Another shot of a kingfisher i took. I dont know the details of what i took it at but it was with my D70 and sigma 300mm lense in a hide and i was about 7ft away from the little beauty.
i will take this into consideration when i take and post new pictures in the future.
I prefer this to your last post, with the subject being more isolated from the bg. I think it could go with another round of usm, just to make the bird 'pop' a little more. It might also be worth playing with the colour correction - I think it has a slightly green cast.
You've done the hard work - just a couple of processing points that may help.
Good work - keep them coming!
Posted by Peter Stewart on June 11, 2007 at 11:17 AM
This might sound like a stupid question but what is USM??
Firstly USM is unsharp mask in Adobe. It's used for shapening an image.
This is a lot better than your previous post, As Pete E says just a couple of processing points. You can also post the image bigger ( I think it's 700 on it's longest edge).
The background is better, but I find when setting up a perch I always have at least 8 metres from the BG to the perch so the BG is blurred.
Think that measurement is 720 on the longest side Peter and it nice to be able to post at this size and show off your Kingfisher image even more.
Background would have been better and not quite so distracting if you could have distanced it from the perch but we all know thats not always poss. Sometimes just moving a few inches one way or another can give you a totally diferent BG. Easy for me to say as things can straight out of the window when confronted by such a beutiful bird as this.
The photo was actually taken from my hide and i never actually set up the perch it was all done wild really. I had been watching them for a while and this was a regular fishing place for them. I never thought of staging a perch for them to sit so i could get quality photo. I have always waited in my hide for any subjects to pass and snapped them. Usslually with me sitting there for hours on end eating my cheese butties!! ha ha.
But any advice whatsoever would be great from everyone to help me along whatever it maybe.
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5 repliesAnother shot of a kingfisher i took. I dont know the details of what i took it at but it was with my D70 and sigma 300mm lense in a hide and i was about 7ft away from the little beauty.
i will take this into consideration when i take and post new pictures in the future.
Any feeback would be great
Pete.
I prefer this to your last post, with the subject being more isolated from the bg. I think it could go with another round of usm, just to make the bird 'pop' a little more. It might also be worth playing with the colour correction - I think it has a slightly green cast.
You've done the hard work - just a couple of processing points that may help.
Good work - keep them coming!
Firstly USM is unsharp mask in Adobe. It's used for shapening an image.
This is a lot better than your previous post, As Pete E says just a couple of processing points. You can also post the image bigger ( I think it's 700 on it's longest edge).
The background is better, but I find when setting up a perch I always have at least 8 metres from the BG to the perch so the BG is blurred.
Everything said it's still a nice shot
Regards
Rob
Background would have been better and not quite so distracting if you could have distanced it from the perch but we all know thats not always poss. Sometimes just moving a few inches one way or another can give you a totally diferent BG. Easy for me to say as things can straight out of the window when confronted by such a beutiful bird as this.
Major.
Major.
The photo was actually taken from my hide and i never actually set up the perch it was all done wild really. I had been watching them for a while and this was a regular fishing place for them. I never thought of staging a perch for them to sit so i could get quality photo. I have always waited in my hide for any subjects to pass and snapped them. Usslually with me sitting there for hours on end eating my cheese butties!! ha ha.
But any advice whatsoever would be great from everyone to help me along whatever it maybe.
Thanks again.
Pete Stewart.