Posted by Mike Andrews on June 24, 2009 at 7:42 AM
Had to do something while the light was poor, so I went down to the shore. Fortunately a boat came by, and this little fellow decided to see if he could outrun it.
Nikon D3, Nikon 300mm/2.8 @F8. 1/800 ISO 400 EV +0.7
Posted by Mike Andrews on June 24, 2009 at 1:51 PM
That makes it worthwhile posting this pic. The bird appears sharp at high res. but unfortunately not at low. It's the action that makes this shot a joy for me.
Nice one Mike - you might look at a 3:1 ratio panoramic crop on this - will remove some of the dead space and concentrate on the action which I'm sure is sharp at higher res.
Mark
Posted by Mike Andrews on June 24, 2009 at 4:01 PM
Lovely shot very different from the usual portrait stuff like the way the splashes plays just as an important part.
Regarding the posting this is what I do to post an image.
Open and turn the image to a 16bit tiff and change the profile to sRGB
Size the image by selecting 72dpi and change the pixel dimension to 720 on the longest side, when ever you change an image size you will need to sharpen it which I use unsharp mask set the Amount to 30, the Radius to 0.3 and Threshold to 0, apply this 3 or four times. As a final tweak I just select the curves and alter slightly just to boost the contrast and turn it back to 8 bit tiff and save as a jpeg. Pretty simple no frills so just give it a try.
Hi Mike
Interesting to hear Danny's methods for posting.
Mine are just basic JPEGs to start with and sRGB anyway
All I do is resize 720 pixels longest size ( bi linear - make sure its not bi cubic ! ))
Sharpen once ( not mask )
And thats it.
Paint Shop Pro by the way.
Just shows- there's more than one way to skin a cat !
Cheers
John
Definately like the pano format much better and works as Mark suggested it would. I also believe the image would benefit from a little contrast work, the blacks could be blacker to my eye. Lastly I will be picky and say that the little chap appears to be running downhill, but a small rotation would be an easy fix.
Many Regards
JohnS
Posted by Dennis Binda on June 25, 2009 at 1:32 AM
Discussion
9 repliesNikon D3, Nikon 300mm/2.8 @F8. 1/800 ISO 400 EV +0.7
Bertl
Mark
Lovely shot very different from the usual portrait stuff like the way the splashes plays just as an important part.
Regarding the posting this is what I do to post an image.
Open and turn the image to a 16bit tiff and change the profile to sRGB
Size the image by selecting 72dpi and change the pixel dimension to 720 on the longest side, when ever you change an image size you will need to sharpen it which I use unsharp mask set the Amount to 30, the Radius to 0.3 and Threshold to 0, apply this 3 or four times. As a final tweak I just select the curves and alter slightly just to boost the contrast and turn it back to 8 bit tiff and save as a jpeg. Pretty simple no frills so just give it a try.
Danny
Interesting to hear Danny's methods for posting.
Mine are just basic JPEGs to start with and sRGB anyway
All I do is resize 720 pixels longest size ( bi linear - make sure its not bi cubic ! ))
Sharpen once ( not mask )
And thats it.
Paint Shop Pro by the way.
Just shows- there's more than one way to skin a cat !
Cheers
John
Many Regards
JohnS
cheers, Dennis