Eager to Learn Spotlight Image for 8/13/2010 Pat Lillich

[Roman Kurywczak]

Eager to Learn Spotlight Image for 8/13/2010 Pat Lillich

Congratulations Pat Lillich!

"Dinner" - Tern from July Flight Workshop

1. Trying all the tools everyone has shown me over the last couple of weeks. I suspect these images will improve once the novelty has worn off and I don't play with the images as much.

anyway - I set black and white points (I think the blue is now too intense, though looking at the original, there isn't much difference) and used highlights/shadows to bring out detail in the underwing and body. NIK filters NR and sharpening - and a little extra unsharp mask on the fish and the birds eye. Cropped a little in LR.

I kept moving the bird around a little in the crop and never could decide on where he looked best - this one seemed best when I did it - but now I'm not liking it much....

Nikon d300, 300 f/28, 1/2000 sec f/8 at 420 mm handheld iso 400

welcome any suggestions for improving!
thanks for looking.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Congrats Pat on the ETL spotlight image!!! Looks like you were paying attention during the flight workshop! Way to go!!!

[Steve Maxson]

Well done Pat! Congratulations!

[Indranil Sircar]

Congratulations Pat. Well deserved spotlight image.

[Hilary Hann]

What's not to like with this image … it's beautiful. Congratulations.

[denise ippolito]

Pat, Fantastic image!!! Well done.

[Harshad Barve]

Congrats Pat

[pat lillich]

wow - thanks! - this was such a great workshop with Doug and Jim, hope to do another soon -

[Nate Chappell]

Congrats Pat!