John Chardine
01-11-2009, 07:27 PM
This is an American Goldfinch in basic, winter plumage from my feeder in Sackville, New Brunswick.
This was one of those images where the subject was not the problem, the BG was. I have tried to de-emphasise same by evening out the lighting (dodge and burn), some mild cloning, desat, and Gaussian Blur. I could have made it look like a studio backdrop but this is as far as I was willing to go. As luck would have it there's a Jackpine leaf sticking out of the back of the bird. Oh well. I cropped the image and sharpened. That's it. The under-tail whites are not blown BTW.
Comments welcome of course!
Canon EOS 50D, 500/4
capture date: Saturday, 10 January, 2009 2:47 PM
exposure program: Aperture Priority
ISO speed: 400
shutter speed: 1/200
aperture: f8.0
exposure bias: -0.3
metering: Pattern
flash: OFF
This was one of those images where the subject was not the problem, the BG was. I have tried to de-emphasise same by evening out the lighting (dodge and burn), some mild cloning, desat, and Gaussian Blur. I could have made it look like a studio backdrop but this is as far as I was willing to go. As luck would have it there's a Jackpine leaf sticking out of the back of the bird. Oh well. I cropped the image and sharpened. That's it. The under-tail whites are not blown BTW.
Comments welcome of course!
Canon EOS 50D, 500/4
capture date: Saturday, 10 January, 2009 2:47 PM
exposure program: Aperture Priority
ISO speed: 400
shutter speed: 1/200
aperture: f8.0
exposure bias: -0.3
metering: Pattern
flash: OFF