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Gannet + question

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Posted by Andy Shepherd on April 15, 2010 at 11:40 AM
Gannet + question
Gannet - On this one, the sun came out at just the right time, this gave the underwings a beautiful sheen, thanks for looking.

Processed in DPP / CS2

1D3, 500F4IS+1.4T/c, Gitzo, Wimberley
1/3200th @ f5.6 +1/3rd iso800

All comments most welcome

Andy...
Posted by David Taylor on April 15, 2010 at 12:00 PM
Superb, the subject stands out beautifully against the excellent BG, the diagonal spread of the wings divides it very nicely indeed.

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Posted by Stephen Kaluski on April 15, 2010 at 12:07 PM
Clean & simple Andy, that's what makes a good image.

Perhaps a small tweak in selective colour might just work on the wings?

TFS
Steve :wavey:
Posted by Andy Gregory on April 15, 2010 at 12:34 PM
Excellent shot andy :toast:
Posted by Karen Summers on April 15, 2010 at 12:34 PM
love this one Andy I am off on Saturday to try for some of these
Posted by Mark Davies on April 15, 2010 at 1:17 PM
Nice one Andy works well .The underside of the bird although not clipped may have been better if you had applied an sRGB profile before posting . There are areas of white which are hanging in there just .
Posted by Dave Courtenay on April 15, 2010 at 1:37 PM
Great under wing detail-good image

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Posted by Stephen Kaluski on April 15, 2010 at 2:23 PM
'you had applied an sRGB profile before posting'

That might explain Mark why it looked a bit 'washed out' in PS when i view it, didn't check that.

Steve
Posted by Craig Jones on April 15, 2010 at 2:26 PM
Beautiful composition and pose caught there,love it :wink: :wink: :wavey:
Posted by John Robinson on April 15, 2010 at 2:58 PM
Good one.
JR
Posted by Andy Shepherd on April 15, 2010 at 3:07 PM
Thanks for the comments guys :smile:

A question for Mark,Steve or anyone else who can help re the processing.

I always convert my RAW files in DPP and save as a 16bit TIFF with an Adobe RGB profile, I then convert the profile to sRGB in CS2 for web posting. Just so I'm clear on this, does this image still carry the Adobe RGB profile?

Because today I've a noticed a strange occurrence with CS2, once I've opened the Adobe RGB TIFF the source profile is showing sRGB before I've even converted it to sRGB, surely the source profile should be Adobe RGB?

Hope this makes sense and any feedback on this would be very much appreciated.

Andy...
Posted by Stephen Kaluski on April 15, 2010 at 4:19 PM
Have sent a PM.

Steve
Posted by Lee Newman on April 15, 2010 at 5:10 PM
Excellent Gannet image Andy,

Lee
Posted by David Kjaer on April 16, 2010 at 8:10 AM
Nicely composed image in beautiful light!

David :toast: :toast:
Posted by Andy Shepherd on April 16, 2010 at 2:14 PM

Thanks for the comments guys :toast:

Andy...
Posted by Phillip Tomkinson on April 17, 2010 at 2:25 PM
Hi it depends on whether you have told CS2 to use the imbedded profile or the working profile by default, personally myself I never convert any of mine as I use a colour aware Web browser.

Phil.

Ps a nice looking image.

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