Peter Delaney kindly reviewed the Polar Bears on my website and made a few suggestions for posts.
So here is the first
Taken in Northern Svalbard 12th September 2009, from Zodiac
EOS 1D MkIII
300mm F4
F6.3, ISO 1600, 1/500
Peter Delaney kindly reviewed the Polar Bears on my website and made a few suggestions for posts.
So here is the first
Taken in Northern Svalbard 12th September 2009, from Zodiac
EOS 1D MkIII
300mm F4
F6.3, ISO 1600, 1/500
Hi Ken,
I love the water droplets on this one.
Maybe a slight CCW rotation to level up the water line and I might lose some from the RHS if it were mine.
You got some great images from this trip.
tfs
Austin
The dripping coat and the water drops really enhance this fine image Ken, did you capture the shake by any chance?
TFS
Ken,
Why were you hiding this from us? I like this image. The water streams add a lot to this image. I love the one streaming down the tail. :D Composition is nice. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers,
Sabyasachi
shiish.... he is hiding a lot more!!!
Well not much of a secret about me liking this ... love the almost monochromatic feel to it...
I wonder how this would look in B&W?? when i get home will have a look if thats ok ..
Hi Ken
- Firstly I agree that the image needs to be rotated so the water line is horizontal.
- At ISO 1600 the sharpness sadly isn't going to be there, so making a B/W which is contrasty with some 'added' grain (noise) might work???
- Clone the small black dot out, just above the tail on the pack ice
- Curves use medium contrast helps it 'pop', but be selective in the areas
Great memories :)
Steve
Post Production: It’s ALL about what you do with the tools and not, which brand of tool you use.
Peter and Steve,
Thanks for the B& W idea, unfortunately I am a virtual virgin at B & W. Nevertheless I have tried using my old Nik plugin.
Ken, with PS3 it's quite easy now.
Youy can either convert to Grey scale and work on it, or in Adjustments there is B/W. Then using the sliders you can tweak it then work within other areas such as levels, contrast, curves etc to get the desired effect. What you have created isn't bad but I guess it was an RGB file which can give a slight cast. I find it better to go to GS, but we all have our out ways I guess.:) Certainly a slice off the rhs would hurt. ;)
Steve
Post Production: It’s ALL about what you do with the tools and not, which brand of tool you use.
I like this a lot Ken - and really like the droplets. Agree on the rotation and your B&W ain't half bad.
I hope you don't mind but I took a quick stab to see what I would have done were it my image...I did this very quickly so forgive if there are some artifacts...
-I converted to B&W using PS settings at maximum white.
-then changed over to grayscale
-applied curves medium contrast but tweaked it a bit more towards an s-curve
-reset black and white points while in curves with whites @ 190 RGB
-rotated slightly CCW and cropped to pano losing some of the space on RHS
-made selective layer of the polar bear and FG making sure to stay on the edges of subject
-then worked on bottom layer using shadow/highlights to extract detail from the snowy BG and make it a tad darker
-on the FG layer applied 2x USM of 20% 7px as a local contrast enhancement, then applied mask and painted back on the face of the bear to save some detail from the contrast boost
-flattened, then created duplicate layer of entire image, adding noise of 2px, adjusting transparency of the layer to about 75%
like I said, I worked roughly and quickly so I noticed some slight halos evolving, more careful work can avoid that...
would love to know what you (and others) think...
Love the orginal and the B&W pictures a sense of the cold
I like the original and your black and white repost Ken, nice action with the water droplets.
Nice image. I like how the bear is just going about it's buisness and concentrating on getting out of the water.
Hi Ken , played around in B&W , hope yo do not mind... feel the colour version maybe the stronger .. just need to crop a little from RHS..
It seems that there are as many ways in B&W as there are in colour.
What are we to do?
Depends on how far you wish to take things. I would look at some books, there are some really good ones out there that are easily understood and do not bombard you with jargon, which I hate. :)What are we to do?
Steve
Post Production: It’s ALL about what you do with the tools and not, which brand of tool you use.
In the black and white, I am leaning towards Peter's version.
The orginal works fine for me