Marching Godwits

Nice shot Allen. I do like the composition.

Cute shot Allen.
Maybe a couple of adjustments..
A mask to darken the very bright background at the top of the image would help bring out more detail overall, as it stands the top half of the photo kind of glares.
Maybe move your troop of godwits a bit to the right of the frame to move them away from centre frame and create more space for them to march into.

The large version does seem to have a warmer colour balance than the small version, which may help account for the differences, but I would go along with Martin's suggestions as well.

David

Great shot of this running group of birds. Martin's suggestion makes sense to me as well ! Good luck, Cheers, Hans

This shouldn't happen, if you generate both small and large images from the same original, and if you keep the same color profile embedded throughout the process.

Neither small nor large image has an embedded color profile. The large version has a lot of EXIF data; the small version has none.

My workflow:
- raw conversion and post processing in Photoshop to produce a master layered psd file
- flatten the.master file to an 8 bit tif
- crop the tif
- save a 1200 px version from the cropped tif
- save a 720 px version from 1200 px version
- apply selective sharpening to both the 720 and 1200 px versions
- save jpeg versions
- never delete the sRGB color profile

Both posted sizes contain the same EXIF and color profile and look the same as nothing is changed other than size.

What's your workflow?

Hi Allen. I agree with Martin's suggestions as well. If you got different colors, and as Richard noted the EXIF data disappeared from the small version,you probably just accidentally used a different process than normal to save it.

Thanks everyone for the comments.

To clarify, I only uploaded one photo, the 1200px version and NPN did its thing and created the smaller version, so it seems to me they should be the same except for size.

Richard, my workflow is somewhat similar to yours: ACR, PS5; though I usually don't save a layered PSD file; I create a tif file and save it (often with layers) and then create the 1200 px file for NPN and sharpen as needed.

Again, thanks for all the comments and suggestions. I plan to re-work it based on your ideas.

To clarify, I only uploaded one photo, the 1200px version and NPN did its thing and created the smaller version, so it seems to me they should be the same except for size.

Then the change must have happened with the NPN algorithm that resized your 1200px image. At the least it stripped out all EXIF. If there was no color profile in your original then we can only guess at how the process interpreted it.

Pretty cool shot, Allen, getting them all to cooperate.

Uploading problems aside....I really like the larger version of this...the running group is very nice. Definitely worth some time working on what has been suggested. Sharon

Cool synchronized strutting Allen!
I perused over the suggestions, there's always room for improvement of course.
Great as is, well done