Bob Pelkey
09-04-2011, 07:52 PM
99858
Moderately cropped, tripod, Camera Raw: fill light 3, blacks 8, brightness +73, contrast +33, clarity +15, sharpening 68, radius 1.0, detail 25, masking 0, NR Luminance 25, lum. detail 50, lum. contrast 0, color 25, color detail 50, filter: smart sharpen 72%, radius .3, unsharp mask 68%, .3 pixels, threshold 4 levels, slight CCW rotation to make the image appear level although it was beforehand.
Didn't expect to have so much fun on a gloomy heavily overcast morning. I wasn't particularly interested in this heron until it started flying in my direction. Have had enough practice to be responsive to get what I believe near correct exposure compensation in this case. There is drizzle in the frame with the largest water droplets from the bird itself as it approached me. I was tempted to do a heavy dose of noise reduction on the background. There is no additional canvas on the left of the frame to work with. The above workflow was done in about three minutes.
Great Blue Heron at Bunche Beach Preserve
Fort Myers, Florida USA
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Full EXIF Info
Date/Time
31-Aug-2011 10:10:24
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS-1D Mark III
Flash Used
No
Focal Length
840 mm
Exposure Time
1/1000 sec
Aperture
f/5.6
ISO Equivalent
800
Exposure Bias
-1
White Balance
Metering Mode
matrix (5)
JPEG Quality
Exposure Program
aperture priority (3)
Focus Distance
56.7 m
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Moderately cropped, tripod, Camera Raw: fill light 3, blacks 8, brightness +73, contrast +33, clarity +15, sharpening 68, radius 1.0, detail 25, masking 0, NR Luminance 25, lum. detail 50, lum. contrast 0, color 25, color detail 50, filter: smart sharpen 72%, radius .3, unsharp mask 68%, .3 pixels, threshold 4 levels, slight CCW rotation to make the image appear level although it was beforehand.
Didn't expect to have so much fun on a gloomy heavily overcast morning. I wasn't particularly interested in this heron until it started flying in my direction. Have had enough practice to be responsive to get what I believe near correct exposure compensation in this case. There is drizzle in the frame with the largest water droplets from the bird itself as it approached me. I was tempted to do a heavy dose of noise reduction on the background. There is no additional canvas on the left of the frame to work with. The above workflow was done in about three minutes.
Great Blue Heron at Bunche Beach Preserve
Fort Myers, Florida USA
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Full EXIF Info
Date/Time
31-Aug-2011 10:10:24
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS-1D Mark III
Flash Used
No
Focal Length
840 mm
Exposure Time
1/1000 sec
Aperture
f/5.6
ISO Equivalent
800
Exposure Bias
-1
White Balance
Metering Mode
matrix (5)
JPEG Quality
Exposure Program
aperture priority (3)
Focus Distance
56.7 m
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