After my inaugural post and the awesome advice here is no.2 - I think I still had a problem with the whites being white. If I bring them out anymore in Lightroom they loose detail. Is this something that needs to be right in camera?
Nikon D300 - 70-300mm
1/1250 at f 5.6
ISO 500
0ev
Hi Rob,
I like the base composition, the head angle and eye contact on your bird is off. He needs to be looking a tad down and with a little bit of CW rotation. The whites on the upper breast is a tad hot, I toned them down for you, also cropped 1/4 of the tree from the right, increased saturation and contrast, in addition I lightened the area around the eye and selective sharpened it...see if this presents better to you...:cool:
Hi Gus
How did you get so much more detail out of the bird and its eye, did you go out and take another shot?!!! What sharpening are you using? is this in PhotoShop? Also...after seeing the white a little colder I see exactly what you mean by being a little too hot (I would have never seen this). Thank you so much. Any tips on sharpening would be awesome. I seem to find it so hard to decide where and when in the process to sharpen and then how to sharpen (lightroom, photoshop etc...).
Rob
Not bad Rob Just needs a little mid tone contrast boost. Go to the curves, click the little hand in the UR corner then place cursor on the light grey part of the bird and drag down.
Should give you the boost. Very easy in LR !! ... you are running 2.0?
btw I like the little crop on the right Gus did Just cleans up the image Nicely done !!!
Hi Rob, Great shot!!! Chickadees never do stay still. Think your exposure looks very good ( think the whites on the original are probably OK, compressing to jpeg makes them more contrasty I think). Just the crop with the OOF bit. Good suggestion by Alfred for the mid-tones.
Black-capped Chickadee
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