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Hi,
I decided that maybe it was time to share some of my AP work. I recently discovered some files I thought I had lost of photos I took in New York when on holiday a few years ago (shot on an EOS 400d, about 10mp).
 
Surprised at how the pigeon came out, I was originally going for something quite subtle but out of curiosity put its through tone mapping. Can a pigeon be heroic?
 
Any suggestions?  whenever I tried to make them less extreme they lost all impact.
 
Steve
 
 
Edit: I've now made them smaller....

Hi,
I decided that maybe it was time to share some of my AP work. I recently discovered some files I thought I had lost of photos I took in New York when on holiday a few years ago (shot on an EOS 400d, about 10mp).
 
Surprised at how the pigeon came out, I was originally going for something quite subtle but out of curiosity put its through tone mapping. Can a pigeon be heroic?
 
Any suggestions?  whenever I tried to make them less extreme they lost all impact.
 
Steve
 
 
Edit: I've now made them smaller....

Hi,
does anyone have recommendations for decent plugins for use in AP. I'm a new comer to photo editing and have never used Photoshop so haven't got a 'library' of plugins.
I assume that many plugins are just shortcuts for doing what could be done through AP but are any able to do things that would otherwise not be possible?
 
thanks in advance,
Steve

Hi,
does anyone have recommendations for decent plugins for use in AP. I'm a new comer to photo editing and have never used Photoshop so haven't got a 'library' of plugins.
I assume that many plugins are just shortcuts for doing what could be done through AP but are any able to do things that would otherwise not be possible?
 
thanks in advance,
Steve