Ground Squirel 2
Camera Model : NIKON D300
Exposure Time : 1/1250 sec
F Number : 10.0
Exposure Program : Aperature Priority
ISO Speed : 400
Exposure Bias Value : 0.0
Max Aperture Value : 5.3
Metering Mode : Spot
Light Source : Auto
Flash : Flash was not fired
Focal Length : 500.0 mm
ColorSpace : -1
Sensing Method : One-chip color area sensor
Lens : Sigma 150-500 OS
Mighty fine looking ground squirrel Love the pose and look Precious !!!
Precise point of focus, shallow dof and sharpness do it for me Big Congrats !!!
Sharp with an interesting pose and a good low shooting angle, Adrian. You might select the eye and lighten it somewhat. It looks very black as presented.
I like the way this fella looking at you
Nice shot , Thanks for sharing
Harshad
Nice pose, BG, and low angle. Good sharpness, one of the best I've seen from this lens.
Lovely low angle, and love the pose. I like the DOF, sharp, with good detail, and agree with Steve M to lighten the eye.
Thank you all, very much!
The eyes of the ground squirel, are really black, so lighten them, won't do any good...
Adrian,
I like the pose, the low angle and the looks. The image is sharp. I have no knowledge of this species. However, I agree with Steve's comment about the eyes. The blacks in the eyes have lost details. At the moment it is textureless black. By reprocessing it you can maintain it deep black but with details. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers,
Sabyasachi
At the moment, I can't imagine how to do that...I really have no idea how to get details from that black eye! If you can show me how to do that, it would be wonderful!Originally Posted by Sabyasachi Patra
Thank you very much!
Adrian.
Adrian,
Which software do you use for post processing? Will try to answer accordingly.
Cheers,
Sabyasachi
Thank you very much, Sabyasachi !
I'm using Photoshop CS4.
Adrian.
Adrian, although you are right...this eye is REALLY black...I opened it up in Photoshop and gave it a go. Here's what I did.
First, I opened it in Adobe Camera Raw and checked the black tones...they were within the limits (the triangle on the left side of the exposure slider was black meaning nothing was off on the darkest tones.) Because it was in check I moved it into Photoshop CS4 and used the quick selection tool (looks like a magic wand) to select the entire eye area. I then opened a levels adjustment layer. Because the eye was so dark, I moved both the highlight slider and the midtone slider to the left to open up a little bit more of the eye up. (The highlight slider was moved to '210' and the midtone slider was moved to '1.35'.)
After that I opened another levels adjustment layer, this time for the entire image as it was just a tiny bit underexposed (which wasn't helping the eye any!) I moved the highlight and midtone sliders a bit to the left again, this time lightening up the entire image a small amount.
This was the difference that I got...it's slight but there is some more detail in the eye now.
All,
In general, when I convert the raw file (e.g. in ACR) I set the black slider to zero (I think it defaults to 5), convert to 16-bit tif in Adobe RGB. The first thing I do is use levels to maximize the signal without any clipping (use a color histogram for this--all 3 colors each with their own histogram). Then I work on the eyes. I use refine edge on the selection and then the curves tool to adjust the brightness.
Before I save for web, which includes a conversion to sRGB, I boost the low end a little. I have found that a good Adobe RGB image will have the low end truncated on conversion to sRGB. I've only realized this in the last couple of years so some of the older images on my web site have truncated blacks. I have to go back
and fix them.
Thank you very much, Julie and Roger, for helping me!
Adrian.
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