Thanks, Marnie. I agree with you - the second is pretty cluttered, but it was the best angle I got on all 4 of them. And, I did attempt to clone out the near, blurry branch... but it is tricky. Decided to burn it in a bit for now, maybe I'll take another shot at cloning...
(I wonder, for those of you who operate CS5 & above, would you call that a good candidate for content-aware fill? I'm using CS4...) :) -c On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 12:04 PM, <eactiv...@aol.com> wrote: > First one is a definite AWWWW. Second a little too much obscures. > > You know since the first is a real winner, if it was me, I'd simply clone > out (with nest material) the out of focus branch that detracts from the > baby's head. Or, at least, I'd try. Might be difficult. > > Marnie aka Doe :-) > > In a message dated 5/18/2013 7:54:25 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > ch...@inielsen.net writes: > Anyway, I ended up with one or two that I like: > http://www.christinenielsen.com/sharing/h5fc506ae#h5fc505cc > I used the 60-250, and cropped pretty heavily... I think the image > held up ok, considering... what do you think? > > Unfortunately, there might be a sad ending to this tale... yesterday, > I didn't see mama in the nest except once in the morning. No little > beaks or tufty heads peeking out of the nest all day, either. And > nothing today. I fear the worst... that my snooping on them may have > spooked mama, or tipped off a crow or other predator to a tasty lunch. > :( > > A shame, since I was hoping that mama would stick around & give me > some pointers on shoving younguns out of the nest... > > -c > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.