Tuffed Puffin

[Myer Bornstein]

Yesterday I was reviewing my slides from St. Paul Island in the Pribilofs and I decided to work on this photograph of a tufted puffin. I cropped into the head, selected the background, cloned out black areas that were encroaching the front of the bird, and darken the background utilizing multiply at about 80% opacity. I did selective sharpening on the head of the bird and increase saturation. I utilized Photoshop and Lightroom.

Taken with Nikon D 300 S, 300 mm lens, ISO 400, 1/200, F8

[Geoff Warnock]

An impressive species Myer and the detail has held well in both blacks and whites. I find the saturation a bit too high personally, and depending on taste, I might consider running the equivalent of noise reduction on the background.

[Myer Bornstein]

Thanks Geoff for your comments
I had increased the saturation because lately when I post the images are coming out dull.

[Geoff Warnock]

You're welcome Myer, I also wondered whether the saturation was related to the image being scanned from a slide.

[Doug Brown]

Just love this species Myer! Nice detail, but I agree that the saturation could be pulled back a little. Wish for a slight head turn towards the viewer. I see some graininess in the blacks of the bird.

[Arthur Morris]

Is the D-300 S a Digital camera or a film camera ? :confused:

Myer, is this indeed from a scanned slide?

[Randy Stout]

Artie:

The D300S is digital, the update of the D300.

Randy

[Arthur Morris]

Thus the "slide" confusion above :)

[Geoff Warnock]

indeed, I read 'slide' but never thought twice about the camera in the specs...

[Myer Bornstein]

Artie
This is the camera I was using at Nickerson. Although you a a canon man you have to at least know what the nikon bodies are :D

[Arthur Morris]

I was pretty sure that it was a digital camera. You though everyone off by talking about reviewing your "slides." See Geoff's comment in Pane #4.