How about this King of the Jungle?

[Parrotrosie]

I so enjoyed all the edits of my daughter's skate photo...I thought I might pull some shots from my old sony cybershot for playing with. Nature and macro are my favorite things. I shot this at the Philadelphia Zoo before the rehab and now all the cats are behind glass or fencing....can't get any good shots any more. I am posting the original un-processed original and my very first attempt (from what I gleaned from you wise folks) at post processing. Feel free to critique and have your own fun with the pics!:mrgreen:

1 Original shot

2 Processed....what do you all think? too much? not enough?

 

[PNA]

I gave it a shot.....Nice capture BTW.

 

[notoriouslightning]

I like the first one, but I do think the second is to much IMO.

 

[MelodySoul]

Here's my try. I also removed the other lion in the background.

 

[LaFoto]

Parrotrosie, as to your own edition ... I like how you worked on the colours, but I feel you overdid the sharpening just a tad, your edit is now "moving" in front of my eye (sort of, you know, seems to be doing teensy-weensy pulsations, don't know if others know that effect to their own eyes with oversharpened photos ... and I don't know a better way to express myself and describe the sensation).

 

[Parrotrosie]

Lol...I agree its overdone. I used the Unsharp mask tool. It's hard to tell while you are working...but as soon as I saw it side by side to the original I thought.....nope...too much...Thanks for the honesty:hug::

I think I overdid the colors as well....

I was afraid to go for the removal of the female lion this time around...nice job on that LaFoto!

I guess I went too much for 'pretty colors' and really should have been shooting for 'getting the greytones out'

Well, so long as you are all willing I have quite a few from my point and shoot I would like to play with to learn this post processing skill. I have a cannon 20d waiting for me to figure it out....I can't wait

 

[LaFoto]

Pssst. You must say thanks to MelodySoul for the cloning job, i.e. taking the lioness out of the picture.

 

[BoblyBill]

What about something like this?

 

[Parrotrosie]

Pssst. You must say thanks to MelodySoul for the cloning job, i.e. taking the lioness out of the picture.

D'OH! Thanks Melody! My Bad! Thanks to Melody for removing the lioness and thanks to LaFoto for the kind and honest comments...:blulsh2:

That's a nice one too Bobly...softening the background to bring the Lion more into prominence plus the tight crop...interesting

I love to see everyone's creative ideas! Thanks! I will post another one shortly

 

[mstephens]

might be a little overdone for some peoplet this is what i came out with.

 

[Parrotrosie]

Ooh...I kindof like that! That would be a way to tie a series of photos together that may not otherwise go together (I am thinking for hanging in my home...)

That is a cool effect...How did you achieve it? Contrast and brightness? or something else?

 

[mstephens]

i just played with curves alot, did some color adjustments and some dodging and burning. i also added a little vignette.

 

[thinkricky]

might be a little overdone for some peoplet this is what i came out with.

I like it. I think the Eyes need to be brought out a bit more. Looks good. :thumbup: How did you do the darker border? Burn tool all around?

 

[jerry 1 a b]

Woohoo! Finally something I can help with!

I borrowed from two previous posts....

:mrgreen:

 

[Bifurcator]

I so enjoyed all the edits of my daughter's skate photo...I thought I might pull some shots from my old sony cybershot for playing with. Nature and macro are my favorite things. I shot this at the Philadelphia Zoo before the rehab and now all the cats are behind glass or fencing....can't get any good shots any more. I am posting the original un-processed original and my very first attempt (from what I gleaned from you wise folks) at post processing. Feel free to critique and have your own fun with the pics!:mrgreen:

1 Original shot

2 Processed....what do you all think? too much? not enough?

I think way too much yellow.

Mine's prolly no better but here goes: