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I've been weeding though some of my old photos and came across this image from 2005..one of my favourites..for me at least a fitting way to end the year. Lets hope for a lot of obliging birds in 2010.
It's been a great year with BPN.
D70
Sigma 50-500
f6.3
1/1000
handheld
fixed chest area, heavy shadow
no iso in exif
Great low angle and eye contact. Nice detail as well.
I like the angle and look-back pose. It would be even stronger with the bird angled toward you. I might crop a tad off the top.
Paul, very nice. I'm still hoping to get a summer plumage image of a loon. It's nice to see one of your Sigma 50-500mm images.
Paul:
Nice loon here, sharp with good color showing on the neck. Wish pupil was just a bit more distinct, but that is how they look at times.
Might try to do a version with the background selected and the exposure lowered just enough to reduce the bright highlights on the water a bit to reduce their tendency to pull the eye away from the bird.
Merry Christmas
Randy
Paul:
I had a minute, and made a couple of small adjustments.
Opened in ACR, and used the recovery slider to get rid of the blown highlights in the whites
Quick masked the bird, brought it up just a bit with curves, then inverted the selection and made a very small downward curves adjustment on the background.
Just an option for you.
Thanks everyone..will try some of the ideas..What is ACR?
Paul:
ACR = Adobe Camera Raw. It is the converting software for raw files in Photoshop.
Cheers
Randy
LOLOL..I must have been brain dead last night..duh, should have gotten that one...
Randy back in 2005, I never photographed using RAW..still don't use it often even now. I've seen the light, recently though and have been experimenting with RAW and TIFF.
Thanks
