I captured this image of a Royal Tern at Ft. Desoto County Park in Pinellas County, Florida. The terns have interesting behaviors. If they catch a fish when they dive after regaining flight again they will toss the fish into the air catching it hopefully in a position to swallow it. If the miss catching a fish upon regaining flight they will shimmy and shake to expel water from their feathers. This one is doing the shake. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.
Nikon D500
Nikon 80-400 F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED, handheld
1/3200 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV 0 ISO 640 Auto WB, image captured at 400mm (600mm 35mm Equivalent)
Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2022 and Topaz
Cropped for composition and presentation
Joe Przybyla
"Sometimes I do get to places just as God is ready to have somebody click the shutter"... Ansel Adams
Hi Joe ... I like the action and overall color and tones are looking quite nice .
For whatever reason , I think the IQ has suffered a lot here .... details are not showing up fine , but very coarse and there are a lot of artifacts in the subject , at least here on my screen .
Where did the previous posting go ?? The tossed fish ....
Hi Joe ... I like the action and overall color and tones are looking quite nice .
For whatever reason , I think the IQ has suffered a lot here .... details are not showing up fine , but very coarse and there are a lot of artifacts in the subject , at least here on my screen .
Where did the previous posting go ?? The tossed fish ....
TFS Andreas
Hi Andreas, thank you for viewing and commenting. I wonder what you are seeing as artifacts, could you point me in the right direction. I have a idea where they might have come from... Topaz. Sometimes it helps sometimes not. Will rework the image and repost. The tossed fish hasn't gone away I just wanted to work on it more differently from what was posted. Thanks again, my friend.
Here is a edit and repost, no Topaz, just Lightroom and Neat Image. I still would like to know what artifact you saw for learning. WDYT?
Last edited by Joseph Przybyla; 02-07-2022 at 05:46 PM.
Joe Przybyla
"Sometimes I do get to places just as God is ready to have somebody click the shutter"... Ansel Adams
Hi Joe, would agree with Andreas, it's not up to your usual standard which is a shame as it's quite an interesting behaviour aspect you captured. It's all in the subject, like coarse dots and lines.
No idea what Topaz you are using here Joe, but you might find applying the step at the raw stage will improve rather than on a baked tiff where you are applying it to a pixel based file????
TFS
Steve
Post Production: It’s ALL about what you do with the tools and not, which brand of tool you use.
Love the behavior you captured JoE! I agree with he comments about the IQ though. BTW, I was also wondering where the flipped fish went. I was about ready to comment on it and it disappeared. Looked like a cool image. Hope you repost it.
Hi guys, thank you for viewing and commenting. Fell in love with a image that should have been trashed. Trying to put lipstick on a pig and have it look good. I went back this morning to the original out of the camera, unfortunately the image was soft and combined with a larger than desirable crop just doesn't work out. Thanks for taking the time to comment, much appreciated. The Fish Toss image is coming, I will repost.
Joe Przybyla
"Sometimes I do get to places just as God is ready to have somebody click the shutter"... Ansel Adams