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Hi Vikram, Interesting two tone colour to the bill, and posed against a lovely smooth BG. The plumage looks a touch underexposed, and wonder if you could tease some more detail out of it. There also seems to be a greenish cast on it too.
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Lovely bird but I agree with Stuart on the green cast.
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Nice pose captured, Vikram.
It could be me but it seems to me that the bird is not sharp enough especially on the head area.
I also would tone down the greens and as Stuart suggested, try to get some more details out of the dark area of the bird.
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Thanks Stuart, Stan & Karl. I agree on your observations.
Dear Arthur, thanks for the magic touch to the image.
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Originally Posted by
vikram potdar
Dear Arthur, thanks for the magic touch to the image.
You are welcome Vikram. I was thinking "magic" myself. But all of it is easy to learn. That's why I created "Digital Basics."
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PS: EV-.3 does not make much sense in soft light. Were you getting any blinkies at zero or +1/3?
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Awesome image and a lovely bird you got here , Vikram . Arthur has made it look over the top with his great PP skills . I am sure you can eke out more details with the RAW image !!
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Thanks Rakesh
Roger thanks for the PP.
The colors have come out nicely but the shine on the the bird looks bit unnatural.
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Well, not having every seen one of these birds, I have no idea. What is unnatural about it? That is what is in the data, or are you saying the color balance is off?
Roger
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Hi Roger, Thanks for your efforts on PP on my Toucan image.
I mean to say that the bird diid not have the shine/glow on its black color back. The color balance is just slightly off.
Thanks.
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Roger, please do not take this personally but the back of the bird in your repost looks plain horrible from here: pixilated and over-sharpened at best. Respectfully.
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Arthur Morris
Roger, please do not take this personally but the back of the bird in your repost looks plain horrible from here: pixilated and over-sharpened at best. Respectfully.
Hi Artie,
No, I do not take it personally. I think what you mean is posterized. In raising the level on the dark bird using the compressed jpeg, I noticed the image became quite posterized. It would be much better to work with the 16-bit image. A recent example of Richardson-Lucy deconvolution is here (see pane 15}:
http://www.birdphotographers.net/for...rs-of-Arctic-8
Virkam, if you would like, I'll process your raw image, of a 16-bit tiff. Just email it to me.
Roger
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Thanks for the info Roger. Image optimization will always go better when you are starting with a RAW file or a TIFF rather than a 150kb jpeg.
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Thanks Roger and Arthur Will mail RAW file.
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Hey Vikram, Thanks again for letting me use your image in today's blog post. You can check it out here as I added a bit of new info.
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