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    Default A golden cold morning

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    Double-crested Cormorant (I think?) soaking up the golden morning rays

    After spending the later part of the week admiring the beautiful winter sunrises from my car during my morning commute, I decided it was only right to get up before dawn this morning to experience it with a camera in hand.

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    Beautiful soft early morning light makes the picture to be outstanding, Jamie.
    It was worth to get up early.

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    Absolutely stunning !!!!!

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    Beautiful, warm glow to this image. Brings forth such lovely feather details.

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    nice pose and light, I might sharpen the body feather more. I wish you had a more natural perch, would clean up the droppings

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    Hi Jamie,
    sweet light, nice pose , comp is ok, evtl going vertical would work better. I do feel it is a bit tight on bottom.Watch for sharpening halo along the back and the blacks are looking a bit choked.

    Nice one TFS Andreas

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    Lovely shot absolutely beautiful lighting, very good shot indeed but I have a couple of suggestions for you to consider.
    Maybe add a little more space at the base I appreciate you may have not done so deliberately but if you did I would suggest toning down the perch a little also.
    If you did not apply a small amount of NR to the bird I would do so before sharpening and then maybe increase the sharpening a tad. The background looks great.

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    Wonderful image. It's perfect for me.

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    Hi Jamie, I think I know this spot, although it looks fab here, love the warm tones and richness.

    Would like more space below, good to see that 'emerald' eye. In this instance I agree the poo needs to go. Perhaps a slight curves adj on the blacks for a hint more richness, but masked.

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    Thanks for the feedback and I appreciate your suggestions.

    I am not a huge fan of unnatural perches, i.e. so called hand of man components to an image, so therefore wanted to keep the presence minimal without upsetting the composition of the image. These guys live on river banks and love the man made perches from the local shipping lanes. Hard to find them anywhere else to be honest. Portrait wasn't possible here IMO due to the positioning of the Cormorant on the perch - would have lacked space on the right.

    This is almost full frame besides a slight crop that was made when I levelled the image to fix the horizon.

    As for the blacks, I took the 1400px file back into LR4 and checked for the blacks, see following screenshot showing the blacks. Should I base my judgement of blacks on this or push them further to the right to get more detail if my eye thinks the blacks are still too black? I didn't want to push the blacks too far as I liked the contrast due to the early morning light.

    What causes a sharpening halo? I sharpen using a mask after I've applied NR on BG and then apply a low opacity USM to the images in stages to avoid over sharpening. I don't get what causes the halo

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    Hi Jamie,
    how do you resize your images for web? What tools available in PS do you use?

    Cheers Andreas

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andreas Liedmann View Post
    Hi Jamie,
    how do you resize your images for web? What tools available in PS do you use?

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    Hi Andrea, I will typically resize the image and then apply NR and sharpening before saving for web. I had a read into halos last night and get what causes them now. Strange that the halo would be visible along the back and not the rest of the bird, a little confused at that one considering less sharpening was applied along the back than say the head area and breast.

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    Hi Jamie , HOW do you resize, what command do you use ,or what tool ?

    THink you have two options , with some sub options to resize an image.

    Cheers Andreas
    The halos almost always appear in high contrast areas.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andreas Liedmann View Post
    Hi Jamie , HOW do you resize, what command do you use ,or what tool ?

    THink you have two options , with some sub options to resize an image.

    Cheers Andreas
    The halos almost always appear in high contrast areas.
    I resize using image - image size and then apply NR and USM as separate layers before then clicking file save for web.

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    Hi Jamie,
    duplicate the USM layer , blend mode 1st layer set to darken 100 % , 2nd set to lighten and reduce opacity to 50% and group them together, opacity set to taste. Just try if this works for you.

    Good luck ;Andreas

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andreas Liedmann View Post
    Hi Jamie,
    duplicate the USM layer , blend mode 1st layer set to darken 100 % , 2nd set to lighten and reduce opacity to 50% and group them together, opacity set to taste. Just try if this works for you.

    Good luck ;Andreas
    Thanks Andreas, when you say "group them together" do you mean link the layers or merge the layers?

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    Hi Jamie, group them together means.

    CMD (MAC) or CTRL (WIN) and click the two sharpened layers, that both are active.
    CMD (MAC) or CTRL (WIN) and G on the keyboard (shortcut for make a group from layer/s.)
    Then you have a group (name it sharpen)
    You can individually set the opacity to taste (Layers and /or Group, so a lot of choices or options)

    Hope this helps

    Cheers Andreas

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andreas Liedmann View Post
    Hi Jamie, group them together means.

    CMD (MAC) or CTRL (WIN) and click the two sharpened layers, that both are active.
    CMD (MAC) or CTRL (WIN) and G on the keyboard (shortcut for make a group from layer/s.)
    Then you have a group (name it sharpen)
    You can individually set the opacity to taste (Layers and /or Group, so a lot of choices or options)

    Hope this helps

    Cheers Andreas
    Cheers Andreas, I'll have a play around with this. Thanks for the tip, it's a little like Scott Kelby's Luminosity Sharpening technique.

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