Post your best bird shots!

[Fast Glass]

Hey Joel,


I know you don't care for a very saturated image but I thought this one needed some more punch.


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Thats the original.


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And this is the edited version, I tried to keep a light hand on the saturation. But you know me![]


I used DXO and applied levels, tone curve, saturation andused HLS to selectively applysaturation to certain colors. The red border was applied when I used screan snipping tool to make a screen capture because my paid version of DXO is still in the mail and I'm to lazy to re-download and instal DXO.[:P]


What do you think?


John.

[Joel Eade]

John,


You certainly made it pretty !! Nothing wrong with what you did, I like the colorful look but it is no where close to what it looks like to my eyes in real life.


I would like to try DXO sometime, I have heard some good things about it.


Joel

[Joel Eade]

Here is another recent image from the yard ..... a little more saturated !! I was lucky to get a sharp image at 1/250.


1DMKIII


300mm 2.8L IS USM + 1.4TC II


ISO 1000


f/7.1


1/250





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[Fast Glass]

like the colorful look but it is no where close to what it looks like to my eyes in real life.

Thats what I figured, in overcast light the colors are a lot more flat and undersaturated than in sunny 16 lighting....[] But my version is definitely a little more saturated than real life.

I would like to try DXO sometime, I have heard some good things about it.

Well you'll here one more good thing about it, it's awesome! The noise reduction and color redering is the best that I have tried so far. Here is a link to the trial version to get you started http://www.dxo.com/intl/photo/trial_version. Hope you like it.[Y]


John.

[neuroanatomist]

I would like to try DXO sometime, I have heard some good things about it.

I really like it. A while back, I compared DxO to DPP.

[ddt0725]

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Thats the original.


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Here's my version using a more subtle setting in DxO but stil shows some color (needa RAW to do more)...

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I hope you don't mind! I know I'm not very good at it but thought I'd give it a try!

You guys are making me want to gostand outside in 5 degree weatherand wait for a bird to appear ...and it takes ALOT to get me to want to do that!

Denise