Jay Gould
11-29-2009, 04:08 PM
Hello from rainy Villarica, Chile where we are again dealing with unseasonable rains. We seem to be a magnet for the rain!!
This heron was shot during the second day of my wonderful three day workshop with Jim Neiger.
After processing in Lightroom - crop, straighten, black clipping removal, and highlight recovery - off to PS and the first time I have used Noise Ninja. What a wonderful program to remove noise from the background; what a laborious job (I must be doing something wrong!) to mask the bird when you only have the preview window to check that you have full coverage. Anyone using NN with usage hints please chime in.
After NN I used Pixel Genius Capture Sharpener, flattened, and then used Viveza to, among other processing, lighten only the heron and darken the tree on the right and the perch.
Catch light added.
Finally saved as a psd, reopend, sized, applied Output Sharpener, and ........
Camera: 50D
Capture date/time: 29 Sep 09; late afternoon
Light condition: clear
Lens: 300 f/2.8
Focal length: 420mm
Extender: 1.4X
Tube: none
Flash/Comp: no;
ISO: 500
Exp Prog: Manual
Speed: 1/1000 sec
Aperture: f/6.3
Exp Comp: 0
Metering: Evaluative
WB: Auto
AF Drive: AI Servo
Tripod: no
Filter: None
Crop: 4752x3168 to 2396x2801
All C&Cs gratefully appreciated!
This heron was shot during the second day of my wonderful three day workshop with Jim Neiger.
After processing in Lightroom - crop, straighten, black clipping removal, and highlight recovery - off to PS and the first time I have used Noise Ninja. What a wonderful program to remove noise from the background; what a laborious job (I must be doing something wrong!) to mask the bird when you only have the preview window to check that you have full coverage. Anyone using NN with usage hints please chime in.
After NN I used Pixel Genius Capture Sharpener, flattened, and then used Viveza to, among other processing, lighten only the heron and darken the tree on the right and the perch.
Catch light added.
Finally saved as a psd, reopend, sized, applied Output Sharpener, and ........
Camera: 50D
Capture date/time: 29 Sep 09; late afternoon
Light condition: clear
Lens: 300 f/2.8
Focal length: 420mm
Extender: 1.4X
Tube: none
Flash/Comp: no;
ISO: 500
Exp Prog: Manual
Speed: 1/1000 sec
Aperture: f/6.3
Exp Comp: 0
Metering: Evaluative
WB: Auto
AF Drive: AI Servo
Tripod: no
Filter: None
Crop: 4752x3168 to 2396x2801
All C&Cs gratefully appreciated!