Semipalmated Plover feeding on beach in Ft.Desoto State Park.Fl. Probing sand came up with this reluctant worm.
Chas.
Scanned Slide
Stretchy Worm
Semipalmated Plover feeding on beach in Ft.Desoto State Park.Fl. Probing sand came up with this reluctant worm.
Chas.
Scanned Slide
Great pose and great worm. Loverly COMP. Even my mother said, "That picture's too dark." I agree.
More important, it looks as if it is a big crop as the bird is quite lacking in fine detail and also looks as if it was originally under-exposed (and lightened).
Can you post the un-cropped original please.
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My mom likes this better. Me too. :)
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The scan picked up a lot of noise from grain in the slide and I did two runs of noise reduction which I think accounts for some of the smoothing. Also the head was soft but since I loved the pose and action almost overdid the sharpening around the head-slight double contour of the bill.
Will try to post original from a TIFF.
Ah, it is a scanned slide; that explains a lot. No need to show the ORIG.
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Original TIF converted to JPG with no crop or adjustment.
Thanks Chas. It looks as if sharpest focus was just in front of the bird.
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The scanned full-frame slide shows me how beautifully composed this was in the camera, and the action and light are great. I've had mixed success in scanning slides, and more often than not have had trouble holding noise-free detail from them - especially the older ones. I scan at 3200 dpi and find that Topaz DeJPEG on the scanned file helps some. This is an issue of interest to me, and if anyone has thoughts on how to get better results I would love to hear them.
I have been thinking about this subject also and posting the question on General Photography or Digital work-flow, but have not.
Bill,perhaps you can start the discussion.
Good idea, Charles. I have posted a new thread on the General Photography forum. We'll see what comes out of it. (I did a search for 'slide scanning' and found that the subject has come up relative to many posts over the past year, but there is no comprehensive discussion on the subject.)Originally Posted by charles mcrae
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