by Dennis Plank
Yet another one from March 3rd at Salineño. Maybe one more, then I think I'll move on.
7Dii, 500mm f4 ISL + 1.4TC, Jobu Gimbal on RRS legs, f/5.6, 1/5000, iso 1250, aperture priority, center weighted average metering, no compensation. Processing in LR5 & CS6. This started out about 2/3 of a stop underexposed. I increased the exposure in Lightroom and after separating the bird and perch from the bg in CS6, I brought the bg back down about 1/3 of a stop to make the bird pop a bit more and keep the bg from being too glaring. Cropped to 4x5 aspect ratio, full height. Taken at 11:04 am.
Thanks for your comments and critique.
Comments
8 commentsFine image, Dennis ! The bird is perfectly rendered, the pose very satisfying compositionally, and the handling of the backdrop, with the hints of landscape, works superbly.
I imagine (I can only see very small images) the sharpness is good or excellent, and I like much your images also for colours and composition. But the added value is IMHO the bokeh, with those soft lines (branches)....
Sandro
Hi Dennis, the light BKG certainly provides standout for the subject, good to have a minimal colour and something that doesn't clash or competes withthe subject. If you have it, perhaps a little more on the LHS and less on the R and taking it off slightly centred???
You certainly have some colourful subject to work with.
TFS
Steve
Nice one Dennis, you workflow resulted in a well-balanced image! Great piece work
, cheers, Hans
Good processing technique. A good thought to bear in mind when composing how you will separately treat the subject and background in separate layers. And not just light issues, but detailing, color and a variety of other parameters are more finely addressed separately. You've done pretty good processing here and it shows.
I like this a lot Dennis. I think these are very cool birds. and it's very rare that one finds these guys on such an unclutered perch with a farily clean background. Very nice work!
Phil said: "A good thought to bear in mind when composing how you will separately treat the subject and background in separate layers. And not just light issues, but detailing, color and a variety of other parameters are more finely addressed separately."
In recent months, I've started separating the subject and bg into separate layers as part of my standard workflow. Luckily modern selection software (I use Topaz Remask, but there are plenty of others) makes selection relatively easy compared to the bad old days. The blending with other layes also seems to work better than the old techniques.
Dennis, I agree with others about nie job with the BG and the processing. But I also agree with Steve about the comp. I think it might be even stronger with more room on the LHS and less on the right.