Spectacular action and framing; rare to get a clean action image there with so many birds. Surely sharp enough to sell. Only wish that the rear bird had its wings up.
For the repost: Linear Burn, added BLACks to the WHITEs in Selective Color, plus some Selective Sharpening via a contrast mask applied by painting away a hide all mask. All as detailed in the latest update of Digital Basics.
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IMHO: folks capable of making such good images should work towards learning how to maximize the appearance of their optimized images :).
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Mike, excellent shooting angle and poses. So little overlap....very well done. I like Artie's repost...the orig seems a tad too bright. If you have, some room at top will help IMO.
Thanks for the comments and I appreciate the detailed critique of post processing with repost.
There was a lot of interaction among the juveniles (and even better between a nearby reddish egret and the spoonbills) but I either clipped part of the image or the background was cluttered with other birds. It was a good morning!
My workflow: import into Lightroom, apply global adjustments, send over to CS5, apply a NIK tonal contrast filter to bring out the feather detail (painting it onto the birds only), a small amount of NIK brilliance/warmth, select the birds with a rough lasso, invert the selection and apply a levels adjustment to slightly darken the background.
Theoretically, I should end up in a similar place to Artie, but based on the repost, I didn't execute as well. Still working on getting better at post....
Artie, the technicals are below the image: 1d4 with the 800. 1/1000 @ f/6.3, iso 400
Thanks Mike. I should have mentioned, make sure that you laptop is calibrated and that you have adjusted the screen angle with the Calibration Strip.
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