Glenn Pure
09-14-2017, 10:48 PM
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An immature robin taken a few years ago with my old camera and lens. I had a shot with the bird's head neutral and one eye towards me but I liked this head angle and pose better. I've cloned out a twig on the right of the frame. Taken near Eden on the south coast of New South Wales.
Technical: Canon 700 D with EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM (Mark I) at 400mm handheld. Aperture priority 1/100 sec, f8, ISO 800. Processed in Canon DPP 4 (digital lens optimiser @ 50, sharpness = 3, crop, lighting adjustments, default NR) then exported 16 bit TIFF to Photoshop Elements with Neat Image NR plugin. Very light NR applied to birds in focus and stronger NR to background. Shadows lifted selectively on bird and midtone contrast added. Additional shadow lift on eye. Sharpened in PSE (Sharpness tool 0.3 pixels @ 50%) after final size reduction.
An immature robin taken a few years ago with my old camera and lens. I had a shot with the bird's head neutral and one eye towards me but I liked this head angle and pose better. I've cloned out a twig on the right of the frame. Taken near Eden on the south coast of New South Wales.
Technical: Canon 700 D with EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM (Mark I) at 400mm handheld. Aperture priority 1/100 sec, f8, ISO 800. Processed in Canon DPP 4 (digital lens optimiser @ 50, sharpness = 3, crop, lighting adjustments, default NR) then exported 16 bit TIFF to Photoshop Elements with Neat Image NR plugin. Very light NR applied to birds in focus and stronger NR to background. Shadows lifted selectively on bird and midtone contrast added. Additional shadow lift on eye. Sharpened in PSE (Sharpness tool 0.3 pixels @ 50%) after final size reduction.