Captured at the Edithvale Wetlands melbourne, on the 15.01/09 using canon EOS-1D MK. III 1/4000sec, 300mm F4 at f 7.1, ISO 640, Pattern metering, 0 step[IMG]file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Chris/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.jpg[/IMG]
Black Shouldered Kite with lunch
Captured at the Edithvale Wetlands melbourne, on the 15.01/09 using canon EOS-1D MK. III 1/4000sec, 300mm F4 at f 7.1, ISO 640, Pattern metering, 0 step[IMG]file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Chris/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.jpg[/IMG]
Well captured image! A 3:2 crop would be better + some NR also. Was this a large crop?
Cheers
Marc
Yes 66% crop and no NR was applied.Well captured image! A 3:2 crop would be better + some NR also. Was this a large crop?
Nice work - good wing position. Only think better is if the wing was further up to eliminate the tip shadow. The position of the mouse is great though.
I did a few corrections for you to consider in the repost.
I sharpened the image once using Unsharp Mask at 175/0.3/0. I selected the eye and socket and did a curves adjustment to lighten it. I then did a shadows/highlights adjustment to lighten up the wing shadow. I also selected the BG using the magic wand and did a Gaussian blur on it around 2 pixels but more would have been OK to get rid of the noise. This was in PSCS3.
Working from the original, you will get better results.
Thanks a million Robert some very useful info there and I shall return to the original RAW and try again, love the result of your work on it.
I have a few shots of it with the wing further up but I find that it unbalances the photo, I actually prefer the shots of it with the wings down with the tips up which I will post later.
Chris
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