Is this image savable?
Canon 40D
1/60" handheld
F4
ISO 800
EC -.33
130mm
7:30 a.m.
heavy fog
I love the image, but I think remembering the moment is part of why. When I go back and look at the photo, it is not as striking as I first thought it was. lol.
oops, forgot the rest of the info.... I saturated and sharpened the two deer and one tree to the left. I removed twigs and replaced ears. (ears from same buck but different frame.) But there just isn't going to be a lot of details due to the low light and fog. the strange color of the rump of the foreground buck bothers me too. prob from oof undergrowth??
so what say you all?? Really doubt if I will able to get these two dudes to pose again, in order to re-take. Rut season is nearly over, so chances of seeing bucks at all will be soon over.
I love the fog and the subjects, but with the near one looking away, I don't see what you can do to add impact. The rear one has a great pose, but he's mostly blocked by the front one. The front one has a terrible pose and would easily fill the frame with a minor crop. I think this is one that you'll need to tell the story when you show it. ;) Nothing wrong with that, of course. I'm told that people love the stories almost as much as the pictures. At least you've got something more tangible than a "fish story."
This makes me think of my images that weren't all that I'd hoped for. If I look back at my efforts with an open mind, every lost cause seems to be offset by a pleasant surprise, where the camera caught something that I didn't see in heat of battle or something good happened in the frame.
Thanks goodness for digital. Now that we have our equipment, we can go back over and over and take hundreds of pictures per hour and not have to lug heavy film, reload constantly and wait on processing.
I'll bet if you go back to this same place throughout the year(s) that you'll get that image that you hoped for when you saw this.
I love it! Yeah, technically it could be better, but I've never seen a composition like that. Looks like the deer is looking in a mirror. A unique capture.
Last edited by Buddy scherr; 11-13-2009 at 08:23 PM.
Hi Cheryl - this is interesting - once you really look at it - you could nearly imagine that the first dear in looking in a MIRROR and seeing his own reflection the the dear behind.
Do you have Arties Digital Basics??? - Sure you would get some idea's from in there or even from some of his bulletins - think you can get something out of it - whether its going to be exactly what you had envisaged i dont know.
TFS
Ohhh, I love the story this image tells me. The story overwhelms the lack of technical perfection. I'd be happy to have a photo like this in my coffetable album.
Love the image !!! For fog you can add black and the image will improve, sometimes is good to go with the fog effect other times correcting. For this one I went to Image adjustments>selective color then chose neutral and added black, then chose black and added black !! ... over did the effect for illustration, best changing to taste .. all subjective !!! Big Congrats !!!
... btw you can apply the changes on a layer then brush away the effect you don't want .... would be the way I would go about it !!!
Hi Lady Cheryl,
I like this image and capture...very nice...the fog does give it a distinct feel, Mr. Forns' enhancement gives the image a tad more pop...congrats...looking forward to your next one...:cool:
I like the image alot, but the biggest problem IMO is the severe noise. Noise reduction software hardly ever is satifactory for me, smooths out the details too much. I try to nip it in the bud when shooting, if possible. Also, I suspect the images was somewhat underexposed originally, but I could be wrong. Increasing contrast PP, which is the almost always needed in these ultralow contrast situations, increases the visibility of noise. The big advantage in low contrast is that it is difficult to blow the whites, and what appears to be a totally washed out image recovers quite nicely using, well, it so happens to be called "recovery" in ACR. You can also play with the white and highlight sliders in "curves". So, this may sound odd, but next time crank up the ISO, not much past 1250-1600 (detail suffers after that point), and overexpose the heck out of the image. I'm talking about far right in your histogram, don't be real concerned with the blinkies. Sure, try a few different shutter speeds, get a bracket going, but overexpose.
You will be shocked at how little noise and how much detail is in the image when you drop the exposure down in post-processing. Then increase contrast. regards~Bill
Last edited by WIlliam Maroldo; 11-14-2009 at 06:56 PM.
two bucks in the woods
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