Diane Miller
07-01-2016, 01:47 PM
... maybe just a LITTLE??
Canon 1DX2, 100-400 II + 1.4X III at 560mm, ISO 3200, 1/320 at f/13. Tripod, foggy morning.
This little guy is an occasional visitor to our feeders. I was set up for larger birds but couldn’t resist shooting him (or her??) in an uncommonly normal bird pose. This is a crop to 37% of the original frame. The detail at a high ISO and large crop speaks well of the lens and the camera.
Very basic processing. In LR I needed only some Highlight and Shadow adjustments. Then in PS I used Nik Dfine for noise, just on the BG, although I doubt the difference would show much here if I had skipped that step. The tail was not sharp so I did a High Pass layer and masked it to just the tail. This kind of sharpening on a master file is not so onerous, and is on a layer that can be turned off if it causes artifacts on resizing for various outputs. No other sharpening except the default LR uses when it resizes for Export.
Canon 1DX2, 100-400 II + 1.4X III at 560mm, ISO 3200, 1/320 at f/13. Tripod, foggy morning.
This little guy is an occasional visitor to our feeders. I was set up for larger birds but couldn’t resist shooting him (or her??) in an uncommonly normal bird pose. This is a crop to 37% of the original frame. The detail at a high ISO and large crop speaks well of the lens and the camera.
Very basic processing. In LR I needed only some Highlight and Shadow adjustments. Then in PS I used Nik Dfine for noise, just on the BG, although I doubt the difference would show much here if I had skipped that step. The tail was not sharp so I did a High Pass layer and masked it to just the tail. This kind of sharpening on a master file is not so onerous, and is on a layer that can be turned off if it causes artifacts on resizing for various outputs. No other sharpening except the default LR uses when it resizes for Export.