Asian Short-clawed Otter @ local wildlife reserve.
It took me several applications of variations in Photoshop Elements to get what I consider close to original colours of this little otter.
Would be interested to read how others get most natural fur colours.
Details: Heavy overcast early afternoon.
Pentax K10D with Tamron 70-300.
1600 ISO 1/750 @ F5.6.
About 30% crop.
Comments & Reposts welcome.
Cheers: Ian Mc
Nice pose and placement in frame. Debating on closeness to left edge but will be interested in how others feel. I am working on a non-color managed laptop right now but colors look OK. I would have preferred not to have the OOF rock? in the LR.
Thanks Peter
By moving Histogram to right this would effectively be an increase in EV.
For birds I usually have camera set at Minus 0.5 EV and when I took this picture last Thursday I started with Siamangs @ Plus 0.5 EV but not happy with results so left camera with no EV adjustment.
However have noted " Furry animals ,heavy overcast, try EV increase"
Cheers: Ian Mc
Ian, colors look much better in the second image, original crop. Not usre on how to crop this and I trid a few but was not happy with any, because we have distractions on both sides.
Not sure why you'd always uses minus whatever for birds. Sometimes, especially for flight, we need to go plus.
Thanks Fabs
Really appreciate reality check.
I have to watch for overcooked edits.
If my main target is overhead birds I know that plus EV is the way to go.
Meantime here is another otter crop with 1.Crop. 2.Noiseware and USM only.
Cheers: Ian Mc
Otter with variations.
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