He posed for me at Ding Darling last month. Used my Sony A100 and Sigma 50-500 lens. f/9, 1/640, 0 ev, 420mm, ISO 100. C&C's appreciated.
Thanks,
John
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He posed for me at Ding Darling last month. Used my Sony A100 and Sigma 50-500 lens. f/9, 1/640, 0 ev, 420mm, ISO 100. C&C's appreciated.
Thanks,
John
Great open-bill pose! The whites look a little grey; I might have added a little + EC here. Should be easy to fix in PS. I'd also sharpen the eye a bit. Also might add a little room on the right. Here's a repost:
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Nice pose and COMP and relatively sharp, but this image looks way-way funky and not sure why: the whites are gray and the BKGR is lumpy... Also good job with the head angle and with capturing the open bill perfectly...
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Hi John, nice portrait, although I agree with Arthur about this one.
Is this a big crop?
Still, exposure looks good and the open bill is a plus, congratulations!
I 'hope you don't mind I worked a bit on your image to see what could be improved, all I did was some levels adjustments, some Noise Reduction and some unsharp mask as I resized the file. let me know your thoughts.
Besides everything said, removing the noise will help the image as well.
The repost is better--thanks Ramon--but the whites and the image quality are still funky...
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John I love the pose but as already mentioned the whites seem off on my monitor.
This one looks like the clarity slider was pushed too far or perhaps a select highlights overlay in mulitply mode was used. The funkiness seems to be too much contrast in the white feathers. I'm curious how you PP this image John. I tried to make an edit posted here but I'm not sure it's an improvement. I was trying to reduce the contrast on the bird feathers and blur the background some. I like the open beak pose and the composition is fine.
Thanks everyone for your comments. Here is the original from the camera except resized for posting. I cropped pretty heavily to get the portrait effect. I guess I went too far in the post processing. I use apperture and I am just learning this. I am a novice also with photoshop. So I appreciate all the help I get from everyone. Thanks, John
Indeed a preety big crop, my advice if you want a nice portrait with good image quality, get closer ;)
Now the full body comp is great as I see it, I noticed you didn't clipped the Egret's shadow, this full frame looks great and it has way more IQ, a bit more room at the bottom and you would've gotten a great image. Here's my PP respost on this full frame version.
Congratulations, I like the full frame version way more! :)
I too like the full pic. I have also taken the liberty to do some pp on it.
I can't help myself. I feel he needs a pair of pants, he looks cold.
Thank everyone, this is very helpful. Oh! and I goofed, this was not taken at Ding Darling. It was on the beach at Sanibel.
John
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