Glenn Pure
01-22-2018, 12:48 AM
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I've been going through my New Zealand shots from early last year and thought I'd give this one a go. Not an ideal flight shot since the bird is flying away but I liked the atmosphere and effect of the pale grey water, soft light and almost monochrome looks of this as well as the nice sharpness on the bird. I've had to do a little work on the head (dark bits) to create some separation for the eye which almost blended in. Very little cropping to achieve this.
Thank you for looking and for any comments you are kind enough to share.
Technical: Canon 80D with EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM at 400mm handheld. Manual exposure 1/2000 sec, f7.1, ISO 800. Processed in Canon DPP 4 (digital lens optimiser @ 50, sharpness = 3, crop, lighting adjustments, NR) then exported 16 bit TIFF to Photoshop Elements with Neat Image NR plugin. Modest NR to bird and stronger NR to background. Bird only sharpened in PSE (Sharpness tool, remove Gaussian Blur: 0.6 pixels at 50%) after final size reduction.
I've been going through my New Zealand shots from early last year and thought I'd give this one a go. Not an ideal flight shot since the bird is flying away but I liked the atmosphere and effect of the pale grey water, soft light and almost monochrome looks of this as well as the nice sharpness on the bird. I've had to do a little work on the head (dark bits) to create some separation for the eye which almost blended in. Very little cropping to achieve this.
Thank you for looking and for any comments you are kind enough to share.
Technical: Canon 80D with EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM at 400mm handheld. Manual exposure 1/2000 sec, f7.1, ISO 800. Processed in Canon DPP 4 (digital lens optimiser @ 50, sharpness = 3, crop, lighting adjustments, NR) then exported 16 bit TIFF to Photoshop Elements with Neat Image NR plugin. Modest NR to bird and stronger NR to background. Bird only sharpened in PSE (Sharpness tool, remove Gaussian Blur: 0.6 pixels at 50%) after final size reduction.