camera. This is my revised workflow, it’s not perfect and many will think it’s too much effort, but each to their own.  This is written for Lightroom and Photoshop but could easily be done in other software packages. …

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November 10 2017 Kevin Agar
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