Posted by Mike Andrews on July 24, 2009 at 3:26 AM
Taken at Bradgate Park during the red deer rut, this small group just ran across the meadow straight towards us, stopping suddenly when we were spotted.
The picture looks over sharpened, but all I have done is darken the blown grass at the front of the pic. I haven’t sharpened at all. Should I soften it, or does this look OK?
All C&C welcome.
Nikon D300 with Nikon 200-400 mm/F4. 1/320 sec @ F4, 260 mm, ISO 400, EV -0.33. FF
Try reducing the contrast or saturation a bit - it will tone down the harshness, its not over sharpened just very contrasty, also looks a bit blue saturated on my screen giving an additional coldness to the image - looks like a bit like an old Sensia slide from the days of film needing a warm up filter!
Mike
Posted by Mike Andrews on July 24, 2009 at 5:38 AM
Thanks for the comments Mike.
I must admit to finding life difficult. I am told that the camera should be set to Adobe RGB to give the best renditions for printing etc., but for posting I should apply sRGB as a profile.
When I do that, it desaturates the colours, and I really struggle to get them back the way they were. My judgement of colour is poor.
I have tried your suggestions. The blue cast could be because it was pouring with rain most of the day - we didn't even see the sun.
The art of using the warm up filter seems to have been lost now we are in the digital age. It was used because the human perception/eye prefers a slightly warm image (as given by sunlight). To add this back in cloudy conditions images were taken with a warm up filter of various strengths.
This can now be replicated in raw file development or white balance setting by using the "shade" and "cloudy" settings, it replicates the effects of the old warm up filters. However the tendancy these days is to use "auto" white balance which will attempt to faithfully reproduce whites but will result in the slightly cold image result under cloudy conditons.
The repost is better the darker stag now has more detail in it. Also try pulling down the blue channel line in "curves" at the mid point a smigeon it will mimic a very gentle warm up filter effect - white and black points remain unchanged but it reduces the coldness
Posted by jack chapman on July 24, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Love the poses and setting here, second is probably better though i did like the blue in the first
Posted by Rene de Heer on July 24, 2009 at 10:10 AM
I second the second one! Nice pose and group!
Rene de Heer
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6 repliesThe picture looks over sharpened, but all I have done is darken the blown grass at the front of the pic. I haven’t sharpened at all. Should I soften it, or does this look OK?
All C&C welcome.
Nikon D300 with Nikon 200-400 mm/F4. 1/320 sec @ F4, 260 mm, ISO 400, EV -0.33. FF
Mike
I must admit to finding life difficult. I am told that the camera should be set to Adobe RGB to give the best renditions for printing etc., but for posting I should apply sRGB as a profile.
When I do that, it desaturates the colours, and I really struggle to get them back the way they were. My judgement of colour is poor.
I have tried your suggestions. The blue cast could be because it was pouring with rain most of the day - we didn't even see the sun.
Thanks again. Is this better in your opinion?
JohnR
This can now be replicated in raw file development or white balance setting by using the "shade" and "cloudy" settings, it replicates the effects of the old warm up filters. However the tendancy these days is to use "auto" white balance which will attempt to faithfully reproduce whites but will result in the slightly cold image result under cloudy conditons.
The repost is better the darker stag now has more detail in it. Also try pulling down the blue channel line in "curves" at the mid point a smigeon it will mimic a very gentle warm up filter effect - white and black points remain unchanged but it reduces the coldness
Rene de Heer