Thank you to both Joel & Bob to help all of us become better bird photographers!! You have really gone the extra mile for the rest of us and it is extremely appreciated!!
Denise
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Thank you to both Joel & Bob to help all of us become better bird photographers!! You have really gone the extra mile for the rest of us and it is extremely appreciated!!
Denise
At Jan,
I was think the same aspect ratio and keeping it in horizontal, but much tighter. Also keeping the rule of thirds.
Hope that helps,
John.
Jan, wow, that's a quality bird, very nice shots, also like the bokeh produced by the 5D2+ 400mm 2.8 combo!
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Originally Posted by Joel Eade
yes, this white bird is a lot whiter than I thought especially in a sunny day.
and yes, thanks Bob and Joel for your hard work!
John, here's the new crop. I sure need to learn some bird post processing tips though. I'm working at 100% view now and the sharpness could be increased a bit, but the noise gets more visible at this view. ISO800 I know...
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6036/...0379d44b_z.jpg
Thanks JJ, the bokeh is very nice indeed. The shots are all at f5 or f5.6 so not even wide open. It was an amazing lens, albeit I got some muscle pains the other day ;) I now get why someone would spend so much on a lens :)
Jan...great owl shots. I really like #3 in your original post and the one above...but all are great.
Jan,
I like the crop on this one. As for processing....the bird looks a little washed out...you could try a curves adjustment to increase the midtone contrast a bit and also under selective color you can choose the "neutrals" then increase the black slider just a few points. I would get rid of the stalk of grass and also would try to eliminate the out of focus fence post as well.
You could try running a gentle setting of the noise reduction filter on the whole image but it would better to do that only on the background because you risk losing detail in the bird.( I don
Thanks Brant :D
Joel, WOW these few steps were so easy to do and in my opinion they worked great!
I have to tweak a few things, but I absolutely love your tips. Luckily I got an email notification so I can just safe the email with the tips :)
This is my second attempt, like 5 minutes work, removing the fence was too much for me though. Out of my league at this point.
http://www.actieinbeeld.nl/tdp/owl.jpg
Much better! Thats exactly what I had in mind.
Cheers,
John.
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Here's a 3 minute attempt at that...
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Just practicing with content-aware fill in CS5.
Haha I will not post what happened in my attempt at content aware fill, let