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Photo of the Day May 2018

I saw this guy and a few others hanging out on the side of the road yesterday.

Musk Ox B&W by mrkramer, on Flickr

I was playing around with editing it, and decided to go for mostly black and white, but leaving in a bit of green where the new grass is starting to grow, I'm not sure if that was the best choice for editing, and I'm definitely open to comments or critiques.
 
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mrkramer said:
I saw this guy and a few others hanging out on the side of the road yesterday.

Musk Ox B&W by mrkramer, on Flickr

I was playing around with editing it, and decided to go for mostly black and white, but leaving in a bit of green where the new grass is starting to grow, I'm not sure if that was the best choice for editing, and I'm definitely open to comments or critiques.
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First off, ask for "constructive critiques!"

Personally, I don't think the selective colour being left in place of a little bit of the green grass has worked effectively here. Selective colour usually works well when it highlights a subject or part of a subject within an image and here, the Musk Ox is the subject, not the new season grass. Had you have taken a different image, where the grass was the main focus, it could have worked.

If you really want to play with selective colour here, I'd make it the Musk Ox in colour and all else in B&W.

From a technical point of view, try spot metering on the Musk Ox next time, this way it should have all the detail to it, avoiding the blocked up shadows that it currently has. If the background blows out that doesn't really matter, it is after all an image about the Musk Ox first and foremost.

From a composition point of view, getting yourself much further over to the left would have allowed us to see the eye and face detail better. I realise that sometimes we can't accomplish these things, what looks like it may just require moving twenty metres to the left could in fact be moving a couple of hundred metres to the left and there could be obstacles in the way, making it impossible. Nonetheless, always work your subject as best as you can.
 
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Alexander.Of.Oz said:
First off, ask for "constructive critiques!"
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Good point.

Alexander.Of.Oz said:
Personally, I don't think the selective colour being left in place of a little bit of the green grass has worked effectively here. Selective colour usually works well when it highlights a subject or part of a subject within an image and here, the Musk Ox is the subject, not the new season grass. Had you have taken a different image, where the grass was the main focus, it could have worked.

If you really want to play with selective colour here, I'd make it the Musk Ox in colour and all else in B&W.
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I don’t disagree with that opinion, I wasn’t sure that the selective color was working. I only tried it because I felt that it didn’t work well in all black and white, and the musk ox is the same color as most of the grass is. If you want to see another that is in full color and let me know which way would have been best you can follow the link to my Flickr account and there is another one there.

Alexander.Of.Oz said:
From a composition point of view, getting yourself much further over to the left would have allowed us to see the eye and face detail better. I realise that sometimes we can't accomplish these things, what looks like it may just require moving twenty metres to the left could in fact be moving a couple of hundred metres to the left and there could be obstacles in the way, making it impossible. Nonetheless, always work your subject as best as you can.
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I probably could have moved a bit more, I was shooting from the road and how it goes from there wouldn’t have gotten me a much better angle.
 
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mrkramer said:
Good point.

I don’t disagree with that opinion, I wasn’t sure that the selective color was working. I only tried it because I felt that it didn’t work well in all black and white, and the musk ox is the same color as most of the grass is. If you want to see another that is in full color and let me know which way would have been best you can follow the link to my Flickr account and there is another one there.

I probably could have moved a bit more, I was shooting from the road and how it goes from there wouldn’t have gotten me a much better angle.
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I'm gonna post the reply to this over in the Critics Corner thread, as it's got some detailed examples of what I did in Lightroom in regards to the settings and a few images to illustrate that for you.

I'm home sick with the man flu, so had a bit of time to quickly do an edit for you.
 
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keyrex said:
I would give anything (almost) to have him in my garden, i would even consider hanging a sparrow from the feeder!! Not sure if thats illegal though ;)
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Possibly not. Mrs AFB would seek you out and kill you anyway!

Anyway here is another of the big fella.
_DSC1299 by apple fanboy1, on Flickr
Based on Mr sniffles (sorry I mean @Alexander.Of.Oz!) excellent post I decided to have a go at a mask layer.
Problem is
1. last of skill.
2 Awful lag on my mac.
 
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Apple fanboy said:
_DSC1299 by apple fanboy1, on Flickr
Based on Mr sniffles (sorry I mean @Alexander.Of.Oz!) excellent post I decided to have a go at a mask layer.
Problem is
1. last of skill.
2 Awful lag on my mac.
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You did well, there's a nice dark background and good separation of the subject from it! It's a majestic bird!

Keep in mind Peter's suggestion in the other thread of using the masking when applying your sharpening, if you don't already. You can also selectively sharpen areas too through the use of the brush tool, further refining its application through luminosity or colour selection refinements once you have brushed it on.
 
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