Mockingbird & Repost

Gallery: AvianPosted May 19, 2017200 views9 comments

Another from my trip in March/April. This one was taken in the RV Park I was staying at near Rockport, Texas. I'd put out a feeder and a water drip to see what might show up and the drip attracted one of the local Mockingbirds. I converted this to B&W because most of it was pretty much that way already except for one little oddly shaded blue patch that came from some man-made artifact. Changing to black and white did a nice job of blending it into the background.

7Dii, Sigma 150-600 C @ 516 mm, hand held, f/8, 1/800, iso 800, aperture priority, pattern metering, -1/3 EV. Processed in LR & PS CC. Cropped from a horizontal original to vertical. Cropped just a touch off the bottom and added a bit more to the top. Taken April 11th at 2:44 PM under hazy skies.

Comments and criticisms are always welcome.

Thanks,

Comments

9 comments

Comment posted by Jefferson Silva on May 19, 2017 at 9:55 PM

Nice bird pose, and the B&W version turned into a very nice image, Dennis!

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Comment posted by Ed Williams on May 19, 2017 at 11:44 PM

Nice look at this mockingbird Dennis. The pose is great and the B & W looks really nice here. The larger version is nice and sharp and has really nice lighting. Good work.

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Comment posted by Matt Shellenberg on May 20, 2017 at 11:33 AM

You captured a nice pose on this one, Dennis. A good candidate for a B&W. I think maybe a bit of additional contrast would make this pop a little more in B&W.

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on May 20, 2017 at 12:56 PM

Very nice pose Dennis, the image looks a bit flat as a black and white, as Matt suggested you could try increasing the contrast. devil

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Comment posted by Peter J. Morrissey on May 20, 2017 at 3:21 PM

Hi Dennis
The Black & White makes you look at the Mockingbird more closely. Nice work.
Peter

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on May 20, 2017 at 5:44 PM

Thanks for the suggestion on contrast, Matt & Nate. You can tell I don't do much B&W. Here's a repost with some tweaking via levels and curves layers. You can click on the image for a larger version.

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Comment posted by Matt Shellenberg on May 20, 2017 at 7:13 PM

I really like the repost, Dennis. The change really brings out the fine detail.

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Comment posted by Jim Zablotny on May 21, 2017 at 6:47 AM

Dennis,

The repost is much better than the original. Well done with the additional contrast.....................Jim

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Comment posted by Jenaya Launstein on June 1, 2017 at 12:53 PM

He's striking a great pose for you! I can't think of a single critique for this one. It looks gorgeous in B&W, it almost gives a wintery mood to it, haha.

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