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calling grey partridge

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Posted by Mark Green on March 11, 2010 at 4:03 PM
calling grey partridge
Another one from yesterday. hopefully i have the processing a little better on this one. :smile: .
when she heard another one calling she would respond straight away.
There such funny birds to watch :biggrin:

7D
500 F4 @ F4
1/320
ISO400

PP ACR and PS4

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Mark.G
Posted by David Taylor on March 11, 2010 at 4:16 PM
Works for me. Pity there's no sound. :smile: :wink:

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Posted by Justin on March 11, 2010 at 4:18 PM
A well composed image and captured at the perfect moment. :cool:
Posted by Phillip Tomkinson on March 11, 2010 at 5:09 PM
Hi Mark captured at the perfect moment a very nice image.

Phil.

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Posted by Rene de Heer on March 12, 2010 at 2:46 AM
I like everything about it! Top shot of a not very easy bird!
Rene de Heer
Posted by Major Gilbert on March 12, 2010 at 3:44 AM
Caught just at the right moment and I can hear it now.
Mimic the call Mark and you can set them off calling like this. They are indeed quite comical birds and look out for those squabbles that occur. The calling sometimes being a prelude to this event but the action that follows can be rather rapid.
Like it.
Major.
Posted by John Chapman on March 12, 2010 at 3:50 AM
Hi Mark, super capture no nits from me. :toast:
Posted by David Sewell on March 12, 2010 at 4:40 AM
Hi Mark, congratulations on a superb capture. On my screen the picture looks a little flat and could do with a slight tweak in levels, but I am looking on my uncalibrated work monitor, so that may be to blame.

David
Posted by Tom_W on March 12, 2010 at 4:42 AM
Nice capture and I would agree with David, either levels or a tad of contrast.
Posted by Ian Macdermott on March 12, 2010 at 4:57 AM
Hi Mark,

another cracking shot well done :toast:

I agree with Tom and David that it looks a little flat though :wink:
Posted by Mark Green on March 12, 2010 at 5:07 AM
Cool thanks guys, I am not sure what i am doing wrong, if i open the jpg in photoshop and load this webpage and compare side by side , the JPG in Photoshop has loads more punch, and the web image is flat, all my JPGs are like this. I convert the image to 8 bits, and do a few more rounds of USM. should i be doing something else to make the image ready for web.

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Mark.G
Posted by Andy Shepherd on March 12, 2010 at 6:07 AM

I can never get close to these birds, so congrats on the shot Mark, as already mentioned, great timing to catch the Partridge mid call.

Are you converting to sRGB before posting to web ?

Andy...
Posted by tony flashman on March 12, 2010 at 6:42 AM
Excellent behaviour shot, agree with the comments re the image looking flat. This happens to mine when i forget to convert to srgb.

Tony :toast: :toast:
Posted by John Robinson on March 12, 2010 at 8:15 AM
Something else we don't get here .
Lovely shot. Nits covered.
JohnR
Posted by Mark Davies on March 12, 2010 at 8:22 AM
A fine image Mark and not easy to achieve, timed to perfection .A patch tool job to the stalk at the rear of the bird and the oof one bottom right improved it .Converted to sRGB and contrast added ,trust you approve .
Posted by Craig Jones on March 12, 2010 at 9:08 AM
Great capture,love the composition,first looks a tad light,second one is to much somewhere in the middle for me,wonderful image :wink: :wavey:
Posted by Ian Haskell on March 12, 2010 at 9:10 AM
Nice shot Mark G. The extra bit of contrast added by MD seems to have added to it IMO...great job to start with though.

Ian
Posted by Philip Newman on March 12, 2010 at 10:10 AM
Repost improves this lovely image. :wavey: :wavey:

Posted by Mark Green on March 12, 2010 at 10:13 AM
Thanks mark, much better. I do approve :biggrin:
thats what i was doing wrong , i have saved all my JPG's as Adobe 1998, and not converting to sRGB. thanks for all the info guys. what a muppet i am :wink:

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Mark.G
Posted by Paul Rosser on March 12, 2010 at 10:36 AM
A nice image, improved upon by Mark.
Regards,
Paul. :wavey:
Posted by David Sewell on March 12, 2010 at 11:02 AM
The second image brings out the quality in this lovely shot.

David
Posted by Paul Hobson on March 12, 2010 at 5:34 PM
second image has more punch, great action

Paul
Posted by Bob Cox on March 13, 2010 at 4:31 PM
Very nice shot with the right back ground.

Bob.