Posted by eric weight on December 14, 2007 at 6:51 AM
I'm not terribly good at warblers, but I have this one filed under reed warbler. Taken early one morning at Pagham Harbour in the summer.C&C welcome.
Thanks for looking.
400D 100-400 @400x1.4 hand held
1/500 f5.6
usm (100/0.8/2) x2 nn on background
crop Ls to Portrait
Posted by Andy Astbury on December 14, 2007 at 7:10 AM
Well I can't agree or disagree with your id Eric as I'm REALLY bad with them myself
Lovely image - nice comp
I'd clone out the stray bits at the top left
Posted by Paul Ashton on December 14, 2007 at 8:21 AM
Looks like a Reed Warbler to me. Plain face, location. The Sedge has bold eye stripe. A nice image but a little more saturation and contrast would help.
Posted by Pete Etheridge on December 14, 2007 at 9:08 AM
Looks like a Reed Warbler to me too, but I'm happy to be proved wrong! A very intimate shot.
Posted by eric weight on December 14, 2007 at 1:43 PM
Thanks for the input, I've turned the saturation up a bit on this and cloned out those reeds as suggested. I'm a bit puzzled as to why my pictures look so dull when I post them on this site and yet they seem much more saturated back in photoshop??
Posted by Andy Astbury on December 14, 2007 at 1:52 PM
Niceer now the bits have gone Eric - but I think the colour was more accurate in the first post matey
It looked great on this big HP - now it looks a bit like a little orangy job
Posted by eric weight on December 14, 2007 at 4:35 PM
Thanks Andy, I am kinda pleased about that because I thought the colour looked better the first time round. Thanks for your time.
Posted by Andy Astbury on December 14, 2007 at 5:59 PM
Eric, I just noticed your comment about your posted images.
As I said I think your first image looks fine here on my monitor which is calibrated - colour wise it looks fine, just a bit flat due to apparent poor light conditions when you took the shot.
Now if you think the first post looks different on your own machine when viewed in say PS as opposed to on your monitor viewing it in your browser I'd suspect that your image was saved in the wrong colour profile.
Images for the web need to be in the sRGB colour profile as it has a narrower colour gamut more easily displayed in web browsers.
Working the image is PS you'll be in a native AdobeRGB1998 profile - if you save the image as a jpeg in that profile it'll usually look somewhat washed out when viewed on a web browser even though it looks fine on your local drive.
Is this a possibility, and also is your monitor calibrated to 6500K and a gamma of 2.2?
As I said, I think your first post looked fine if a bit flat, but your own comments suggest it might look a bight brighter your end - are you in the correct profile
Posted by David Kjaer on December 15, 2007 at 4:54 AM
Hi Eric
Yes the image does look a little flat and I am sure a simple levels adjustment will make all the difference plus saving it in sRGB. That said everything else about the image ia a winner - great setting, pose and composition!
David
Posted by eric weight on December 15, 2007 at 5:56 AM
Eureka, Andy I think you are spot on there. All my photoshop work is in A RGB. Something else that I have learnt already. I will be calibrating my monitor over the holiday so I can keep up with you guys. Thanks for your help and comments everyone.
Discussion
9 repliesThanks for looking.
400D 100-400 @400x1.4 hand held
1/500 f5.6
usm (100/0.8/2) x2 nn on background
crop Ls to Portrait
Lovely image - nice comp
I'd clone out the stray bits at the top left
It looked great on this big HP - now it looks a bit like a little orangy job
As I said I think your first image looks fine here on my monitor which is calibrated - colour wise it looks fine, just a bit flat due to apparent poor light conditions when you took the shot.
Now if you think the first post looks different on your own machine when viewed in say PS as opposed to on your monitor viewing it in your browser I'd suspect that your image was saved in the wrong colour profile.
Images for the web need to be in the sRGB colour profile as it has a narrower colour gamut more easily displayed in web browsers.
Working the image is PS you'll be in a native AdobeRGB1998 profile - if you save the image as a jpeg in that profile it'll usually look somewhat washed out when viewed on a web browser even though it looks fine on your local drive.
Is this a possibility, and also is your monitor calibrated to 6500K and a gamma of 2.2?
As I said, I think your first post looked fine if a bit flat, but your own comments suggest it might look a bight brighter your end - are you in the correct profile
Yes the image does look a little flat and I am sure a simple levels adjustment will make all the difference plus saving it in sRGB. That said everything else about the image ia a winner - great setting, pose and composition!
David