This image was made at the Venice Rookery early today. The image is a little hazy ( not sure why ).
MKIII
F 8.0
1/400
Iso 800
600 x 2 tc
All comments are appreciated
Anhinga Trio
This image was made at the Venice Rookery early today. The image is a little hazy ( not sure why ).
MKIII
F 8.0
1/400
Iso 800
600 x 2 tc
All comments are appreciated
adams, that's pretty cool!! look like larry, mo and curly!! there's seems to be a blue cast to the image? nice job getting three nice head angles!!
Hi Harold,
I am a little puzzled by this image, i can't get it right for some reason.
Hi Adams,
I like your trio composition, the image has a blue cast; and your birds or on the soft side...I boosted contrast and selective sharpened...see if this presents better...:cool:
I love your image Adams! Agree with the blue cast. Really like the sharping that Gus did..Still look a bit blue maybe
Hi Gus,Originally Posted by Gus Cobos
Thank you for taking the time and working on my image. It looks much better than the original post.
Adams
Hi Adams - lovely pose well spotted - somewhere between yoour original and gus's repost would be my aim. I dont think your aperture of f8 would have been sufficent to have both the bodies closest to the camera and the head/ neck area's sharp - if that was your intention.
I may be wrong but I have always remebred F8 as a who cares fstop - primarily used when everything is on the same plane.
:)
Hi Adams will see you there on Sunday !!
Was the lens fogging? Love the trio !!!
Hi Alfred,
That was the impression i had looking thru the view finder on my camera, i Also had the 2x on.
there was a lot of photographer there this morning, but the birds were realy quite. Blue Heron and Anhinga chicks were the only game in town after the white Egrets, ibis and Cattle egrets took off just before sunrise.
Very uncommon image of anhinga. Reminds me of 3 women wearing ermine wraps.
Like the re-post
Good capture
Gail
Try adjusting levels in each channel separately, approximately like this:
Result:
David, you got rid of that haze just by adj. individual channels? Are those the actual settings you used? And were any other changes made? That's amazing!
Dave:
The result you produced with these adjustments is remarkable!
adams, sorry i didnt get back sooner. out of town and lack of internet!! i took it into capture nx2 and set the black and white control points. took less than thirty seconds. you should be able to accomplish the same with the neutral. setting the b&w points is how i normally begin my pp with each image. then you can work on all the other stuff.
No, just the adjustments I showed in the screen shots. It often is rather amazing what a simple levels adjustment can do for an image.
Thank you. It really was a simple adjustment. The histogram in the individual color channels is what tells the tale.
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I keep the three-channel histogram on a function key so I can pop it up with one stroke to see what's going on in an image. Here's a rough rule of thumb that usually pans out: When it looks like an image has a color cast (an undesirable color cast as opposed to, say, a golden sunset shot), the three histograms will usually not be aligned on one end or the other, and sometimes both ends.
In this case, it's the low end that shows where the colors are off. When you equalize these (by dragging the left sliders of blue and green in to the bottom of the "mountains," you're pretty likely to eliminate the color cast.
Last edited by David Thomasson; 12-27-2008 at 10:31 PM.
Dave:
Thanks again for your original contribution, and for your further explanation.
I verified your results by trying the adjustments myself. I also demonstrated to myself that a simple overall levels adjustment will not work; contrast improves but the color cast remains. The three-channels adjustment is the key. Knowing that is extremely helpful!
Last edited by Norm Dulak; 12-28-2008 at 07:40 AM. Reason: typo
Hi David,Try adjusting levels in each channel separately, approximately like this:
Result:
Thank you very much for taking the time reworking my image. It looks a lot better.
I still need to figure out what is going on with my 600mm, i went out today again and had that same haze look to the images.
Hi Harold,
You and David did a great job with the image. I appreciate very much all the help and the feed back I get on this forum.
Adams
You're entirely welcome. I'm puzzled about the haze. Have you definitely narrowed it down to the 600mm? If you shoot the same subject with exactly the same settings in the same lighting but use a different lens, the color comes out normal?
David,
looking through the view finder of the camera you see the haze, this morning i was photographing with a friend, so i took my camera and mounted on his 400mm and the image was nice and clear.
Ah ha, so you've nailed that down. I guess it's time to take that puppy to the shop. I hope it's a relatively easy (and inexpensive) fix.
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