Superb Fairy Wren

[Christopher C.M. Cooke]

Image captured Canon 30D 300mm F4 IS with 1.4X Canon Converter (420mm X 1.6crop) ISO 100, 1/800 sec, F5.6, manual exposure minimum crop.

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[John Cooper]

Great pose shown by this Superb Blue Wren Chris and featured nicely against good soft BG. I would suggest trying some Shadow/Highlight in PS to lighten up the belly & wing plumage. A bit underexposed as is.

[john jackson]

Shadow/Highlight in PS to lighten up the belly...

Wouldn't that darken the belly, as it is among the paler areas of the bird?

[Arthur Grosset]

A brilliant image of a lovely wee bird. I particularly like the symmetry of the tail, the bird's left leg and the perch.

[Simon Bennett]

A lovely crisp image with great use of depth of field that faithfully captures the blues- a little head turn to his right would have put this completely over the top - well done Christopher .

[Christopher C.M. Cooke]

Thank you all, I will continue to learn PS and hope to have it conquered by 2020 (well partially)

[Maxis Gamez]

HI Chris,

What a good looking pose on this one. The clean BG makes your subject POP. The composition works very well too!

[John Cooper]

Wouldn't that darken the belly, as it is among the paler areas of the bird?
Hi Chris - not sure if you use a late vesrion of Photoshop but I think from CS2 the Shadow/highlight tool was introduced. Selecting the Shadow slider you can throw light into just the shadowed areas - it really simulates fill-flash. There are additional sliders here that allow you to select the density of shadow that you want to adjust. A very versatile tool.

[Del Cockroft]

I agree with all above comments, but I can see a very slight halo on my screen around the beak. Over sharpening, perhaps??

[Linda Robbins]

Wonderful jaunty pose and very good composition. The clean bg is lovely. Only nit is the head angle, but still a fine image.

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

Nice image!
Great composition and BG!

[Glenn Bartley]

These guys are so cool and youve captured this one well. The BG is great too. But for me without a more natural perch this one is lacking...

[Christopher C.M. Cooke]

Hi Chris - not sure if you use a late vesrion of Photoshop but I think from CS2 the Shadow/highlight tool was introduced. Selecting the Shadow slider you can throw light into just the shadowed areas - it really simulates fill-flash. There are additional sliders here that allow you to select the density of shadow that you want to adjust. A very versatile tool.

I am using CS3 so I will give it a go.



I agree with all above comments, but I can see a very slight halo on my screen around the beak. Over sharpening, perhaps??


Only "automatic" sharpening on this, would Noise Ninja have done this?

Thank you all again.

[Christopher C.M. Cooke]

I have made the changes suggested from the original RAW file, no NS and some shadow and highlights.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/cookie99/a2.jpg

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Christopher Check the Noise Ninja settings It will sharpen Best to set it to no sharpening Love the pose Only a slight head turn for me !!! Big Congrats !!!

[Christopher C.M. Cooke]

Thanks Alfred. I am new to NN and have stuffed up a couple of good shots with it so far (only copies) so the learning curve steepens.

I will persevere.

[Fabs Forns]

Very nice, only the head turn for me :)

[Ian Colley]

Very nice image Chris, I like the composition and the pose, the image certainly conveys the characterisitcs of these birds, well done.