Da Vinci Ram

Gallery: Photo ArtPosted October 28, 2014348 views8 comments

I came across this guy at the end of a great day, but the sun had already gone down. For that reason, the original image was taken at a high ISO and also intentionally under-exposed a bit, to try and maximize shutter speed.

The net result was a nice pose in an image with too much noise to process effectively.

Well, Topaz Labs recently released their new "Impression" software. I used the Da Vinci filter here, along with some layers in Photoshop to bring back portions of the original image.

1/60 sec @ f/5.0, 100-400mm lens @ 200mm, ISO 1600, -1/3EV

Comments

8 comments

Comment posted by Mike Ramy on October 28, 2014 at 6:04 PM

Hey Karen,
What a Save !
Your processing ideas have worked very well in my opinion.
Well done . . .

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Comment posted by Barb Pflaum on October 28, 2014 at 8:07 PM

This turned out very well, Karen! I love the pose. Your processing made this into a very nice artistic image.

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Comment posted by Howard Cheek on October 29, 2014 at 11:05 AM

Excellent save Karen, this is great!

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Comment posted by Marc Ward on October 29, 2014 at 10:20 PM

This is really a nice save... I wonder what a square format would look like? A cropped square image could put the head at "thirds" and possibly make this a even more compelling image.

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Comment posted by Catherine Reilly on October 31, 2014 at 3:41 PM

Wow! absolutely stunning art effects beautifully applied to this amazing shot of the ram. That's a long way of saying, I LOVE IT! What a rescue of a fine image!!

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on November 5, 2014 at 9:09 AM

Karen, this looks great. Nice save! I also wonder about letting the entire image go sepia for an alternate "old time" look.

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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on January 8, 2015 at 3:24 AM

Beautiful!
This is why I never pitch an image that has even a little potential - who knows what we can make of it one day.
Sandy

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Comment posted by g k walker on February 4, 2015 at 11:29 PM

Vey nice..The vignette gives it an antique look. Would not crop it. Perhaps a tonal contrast to soften background a little.

Registered on August 2, 2014, 34 Posts, 52 Comments