Cardinal Re-Post

Gallery: AvianPosted November 5, 2014101 views3 comments

Photographed in Herontown Woods in Princeton, New Jersey May 17, 2013

This was formerly posted, and this re-post is the result of a lesson with Keith Bauer. If you like it congratulate me. If you don't blame Keith, or perhaps the dog ate my homework.

Nikon D800 Nikkor 600MM 1.4 TC 1/1000 f/8 ISO 1250 RAW Manual White Balance Auto Shot with a Wimberley gimbal on a tripod using a Better Beamer on a Nikon 900 flash. Processed in Lightroom and PhotoshopCC2014.

Your comments are welcome and appreciated.

Comments

3 comments

Comment posted by Ken Watkins on November 6, 2014 at 5:34 AM

Patrick,
Took me some time to find the OP, but this is undoubtedly better slightly darker?
Luminosity Mask?

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Comment posted by Patrick O'Healy on November 6, 2014 at 1:55 PM

Ken,
We processed this photos largely using Lightroom and Photoshop. We used NIK to noise reduce and sharpen. We masked the bird and the branch to clone out offending background, and used the radial filter in the develop module in Lightroom.

This the result of a very significant crop. Thank you for your comment.

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Comment posted by Jim DeWitt on November 8, 2014 at 1:55 AM

I think there's a slight loss of detail from the crop, but that's my only nit, Patrick. Fine post-processing.

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