Ben Page
01-13-2008, 12:09 PM
Hi all,
This is my first post here and am eager to learn!
I photographed this Starlilng last January whilst sat in a small, pop up hide in my back garden. The Starling's sat on a small apple tree shouting it's head off and it was a chance image, I was trying to get photos of greenfinches at the nearby seed feeders at the time.
It was an overcast day and I was using the under expose by a 1/3rd rule at the time (whereas now I use the expose to the right rule for exposure). Which means there was a lot of noise in the blacks, but I processed this out with Neat Image.
So, processing done was: in Lightroom, +0.86 exposure, no blacks or tone curve (or any other tweaks), set white balance to cloudy. Export to tif and in photoshop process out the noise with Neat Image, add a slight S curve for tone and 5% highlight using the Shadow/Highlight tool, a little Smart Sharpen once resized for upload. No cropping has been done, this is full frame out of the camera.
I like this image as I feel it shows the Starlings character off, but I'm wondering if there's anything else you experts out there would do to improve it.
EXIF: Canon 1D Mk2N, Canon 100-400 @ 380mm, 1/500 sec at f/6.3, ISO 400, auto white balance, AV mode, no flash, tripod.
Many thanks in advance for any comments.
Cheers,
Ben
This is my first post here and am eager to learn!
I photographed this Starlilng last January whilst sat in a small, pop up hide in my back garden. The Starling's sat on a small apple tree shouting it's head off and it was a chance image, I was trying to get photos of greenfinches at the nearby seed feeders at the time.
It was an overcast day and I was using the under expose by a 1/3rd rule at the time (whereas now I use the expose to the right rule for exposure). Which means there was a lot of noise in the blacks, but I processed this out with Neat Image.
So, processing done was: in Lightroom, +0.86 exposure, no blacks or tone curve (or any other tweaks), set white balance to cloudy. Export to tif and in photoshop process out the noise with Neat Image, add a slight S curve for tone and 5% highlight using the Shadow/Highlight tool, a little Smart Sharpen once resized for upload. No cropping has been done, this is full frame out of the camera.
I like this image as I feel it shows the Starlings character off, but I'm wondering if there's anything else you experts out there would do to improve it.
EXIF: Canon 1D Mk2N, Canon 100-400 @ 380mm, 1/500 sec at f/6.3, ISO 400, auto white balance, AV mode, no flash, tripod.
Many thanks in advance for any comments.
Cheers,
Ben