Another BIF from my recent trip, I like the fish in his talons in this one, but i think the shutterspeed was too slow for optimum sharpness.
1/800 s at f/5.6 ISO320 D5000 70-300 VR @ 300 mm
All comments and critiques eagerly sought and appreciated!
Black kite with lunch
Another BIF from my recent trip, I like the fish in his talons in this one, but i think the shutterspeed was too slow for optimum sharpness.
1/800 s at f/5.6 ISO320 D5000 70-300 VR @ 300 mm
All comments and critiques eagerly sought and appreciated!
It appears sharp on my monitor. I like the feather detail & the rim lighting on the tail & wings. The exposure looks right on to me also. The fish is an added bonus. Nice work.
Andrew
Nice to see this species! The fish food item adds interest. I like the layout and composition- you have room where you need it. The main issue with the image is a very noticeable sharpening halo around the entire bird. If you really needed to be that aggressive with sharpening it probably means the original image was too soft to do much with. Maybe not though- why not try Unsharp mask at 100%, 0.3 and 1 on the downsampled image and see how it looks. There are ways of toning down the halo in Photoshop Smart Sharpen or you could take the Blur tool and gently go around the edge just touching the halo. This will reduce the halo's brightness.
Thanks a lot Andrew and John!
The black kite is the commonnest raptor here, often acting as an urban scavenger. However, common as it is, I had never came as close as this to it!
I will try reworking this from the original, i don't have it on this machine. The halo I thinks came from the second round of USM I applied for reupload as the original upload looked too soft on flickr. I will also try the blur tool trick, it's new to me!
Hi - another approach is to duplicate the layer - set the overlay mode to darken and use the clone stamp to paint away the HALO - of course preferable not to have the halo there in the first place.
Might be worth posting the original so we can help.
Like the pose and the included prey.
Keep em coming :)
Thanks for the trick Lance !
I went over the photo again, and while it wasn't much sharp, the halo was coming mostly from S/H highlight adjustment. Here is a rework from the LR adjusted/cropped jpeg, giving less halo, I think.
And the LR adjusted/cropped jpeg.
Nice to see the downsized original. I think the issue here all along was a heavy hand when sharpening. I took your original and sharpened with Photoshop Smart sharpen, 100%, 0.5. This is the result, which I think looks pretty sharp but not too sharp. There's some nice detail in the breast feathers and underwing. I also lightened the eye a little to bring out more detail and selective sharpened the eye with the sharpening tool- one click at 100% strength.
Nice in flight image here! I like the position within the frame and the angle that you photographed him at - we can clearly see almost every part of the bird.
I do like John's choice of sharpening - it brings the bird nicely into focus without overdoing it.
That's a useful technique Lance! Tried it and it works!Originally Posted by Lance Peters
Thanks John and Julie!
I can see where I went overboard with the sharpening. This seems sharp enough for screen viewing.
I found in my initial use with smart sharpening it was making the noise too prominent, I'll have a look at it again. maybe I was overdoing it then as well!
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