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An 'Old' Heron

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Posted by Stephen Kaluski on April 7, 2010 at 4:57 AM
An 'Old' Heron
From the expression of this guy, it looks like he forgot to put his teeth in. :biggrin:

Steve
MKIII 500f/4 1/400 sec f/11 ISO400 (Gitzo tripod/Wimberely head, FF)
Posted by David Sewell on April 7, 2010 at 5:15 AM
He looks like he belongs with Waldorf and Statler from the muppets. Great, comic shot.

David
Posted by Simon Phillpotts on April 7, 2010 at 5:56 AM
Certainly seems to have more human characteristics than a bird from that angle. Different take Steve, nice one :toast:
Posted by Marcus Conway on April 7, 2010 at 5:58 AM
Great pose. Really like the way the light shines through the eyes :toast:
Posted by Dave Bartlett on April 7, 2010 at 6:08 AM
Manic looking bird! Love it :toast:
Posted by Austin Thomas on April 7, 2010 at 6:19 AM
You did very well to get that close to a Heron Steve.

Good to see both eyes as well.

Cheers

Austin
Posted by Peter Edge on April 7, 2010 at 6:23 AM
Tons of character in this shot.technically great but its the expression that makes it.
Pete
Posted by Ian Macdermott on April 7, 2010 at 7:28 AM
Great shot Stephen :toast:

He reminds me of John a friend who has no teeth :biggrin:

Lovely background
Posted by Major Gilbert on April 7, 2010 at 7:44 AM
Now if Rod Hull was still alive he might be adopting him as Emu(If you can remeber him)
As mentioned a bit of a character showing through here.

Major.
Posted by Phil Mclean on April 7, 2010 at 7:52 AM
Great character.I'm not sure about the Muppets but wasn't there a bird in Sesame Street that looked like this.

Phil. :toast:
Posted by Brett Lewis on April 7, 2010 at 8:15 AM
I think I had a teacher that looked like that once...! Comical and well executed.

Brett :toast:
Posted by David Taylor on April 7, 2010 at 8:19 AM
Now this is what I call a portrait, just up my street. Ripe for anthropomorphisation.

:toast: :toast: :jump:
Posted by Dave Courtenay on April 7, 2010 at 8:48 AM
A different take on a common subject, Face on's dont normally work for birds but it does here

Dave :toast: :toast:
Posted by simon manning on April 7, 2010 at 9:05 AM
Great shot Steve ,its nice to see one that isnt 500 yards away :wink: (looks like our local postman)

Simon
Posted by Andy Gregory on April 7, 2010 at 11:14 AM
A superb shot Stephen, I have never seen one of a Heron quite like it! :jump:
Posted by Lewis Thomson on April 7, 2010 at 1:41 PM

Hi Steve,

Thats a cracker, great expression caught there with super detail! If I was being really picky, I can see a slight dark halo along the top of the birds head on my screen.

Cheers,

Lewis.
:toast:
Posted by Stephen Kaluski on April 7, 2010 at 2:07 PM
Hi Lewis

I know what you mean, it might be from slightly 'tweaking', if anything to sRGB by upping slightly the Sat, still not full convinced the step from 3 to 4 in PS, especially the conversion side. At A3, the print certainly 'pops' in more ways than one, LOL.

Thanks to everyone for commenting. :wavey:

Steve
Posted by John MacTavish on April 7, 2010 at 2:21 PM
Love quirky, humorous shots like this.
They open up so many different avenues for final use.

As an aside

Why up the saturation with files from the mk3?
To me they are about as faithful to what real life colours can be w/o any sat adjustment, if anything the reds always tend to look like they need less saturation rather than more.
Posted by Stephen Kaluski on April 7, 2010 at 2:37 PM
Hi John, totally agree about the MKIII, it does tend to give fairly faithful 'colour' images and very rarely do I need to do anything in relation to the Saturation. Think we must be the few, LOL.

I was referring to the conversion from RGB to sRGB as the working space is different. In PS3 there is a definite colour shift, however in PS4 it's more 'faithful' but occasionally one needs to tweak it to get it back to the original file.

Saying all that, as images are viewed on so many different monitors does it really matter as you & I may have calibrated monitors, but what we see could be totally different albeit ever so slightly. :smile: However I do not want to open that 'old chestnut' that has been around on this Forum and others for more years than you & I. :biggrin:

Steve :wavey:
Posted by John Chapman on April 7, 2010 at 2:40 PM
Hi Steve, this is a great shot. :toast:
Posted by Maggie Campbell on April 7, 2010 at 4:29 PM
Comical shot Steve. Like it a lot. :wavey:
Posted by Bob Cox on April 12, 2010 at 6:13 AM
Nice picture but a little to close to what I see in the mirror each morning !.

Bob.