Posted by Dave Cordery on October 19, 2007 at 5:12 PM
This is my first post and all C&C welcome. All I wish to do is improve my photography. I have been viewing this forum for a long while now and felt it was time to take the plunge.
I took this picture last year, when a friend invited mt to Poole after telling me he had seen several warblers near his house. Having never seen one before I jumped at the chance.
20D 300mm f4 1.4TC almost 100%crop
Dave Cordery
Posted by Andy Astbury on October 19, 2007 at 6:24 PM
Welcome Dave
Only two basic nits, firstly, I think you might have lost something of the image quality with your compression settings or somewhere else in your processing - is the image done in Photoshop and what compression settings have you used?
Secondly, the bird needs space to the left of the frame to 'look into' - you could add some canvass to the left edge and clone some BG in (perhaps a tad at the top aswell). Something you will come across from time to time is the mention of 'the rule of thirds' for compossing images - it's been around for ever, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds
Never had the opportunity to snap on of these guys so well done
All the best, and keep posting Dave
Posted by Dave Cordery on October 20, 2007 at 4:27 AM
Andy
I will take on board your comments and thanks. As a matter of interest what compression do you recommend?
Hello Dave
A warm welcome from me, too. I think we all learn a great deal from this site, and, like many other things in life, the more you put in, then the more you get out.
Good advice from Andy as usual on your nice first post.
Best wishes
Phil
Posted by Andy Astbury on October 20, 2007 at 4:53 AM
Hi Dave - out of CS2/3 I always save two jpeg versions - one at 100% quality which will yield an average file size of above 300KB (720x480) and then another at between 80% and 95% quality.
Always use the 2-up view and make sure you convert the colour profile to sRGB before you save - I think Save for Web does it automatically, but I take no chances
Keep up the goodly works
Posted by Rob Howard on October 20, 2007 at 5:41 AM
Hi Dave,
Welcome to the forum Agree with above posts. You could always try less crop and have a more enviro type shot
Regards
Rob
Posted by Paul Thomas on October 20, 2007 at 7:08 AM
Hi Dave and welcome
Ditto the above comments. Also, it seems to me that the camera locked focus on the gorse just in front of the bird rather the bird itself. Try to get the focus point over the subject's eye.
I would certainly go for less crop here give the bird more room particularly to the left, this will also help with the quality, great to have the prey....
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9 repliesI took this picture last year, when a friend invited mt to Poole after telling me he had seen several warblers near his house. Having never seen one before I jumped at the chance.
20D 300mm f4 1.4TC almost 100%crop
Dave Cordery
Only two basic nits, firstly, I think you might have lost something of the image quality with your compression settings or somewhere else in your processing - is the image done in Photoshop and what compression settings have you used?
Secondly, the bird needs space to the left of the frame to 'look into' - you could add some canvass to the left edge and clone some BG in (perhaps a tad at the top aswell). Something you will come across from time to time is the mention of 'the rule of thirds' for compossing images - it's been around for ever, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds
Never had the opportunity to snap on of these guys so well done
All the best, and keep posting Dave
I will take on board your comments and thanks. As a matter of interest what compression do you recommend?
Regards
Dave
A warm welcome from me, too. I think we all learn a great deal from this site, and, like many other things in life, the more you put in, then the more you get out.
Good advice from Andy as usual on your nice first post.
Best wishes
Phil
Always use the 2-up view and make sure you convert the colour profile to sRGB before you save - I think Save for Web does it automatically, but I take no chances
Keep up the goodly works
Welcome to the forum
Regards
Rob
Ditto the above comments. Also, it seems to me that the camera locked focus on the gorse just in front of the bird rather the bird itself. Try to get the focus point over the subject's eye.
Paul
I would certainly go for less crop here give the bird more room particularly to the left, this will also help with the quality, great to have the prey....