Results 1 to 4 of 4

Thread: White-throated Kingfisher

  1. #1
    Forum Participant
    Join Date
    Dec 2011
    Location
    Syracuse, New York
    Posts
    787
    Threads
    161
    Thank You Posts

    Default White-throated Kingfisher

    Attached Images Attached Images
     
    I took this image of a white - throated kingfisher in a park that is known as "The Central Park of Tel Aviv". It has a large river running through it, and I've spotted several species of kingfishers here. For this image, I increased highlights and clarity slightly in LR, then moved it into PS where I cropped it, and, since the background was so busy, desaturated the greens and yellows. Then I painted them back in on the bird. In LR, and in the Tiff image in PS, the bird looked beautiful; but I think the IQ was degraded a bit when I saved it as a jpeg for the web.

    Canon 7D, 300mm f/4 lens with 1.4 extender
    ISO 400, f 5/6, 1/400s

  2. #2
    BPN Member
    Join Date
    Aug 2013
    Location
    Northern New Jersey - USA
    Posts
    267
    Threads
    29
    Thank You Posts

    Default

    Wendy,

    How much of the image did you crop? I also have the 7D and found when I crop a photo where the subject is smaller in the frame the subject does not retain good detail. When the subject is fairly large in the frame and I crop the detail on the subject remains good. I think i read somewhere it has to do with the sensor size and how many pixels are covering the subject. Not sure if you noticed it as well.

    -Dave

  3. #3
    Forum Participant
    Join Date
    Dec 2011
    Location
    Syracuse, New York
    Posts
    787
    Threads
    161
    Thank You Posts

    Default

    I cropped out about 30% of the image (leaving about 60% intact). I haven't noticed that problem before with the 7D. I'm wondering if it has more to do with moving it from Lightroom to Photoshop, which I've just started doing. Although I'm not sure what the exact problem would be.

  4. #4
    Forum Participant
    Join Date
    Oct 2013
    Location
    Lincolnshire UK.
    Posts
    4,951
    Threads
    187
    Thank You Posts

    Default

    Hi Wendy I agree that you have lost some IQ somewhere, where you some distance from the bird when you took the shot, think you have made a good job of the BG.

    Keith.

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •  
Web Analytics