Bald Eagle
I caught several of these images in the late AM. I exposed at -1/3 (or 2/3) stop to keep the detail in the whites, consequently I lost the detail in the blacks. How can one avoid this?
Shadow/highlight seems to bring out a lot of noise.
I keep seeing instructions to use noise reduction. Is this in CS or in the Mark III?
In CS3 there is Filter > Noise > Reduce Noise. There are also several plug-ins for CS3 that target noise specifically
There looks to be a bit of coloring outside the lines going on just in front of the foot where a whitish smear appears.
It is really tough to keep the light and dark areas well exposed when they are so vastly different. This is especially so in cases where the light angle keeps parts of the bird in shadow.
An alternative to Shadow Highlight is Curves targeted to certain areas of the image.
Was the original RAW? If so, you might be able to get some details back, but the areas that are totally blacked out in this JPG version are pretty much just gone. I tried to play with it briefly, but didn't like the results I was getting.
Last edited by Jim Poor; 02-21-2008 at 09:46 AM.
Thank you, Jim. The original is RAW. I'll go back and start over.Originally Posted by Jim Poor
Susan, you might take a look at the Noiseware plugin
Super easy to use and very effective. I run it twice on every blue sky shot.
You could try curves in your RAW converter, which should result in much less noise than using S/H in Photoshop.
The best time to capture images of birds with two stark contrasts (like a Coot, Osprey, Hooded Merganser, BE, etc...) is either at the crack of dawn when the light isn't harsh or on an overcast day. I always run NR on the BG of all my images, no exceptions.
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