Don't forget to vote!

[Rob Miner]

Road traveling in Texas. Handheld and cropped for presentation.

Camera: D70s
70-200mm @ 340mm
510mm (in 35mm film)
1/800 sec, f/4.8
Mode: Av
Metering: Center-weighted average
ISO: 400
AF mode: AF-S
White balance: AUTO
Flash: Off
File size: 5,370KB
Image size: 2014 x 3040
Color mode: MODE1a
Saturation: Normal
Sharpness: AUTO
Contrast: Normal

All comments appreciated.

Rob.................

[wendell westfall]

Rob, I promise to vote! Nice image that (I think) would profit with a bit more head turn, and some more NR overall.

[Ben_Sadd]

Hi Rob,

I am in Europe, so I think I may have missed something concerning the voting comment. I agree with Wendell about the head turn. How much of a crop (for presentation) was this? The detail seems very coarse, so I wonder if it was large. For me the pinks/reds are a little saturated.

Was this bird after roadkill by the side of the road?

[Arthur Morris]

Hey Rob, There is something very funky about this image... It looks a bit like a grunge-style HDR with yes, very coarse details. Assuming that that is not the look you were going for I think that you made some wrong turns in the processing. Can you please convert the image adjusting only the exposure and post a JPEG of it so that we can try to help.

[Rob Miner]

Hi Folks, Must have let this one get away from me. Thanks for the help in advance. This one submitted straight from NEF to JPEG, nothing else done.




P.S. My pun may have been a stretch for anyone out of the U.S.A., my apologies. Vultures are known to eat "road kill" and carrion. My pun was, "vote so that your ideas will not be road kill after your election."

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[Arthur Morris]

Hey Rob, Thanks for posting the original capture. There are some serious image quality issues even in the original; it is simply not sharp and there are few pixels to work with. Try posting images that are at least 800 wide or tall and about 195 kbs. And a huge crop of an image that seemed not at all sharp to start with is a recipe to disaster. Best to examine your capture and sharpness techniques as well as your post processing workflow.

For the repost I went with a much wider crop. I wanted to do some Eye Doctor work but there simply were not enough pixels to work with. I ran a contrast mask on the bird and reduced the red SAT.

[Rob Miner]

Thanks Arthur - Appreciate your time and consideration. I guess that I should be glad that my PSing wasn't the culprit, just bad shooting techniques.

Rob.....................

[Rob Miner]

RE-TRY,


Rob............

[wendell westfall]

Rob, very much improved . . . more than I would have anticipated. I like it.

[Arthur Morris]

Improved but mega-underexposed. Do you know how to check the calibration strip at the bottom of each BPN page?

[Rob Miner]

Hi Artie, I thought I knew how to use it, but not sure now? Please instruct.

Rob...........

[Arthur Morris]

You tilt your screen forward or back so that you can see differences in the light and dark boxes on each end. That after you have calibrated your monitor.

[Rob Miner]

Thank You Art. Appreciate your time and consideration.

Rob..............

[Arthur Morris]

YAW. No sweat; that's what we are here for :)