Out to Circle B Bar Reserve early this morning. Not much happening but I did spend some time with this Red-winged Blackbird. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.
Nikon D500
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED image captured at 400mm
1/1600 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV +1 ISO 450 Auto 1 WB, camera supported by a monopod
Post processed in Lightroom Classic CC, Photoshop CC 2019 and Neat Image for noise reduction
Cropped for composition and presentation
Last edited by Joseph Przybyla; 04-11-2019 at 08:48 AM.
Joe Przybyla
"Sometimes I do get to places just as God is ready to have somebody click the shutter"... Ansel Adams
Very popular fellows right now! (RWB). The Hi key look works well here, the feet are great, you can almost see the dinosaur ancestors there. I like the upward gaze, wind ruffled feathers.
Interesting that you ran noise reduction with an ISO of 450 with the D500. Perhaps he was underexposed because of the sky fooling the matrix metering? Can still see a bit of noise on the base of the bill. Not an issue to me.
Very popular fellows right now! (RWB). The Hi key look works well here, the feet are great, you can almost see the dinosaur ancestors there. I like the upward gaze, wind ruffled feathers.
Interesting that you ran noise reduction with an ISO of 450 with the D500. Perhaps he was underexposed because of the sky fooling the matrix metering? Can still see a bit of noise on the base of the bill. Not an issue to me.
Randy
Hi Randy, I had the exposure nailed with EV+1. I run Neat Image at 60% on every image. I do exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, black and white along with vibrance if needed in Lightroom. Then I zero out the sharpening that Lightroom adds. I then take the image in Photoshop, convert to a 16 bit TIFF and run Neat Image with the auto settings at 60% on the whole image. Then I bring the TIFF back into Lightroom and sharpen the image. Works great and gives a cleaner image. Thank you for viewing and commenting.
P.S. If I remember correctly the noise on this image using the Neat Image auto setting was 0.9. Just part of my workflow so I let Neat Image clean that up. I should add this only works with a smooth, pure background where Neat Image can measure the noise correctly so that the feather detail is not mistaken for noise.
Last edited by Joseph Przybyla; 04-10-2019 at 01:05 PM.
Joe Przybyla
"Sometimes I do get to places just as God is ready to have somebody click the shutter"... Ansel Adams
Thanks for the info about your workflow. We all have our own magic formulas that works for us. I rarely noise reduction, just old fashioned I guess.
Nice job on the exposure compensation for this challenging subject/background.
Red-winged Blackbird
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