1.1.2015 Califonia red shouldered hawk

[arash_hazeghi]

I was lucky to see this beautiful red-shouldered hawk on the first day of the new year during a picnic at the beach. Fortunately I had my light lens handy and got a few frames of this handsome bird.




1D-X and 300 f/2.8 II + 2X III. ISO 1600. f/5.6 at 1/2500sec. hand held. processed with DPP 4. I could have cropped this as a vertical portrait but I liked the pine branch. Hope you like it

[Miguel Palaviccini]

Arash, you do know this one is perched and not in flight, right?! ;)

I'm glad you kept the horizontal crop, that pine branch is a good balance for the image. Light is gorgeous as well.

While I like the branch on the top left, I only wish it was in the same focus plane as the bird. Just a nit-pick, though.

For 2015, I'm going to try to use DPP a bit more, although it's going to be tough to get away from all of the great cataloging features in LR (keywording, mapping, etc). I wish there were a way to export the image in CR2 format from LR to DPP4 and then have it reimport the tiff back into LR.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Yes, the horizontal comp is very good as is and I would have left it as such too. Very nice light, awesome details as per usual.

[Diane Miller]

Miguel, after importing and cataloging in LR as usual, just open DPP and navigate to a desired image, develop it and save in the same folder. Then go back to LR and in the Library module go to Library (in the top menu) > Synchronize Folder. Then in the LL right above the filmstrip, click on the little arrow to the right of the file name to go back to the folder. Then just above that and to the right, it will say Custom Order -- click that dropdown and choose Capture Time. The DPP TIFF file will be next to your original raw, which will also give you an excellent comparison of the two processing engines.

[arash_hazeghi]

Hi Miguel,

CR2 is just RAW data, exporting it is the same as opening in LR, i.e. it is before any conversion so it is not possible. As for LR and DPP see my response in the other thread, I would avoid using them both as it increases chances of RAW file corruption, with those large TIFF files you will waste quite a bit of disk space too. It blows up fast...

best

[Diane Miller]

My suggested scenario is doing two completely separate conversions, for the sake of comparison and deciding which will be my main workflow. Going to DPP and opening the raw file, it hasn't been corrupted by being cataloged in LR or developed in LR or ACR. DPP sees the original raw file. Even if any adjustments to it had been made in LR, they won't be seen by DPP. And bringing DPP's rasterized TIFF file back into the same folder to be viewed in LR, as long as you don't go to the Develop module and make adjustments "on top of" it, there can't be any corruption of it, any more than there is in viewing a PS file in LR's Library module. That can't be any different than viewing a folder in Bridge.

And as far as wanting to avoid large files, for ones that don't need further work in PS, you can export a JPEG for posting here, or a TIFF for a high-end printing service or photo contest or stock agency, right from the developed raw file in LR, without going to an intermediate TIFF or PSD. (There aren't many cases where I wouldn't want to go to PS for a few touches, but just pointing out what it is possible for some images that don't need PS.) If you do decide to use DPP along with the LR workflow, you will have a TIFF file, but for most cases you would have a similar-sized PS file if you just used LR.

I'm enjoying being able to make a side by side comparison of a file developed in DPP4 with one developed in LR.

[arash_hazeghi]

Thanks Diane but maybe continue discussion in the related forum and focus on critique here.

Best

[mohammad reza shahab]

very nice perch and light.excellent details.

[dankearl]

I think the Horizontal crop is very nice.
A lot more character and interest.......
Very nice as usual.

[Satish Ranadive]

Excellent image in beautiful lights. Very nice perch and superb composition.

Regards,
Satish.

[David Salem]

Great look at this beautiful hawk Arash. I really like all the nice contrasting colors in this and the green perch adds allot to the frame. Your usual solid techs. If mine I would clone out the branch on the upper left. Nice as always!