Post processing attempt - Butterfly

Soldato
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Firstly, this is one of my Dads shots. No credit to me for this - his shot.
I'm only using them to learn the photoshop side of things due to not having a decent camera personally. (Only my phone! - Which is capable of this).

Not sure if I've ruined it, but I tried to bring the colours of the butterfly out a bit more and keep the background from overpowering the butterfly.

I altered the levels, curves, burnt, sharpened and dodged. I personally prefer the processed one, but I might be biased! :p

Here's the original:

peacockoriginalyj0.jpg



Here is the processed one:

peacockxh6.jpg



EDIT- I looked at both images, and put together the plus points of each. This is slightly better than the 1st processed one in my opinion.

peacock2uf2.jpg



Any advice or crit is welcome.
 
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BUFF said:
If you know what a Peacock butterfly looks like in real life then the colours in the processed one are obviously wrong.
Can't say that I'm fond of the tunnel effect either & you've burnt out the top middle blade of grass.


peacock3km3.jpg
 
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