EOS-1D Mk III, 500mm f/4L + 1.4xII, 1/1250, f/5.6, ISO 400
About 95% of Full Frame
Photographed last week at Little Estero Lagoon.
Looking forward to your comments and critiques !
Piping Plover
EOS-1D Mk III, 500mm f/4L + 1.4xII, 1/1250, f/5.6, ISO 400
About 95% of Full Frame
Photographed last week at Little Estero Lagoon.
Looking forward to your comments and critiques !
Just lovely. A PIPL in heaven... Perfect body and head angle and wonderful soft light.
later and love and keep 'em coming, artie
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Artie said it all Mike. Just love this image.
Beautiful image. Soft light and cute subject made it for me.
Has great potential but on my Mac seems over exposed.
Wonderful soft surroundings, sweet as can be :)
Whites look fine on my calibrated Apple Cinema.
looks very very good to me, beautiful image.
Great soft light, use of DOF, details and BG. Maybe a tiny bit CW rotation.
Nice example of less is more. I agree with the CW rotation just enough to level the sliver of sand that anchors the subject.
Steve
There is only a single over-exposed pixel in the image: the specular highlight just below the joint of the near leg. How do I know that? I saved the image, opened it in Photoshop, created a Levels adjustment layer, put the cursor on the Highlight triangle, and held down the Alt. key. The whole image turned black but for the tiny specular highlight. (Complete details in DB and ABP II.)Originally Posted by John Chardine
I will say that though on the bright side, Mike is procesing his images on the light side. This could be a matter of personal taste and a desire to set a certain mood, or it could be because he is not viewing his monitor at the correct angle. If you scroll down to the bottom of each BPN page, there is a monitor calibration strip. Once you are sitting comfotably in front of your computer, you need to set the angle of your monitor so that you can see all of the boxes as distinctly different tones, that is, you can see a difference in the shades of the two darkest boxes on the left and the two lightest boxes on the right.
I created and adjustment layer of the whole image and multiplied that layer. Then I reduced the opacity to 43% and came up with the image below which is more to my taste but which may be too dark for Mike.
I did notice the need for a slight CW rotation when I opened the image (great job by Axel and Steve). I did not fix this as I did not want to have to deal with Mike's CR symbol...
later and love, artie
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Artie, thanks for taking the time to provide the detailed comments/critique!
I'm doing these on my laptop so viewing angle is likely contributing to the lightness issues.
Great tip about the calibration strip. Just tried it and I can see that it is indeed a bit on the light side.
Thanks again!
Nice shot,I Iike Artie repost!!!
Wonderful shot, Mike. I love the negative space, and the background really makes this little guy look great. The Piping Plover is one of my favorite little peeps ;)
This one is special.....extremely clear and precise.....kind of photo I like the best!
Big congrats....pure perfection
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