I just read Trey Ratcliff’s new eBook – Composing the Photo: Creating Order from Chaos – Bonus Edition. It full of great information. I hope that it will help me understand why some of my photos are so much more popular than the others. I need to reread it to soak up all the information.
I took this photo at the Tualatin River NWR in May. I used my Nikon D700 camera and rented the Nikon 600mm f/4 AF-S II lens. I cropped according to the Golden Rule as outlined in the Composing the Photo eBook in Lightroom. I then tonemapped it using HDR Photomatix Pro. After that I ran it through Topaz Adjust’s filter Portrait Smooth. I then tweaked the colors in Photoshop by reducing the Hue/Saturation on both yellow and blue. I finally ran it through Noiseware to get the last of the noise out of the bokeh background. Last of all, I increased the size of the photo to its original size using Genuine Fractals. What do you think?
