Posted by Mike Andrews on July 28, 2009 at 2:59 AM
I supplied the mealworms but he spotted the fly at the edge of the pond.
Taken in June last year. Slight crop, but still struggling to get the colours right. As soon as I apply sRGB it washes out the colour, and I find it really hard to get it the way it looked originally.
Should I be shooting in sRGB rather than Adobe RGB?
Nikon D300 with Nikon 80-400/F4-5.6 @ 360mm/F5.3. 1/1000, ISO 400, EV -0.67
This is the first time I've seen a Robin with a damselfly, so well done on the capture, light is very harsh, but it doesn't look too bad, the only real nits are that the BG looks very pixelated and the OOF part of the perch draws the eye a little, other than those it's a nice shot.
Lovely shot and a very nice capture. The colours look fine on my monitor, but I agree with Andy about the oof part of the perch which draws the eye a little.
It's a lovely lunch time capture.
I'm seeing artifacts/noise all round the edge of the bird/perch as if noise reduction has been done but not soft brushed into the bird. Saying that that I am viewing on my work monitor which is nearly older than me.
All the best
Calum
Posted by Mike Andrews on July 28, 2009 at 5:43 AM
I haven't done any noise reduction etc. on this pic.
I have just tried to remove the OOF perch, and decided to go back to the original. This is not cropped, just resized. I can't see any problems in the BG, and if I try to remove something I can't see, I'll probably mess it up, so I'll have to accept that.
Thanks for the comments folks - all are very welcome.
Which mode to shoot in is a perenial problem, its down to what you want to do with the images, how much time you want to spend in the digital workshop. My simple take on this is as follows:
Adobe RGB 16 bit+ files plus will preserve the maximum amount of colour information so such a raw file is frequently considered the best master digital negative to use as your base point.
The web environment cannot currently handle this amount of colour information so will block out/bleed a lot of the colours, hence 8 bit sRGB is the optimum web presentation file type.
Modern 6 colour+ bubblejet printers and the professional CMYK printers can handle a greater colour gamut hence Adobe RGB is preferred.
What can be out of kilter is that the so called "wide gamut" LCD monitors can actually physically display a narrower gamut than sRGB so check the gamut chart carefully when considering an upgrade monitor, you may not actualy get the print WYSIWYG you thought with RGB files using such a monitor
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7 repliesTaken in June last year. Slight crop, but still struggling to get the colours right. As soon as I apply sRGB it washes out the colour, and I find it really hard to get it the way it looked originally.
Should I be shooting in sRGB rather than Adobe RGB?
Nikon D300 with Nikon 80-400/F4-5.6 @ 360mm/F5.3. 1/1000, ISO 400, EV -0.67
This is the first time I've seen a Robin with a damselfly, so well done on the capture, light is very harsh, but it doesn't look too bad, the only real nits are that the BG looks very pixelated and the OOF part of the perch draws the eye a little, other than those it's a nice shot.
Andy...
I'm seeing artifacts/noise all round the edge of the bird/perch as if noise reduction has been done but not soft brushed into the bird. Saying that that I am viewing on my work monitor which is nearly older than me.
All the best
Calum
I have just tried to remove the OOF perch, and decided to go back to the original. This is not cropped, just resized. I can't see any problems in the BG, and if I try to remove something I can't see, I'll probably mess it up, so I'll have to accept that.
Thanks for the comments folks - all are very welcome.
Adobe RGB 16 bit+ files plus will preserve the maximum amount of colour information so such a raw file is frequently considered the best master digital negative to use as your base point.
The web environment cannot currently handle this amount of colour information so will block out/bleed a lot of the colours, hence 8 bit sRGB is the optimum web presentation file type.
Modern 6 colour+ bubblejet printers and the professional CMYK printers can handle a greater colour gamut hence Adobe RGB is preferred.
What can be out of kilter is that the so called "wide gamut" LCD monitors can actually physically display a narrower gamut than sRGB so check the gamut chart carefully when considering an upgrade monitor, you may not actualy get the print WYSIWYG you thought with RGB files using such a monitor