I have only ever seen Yellow Wagtails once before so chancing upon a family of them was a real treat for me today.
I do not believe they are that common in the northern part of Suffolk so finding them on my doorstep was even better.
An entire family with their Pied relatives. No wet areas nearby - only barley fields. The dung heap was a little wet around the bottom though.
I got quite a few images but just liked the contrast of adult bird and cr*p/straw.
Weather not kind this afternoon though so will have to go back as soon as a decent window opens.
Canon 350D / Canon 300mm F2.8 IS / 1.4 TC
ISO 400
1/800 sec
F/6.3
Now the question - What sort of settings do people who use CS/2 and smart sharpen for prints use? (I'm printing around 8x6in.)
My settings at the moment are Amount c.250 and radius c. 1.1
I like the image, very unusual which is always refreshing, and lucky you to find this species....
with regard to USM. 98% of the time I use the bog standard USM at 200-1.0-0.. not keen on programs that decide what they do with my images,as in Smart sharpen.......
Stewart
Posted by Rob Howard on August 18, 2006 at 6:25 PM
Hi Antony,
Very nice shot. Like you I really like the contrast between the bird and it's surroundings, reminds me of the image entered into IWP of the Yellowhammer......
Anyway, regarding USM I use just USM applied five times at rates 100,0.2,0. Also a last round of USM at 20,30,0. Although this last application does'nt really work with an image with a lot of white in it.
HTH
Regards
Rob
Posted by Mike Smith on August 19, 2006 at 2:31 AM
Hi Antony, yellow wag are a farmland bird, (it's the grey wag that is found on flowing streams etc) numbers have crashed and is now a relatively uncommon breeding bird in the UK
As with others I do not use smart sharpen function.
Incidentaly the last 20/30/0 pass used by Rob may look brutal, but is known as "contrast sharpening", it removes the grey fuzziness in landscapes etc and adds a bit of bite and guess what, contrast.....
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3 repliesI do not believe they are that common in the northern part of Suffolk so finding them on my doorstep was even better.
An entire family with their Pied relatives. No wet areas nearby - only barley fields. The dung heap was a little wet around the bottom though.
I got quite a few images but just liked the contrast of adult bird and cr*p/straw.
Weather not kind this afternoon though so will have to go back as soon as a decent window opens.
Canon 350D / Canon 300mm F2.8 IS / 1.4 TC
ISO 400
1/800 sec
F/6.3
Now the question - What sort of settings do people who use CS/2 and smart sharpen for prints use? (I'm printing around 8x6in.)
My settings at the moment are Amount c.250 and radius c. 1.1
Regards
I like the image, very unusual which is always refreshing, and lucky you to find this species....
with regard to USM. 98% of the time I use the bog standard USM at 200-1.0-0.. not keen on programs that decide what they do with my images,as in Smart sharpen.......
Stewart
Very nice shot. Like you I really like the contrast between the bird and it's surroundings, reminds me of the image entered into IWP of the Yellowhammer......
Anyway, regarding USM I use just USM applied five times at rates 100,0.2,0. Also a last round of USM at 20,30,0. Although this last application does'nt really work with an image with a lot of white in it.
HTH
Regards
Rob
As with others I do not use smart sharpen function.
Incidentaly the last 20/30/0 pass used by Rob may look brutal, but is known as "contrast sharpening", it removes the grey fuzziness in landscapes etc and adds a bit of bite and guess what, contrast.....
Mike