A bird at Cattle Point, British Columbia, Canada (5 years and 2592 days ago)
"Any subject, but only soft light colours.", there are some nice pastel colours near the top, I feel the image would be more on topic if you cut out the dark colours near the bottom and had more of the sky.
A little dodging on the bird would help this shot tremendously.
Trickier than you would expect with this photo...
Option>new layer>click.
Blend mode to overlay
50% gray
Set your range (dodging)...soft brush 7-15% and paint away
I would definitely check the guidelines on what is acceptable or not at this site before I tried a technique such as this. You can apply filters etc. that work on the entire image, but "painting" certain parts is not acceptable
I have not done any "painting" this is the raw photo.
It's a safer way to dodge and burn. Dodging and burning is a common photographers practice to enhance shadows and highlights, it's not dramatically altering the spirit of the image.
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