Taken from my garden hide (baited)
Canon 5D IV Canon 500mm f4L IS II
Auto ISO 6400, 1/2000 sec f8
I would like your opinion first, then I will spill the beans!
Taken from my garden hide (baited)
Canon 5D IV Canon 500mm f4L IS II
Auto ISO 6400, 1/2000 sec f8
I would like your opinion first, then I will spill the beans!
Well captured Jon...Not very common up here. lovely pose, and detail on the bird...a slightly better HA would work better I reckon. I reduced the greens a little WDYT. did you join up the perch under the left foot of the bird....
Will
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Intriguing... Sharp where it needs to be and a lovely visitor you have there. Like the composition and the perch. Wish for better HA and more DOF (I like the perch lichens?). TFS
Kinda looks like the goldfinch over here. The perch is neat. Wish the bird had less of a head turn. Great background.
The bird looks fine to me, nice BG, nice perch but maybe too much foliage for me...
The bird is the last thing I look at..
Dan Kearl
Hi Jon, I prefer the OP but perhaps a slight boost in the Tonal Curve in the HL's. Not a lover of the flower and leaves creeping in top LHC.
TFS
Steve
Thanks for the comments everyone. Will yes I prefer the paler greens, I did toy with the idea, wish I had done it. Not sure what I could have done to make a visible difference to the highlights Steve?
I have attached the full frame, I removed a leaf and I reduced (free transform) the size of the flower and twig on the LHS, also blurred a little to make it less of a feature.
The perch is a snip off an apple tree growing wild near the beach where I live.
Last edited by Jonathan Ashton; 04-17-2019 at 03:36 AM.
You could use your TK, but why I like LR is that having saved back from PS I can still make some refinements within LR prior to export, Save for Web and I do like the Tonal Curve at times.Not sure what I could have done to make a visible difference to the highlights Steve?However, when processing the file I may found that all the required work was done with Curves, Blends and some simple Colour management?
Very nice image, I agree with the above comments tho, not a fan of the top corner flowers and do wish for a slightly better HA.