Banking Juvenile Bearded Vulture
At long last this one looked into the lens.
Camera Model: Canon EOS 40D
Date/Time: 2009:06:19 08:38:47
Shutter speed: 1/1600 sec
Aperture: 8
Exposure mode: Av
Exposure compensation: +1/3
Metering mode: Evaluative
Drive mode: Continuous
ISO: 640
Lens: EF300mm f/2.8L IS USM +1.4x
Focal length: 420mm
Image size: 3888 x 2592
Image quality: Raw
White balance: Cloudy
Very well done Loukie! Lovely details, angle and enough bg detail retained to add interest. Good head angle too. Looks like a good trip to GC. TFS
Beautiful bird, great detail in the black wings and super clarity and HA. Love the banking pose and super capture. Well done, I love it.
The viewfinder is my guidance.
Great banking angle Loukie, with great eye contact. I like the space he has to fly into, and lovely colours in the BG. I would maybe run another round of USM on him. Well captured.
USM done
Stuart this is with USM does not make much of a difference IMO, any other views
Loukie, I honestly think it does, so well done.
Beautiful pose and background. I also thought that it could use a bit more sharpening and prefer now the repost. Congrats. JR
Prefer the repost for IQ. Like the angle of flight, eye contact, full spread of wings & feather detail. Well done Loukie!
Loukie. Not sure if this is over done, but it it one heck of a shot and did three rounds of 50%, 0.3 & 4 on luminosity, with a polish at 10%, 20 & 4. bird sharpened only. Cheers. (did it earlier, but had a major distraction mid reply, ... family thing, :o, so had to finish off early). Hope don't mind.
Last edited by David Fletcher; 08-14-2009 at 02:31 PM.
Dave's post in pane #9 takes this to new heights. I love the image itself Loukie. Great pose, BG and sharpness.
A wonderful image made even better in the second re-post.
David's repost is indeed amazing. Can you elaborate on the sharpening procedure you used? JR
David it looks, as my wife says "awesome"thanks, I think I must send all the photos to you before posting them , thank you for taking the trouble. I think all on site would like it if you describe your P Shop technique, please, Regards Loukie
Last edited by Loukie Viljoen; 08-15-2009 at 02:36 AM.
Loukie, I read David's method somewhere, probably in the Wildlife forum. Sounds good, maybe they could put it in the Educational Resources forum for all to learn from. :) Aye Dave?
Thank you Akos, and Loukie. Peter Kes has info and intends I think to put it on for useful tips. Basically, although we recognize the three stages of sharpening, (capture through to output), I also feel each subject and the subject matter within, influences the treatment too: (just as you would treat skin tones differently from detail in a landscape).Originally Posted by Ákos Lumnitzer
So... here goes,
1. First thing I did was a selection on the bg using magic wand tool, tolerance set to 30. Ensure all bg covered.
2. > Select & > inverse.
3. > Select> Modify>contract… by 1px.. (No chances of halo’s then).
4. > Layer> New layer via copy. > Set the blending mode from Normal to Luminosity: (found r/h side where layers are displayed. Hit arrows by Normal and Luminosity is at bottom.).
5. >Filter and USM and set it at 50%, 0.3 or 0.2 & 4 or your preferred settings. Do three sweeps.
6. >flatten: (not always nec' to flatten here, just usually do as don't want to over sharpen).
7. >go to Filter >usm and “polish” sharpen: (polish is a phrase used). Set at 10% , 20 & 4. Yep 20. To see effect set the radius at 20 and then grab the % / amount slider and move it up and down. You will see what I am on about). In essence, it also has a subtle effect on contrast and depth of color.
8. Sometimes this isn’t even enough, just as it’s easy to over sharpen. This image took a bit more, so I did the magic wand tool again, made a selection on bg, inversed and contracted by 1px then went to Smart Sharpen with settings at 100% & 1.0, lens blur: (or preferred settings). Took it easy and probably could have been harder.
Important point re last step. NOT all images need it. Usually I do the NEW LAYER via copy so that if it does look too hard a sharpen, I can reduce opacity on this till it looks about right.
Whilst we all recognize sharpening is relative to output destination, the subject also influences what I do, and I need to be flexible. Generally though, for web, the above works most times, but I do play with the amounts quite a bit when needed.
Thank you so much David from myself and any other photographer that may use it, super, I will definitely try it, we are all grateful.
I am very late here , amazing capture , David's repost took it to new heights
Another vote for David's Tech in ER
Harshad
Dave
Thank you so much mate. Appreciate that you took the time to explain. I'll ask one of the moderators if this could be copied to Educational Resources.
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