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Woody on a twig+repost

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Posted by John Robinson on March 29, 2009 at 5:27 PM
Woody on a twig+repost
Bit of a change of perch for this bird.
In the garden yesterday
D200
Sigma 50-500
ISO 500
125th @ f8
other usual in Paint Shop pro.
Cheers
John
Posted by Richard Peters on March 29, 2009 at 5:50 PM
Nicely done John, good pose, perch and background. I'd maybe brighten it up tad if it were mine :smile:
Posted by Ian Macdermott on March 29, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Hi John,

nice pose and perch but agree it could do with being a touch brighter to separate it from the background. :smile:




Ian
Posted by John Robinson on March 29, 2009 at 6:12 PM
Thanks both. I haven't got used to this monitor yet. - 2 inches head up and its light- 2 inches head down and its dark. I'll have a play !
Cheers
JohnR
Posted by Ian Mason on March 29, 2009 at 6:14 PM
Looks good to me! Still waiting to get one. I wonder if the blacks would be too light if you tried to brighten it. Maybe a little more contrast?
Posted by PhilH on March 30, 2009 at 3:56 AM
A little more punch and this will be very nice affording a view of parts not often seen well....



:toast: :wavey: :toast:
Posted by Sandra Hendrikse on March 30, 2009 at 6:48 AM
Looks good to me too. Very nice picture. :smile:
Posted by John Robinson on March 30, 2009 at 7:43 AM
Beefed it up a bit .
JR
Posted by Ian Macdermott on March 30, 2009 at 7:48 AM
Looks much better John :toast:




Ian
Posted by Mark Davies on March 30, 2009 at 7:59 AM
Nice image and the repost adds that small amount of punch .In PS ,sorry mate i dont do PSP anymore ,but try pressing Control,alt ,shift and tild ( tild is the ~ sign) altogether ( this selects all pixels above mid grey)release for marching ants ,Control J to copy and paste to a new layer. Change blend mode to screen and drop opacity to about 50 to 70 % this will stop the dreaded 255's appearing, merge down .Did it for me. ( just and old trick i learnt) .Mark
Posted by John Chapman on March 30, 2009 at 8:10 AM
Very nice capture John. :toast:
Posted by PhilH on March 30, 2009 at 8:33 AM
Repost looks good.... you are also posting untagged RGB, try converting to sRGB, should make a difference on most browsers.

Phil
Posted by Guy Rogers on March 30, 2009 at 9:58 AM
Hello John.

Nice capture of the GSW and the repost is better. But there are some bright yellow areas on the body that look unnatural.

:wavey: :wavey: :wavey:
Posted by Brett Lewis on March 30, 2009 at 2:04 PM
Really nice work John, very pleasing.

Brett :toast: :toast:
Posted by John Robinson on March 30, 2009 at 4:24 PM
Thanks
All
Mark
Haven't got Photo shop.
This is the first time I've had this sort of a problem in about 300 postings.I can usually sort things in PSPro.
Phil
All he pics I post are processed the same way so I presume they are all "un tagged " whatever that means.
Wouldn't know how to find sRGB anyway apart from the fact that thats how they are taken on the camera.
Must read the book .!!
There are in fact yellowish marks on this birds chest but my alterations have enhanced them a bit.
Thanks again.
JohnR