D700
70-200mm f2.8 VR
200mm
ISO 500
f5.6 at 1/2000s
Manual mode
Matrix Metering
Auto white balance
handheld
Focus Mode: AF-C
Area Mode: Dynamic, 9 points
Unsharpen the camera sharpening, crop, curves to bring out more whites detail and sharpen.
The in camera sharpening seem to have strong halo around the beak so I unsharpen (glad that I shoot RAW) first then do selective sharpening later. I think the halo you see on the beak came after resizing. Another picture of terns from past weekend, hopefully I will go back again this weekend. Wish there wasn't a line in background cutting the bird.
All comments and suggestions are welcome.
Last edited by Thanaboon Jearkjirm; 11-18-2009 at 09:49 AM.
Excellent detail, lighting, composition, wing position, and a nice catchlight! I don't understand the in camera sharpening part. With my camera(which may very well be different) I was under the impression that no sharpening, etc, is done to RAW images, and the in camera settings are strictly for jpegs. A halo around a beak in a preprocessed RAW image is something I've yet to see, unless it from strong backlighting or some atmospheric condition like heavy fog. So does your camera have RAW images that have already been processed to some degree. like applying sharpening? regards~Bill
William, you are correct that with RAW there is no sharpening done to the data.
For Nikon the camera put the in camera sharpening value in the EXIF data, the RAW data itself doesn't get sharpen. However when you open the RAW image with Capture NX2 (Nikon software) the software will use the in camera sharpening value when interpolate (hopefully I am using the right word) the data and display it on screen. That also happen when you directly covert RAW image into JPEG or TIFF, the program will apply the in the camera value during the conversion, not the pure RAW data. By default my camera has the in camera sharpen to 3 (from 0 being no sharpening to 9 being lots of sharpening), sometimes I just forget that when I hit covert I didn't get the pure RAW image, but image with in camera value applied. Pretty much like the white balance setting I think. Maybe I should just set the in camera sharpening value to 0.
Last edited by Thanaboon Jearkjirm; 11-18-2009 at 12:23 PM.
Whites look really good - great eye contact and catchlight - nice flight position.
Looks like you are getting the hang of these guys quite well.
Good show :)
Thanaboon: that makes sense. I bet in the conversion software I use I just have it set so it doesn't use those parts of the RAW data. Also, I never set contrast or shapening, in camera so it always shows up as zero. For sure with white balance, which I do set, it does say "as shot by camera" and other settings for it.regards~Bill
Excellent pose and love the feet position, bg is extra sweet !! All I could wish for are wings totally straight !! Fine image !!
Some of the programs Like LR are using capture sharpening which can be done as a pre set during importing, helps a little in evaluating the image. Imagine is something similar (not the same) as NX2 which btw is one fine program.
with legs dangling
