I've just joined the forum and have enjoyed the images (especially the Pygmy owls).
I'm located in Mid-Suffolk and am using a Canon 350D with 400 L F5.6 with/without a Kenko pro300 1.4 TC.
The following image is from January this year. ISO800 I'm afraid.
Posted by Colin Pickett on March 13, 2006 at 5:07 PM
Hi Antony
I like your first post, a fantastic sight to see and capture the vole really adds, it could probably use a little more sharpening and maybe up the saturation, it might help to make it pop.
Hope you don't mind, but I think there is a lot more to come out of this image - here is a slight revamp adjusting the curves to increase contrast, a slight colour desaturation to cool down the contrast ramping of colour increase and tweak to black and near white point colour balance - your original has a slight red cast
Welcome and a nice first post to open with, Mikes repost shows that you can drag a touch more out of this fine image...
BTW... if you fade Curves to Luminosity, or work with a curves adjustment layer set to a blend mode of luminosity there will be no colour or saturation shift....
Hi Antony, welcome to the forum. It's a stunning action shot you have managed here. Techs have been covered above, but I must say your photo is also showing some unique behavior. Mostly (if not allways) when I have seen Owls fly with prey, they have been using their talons to carry the prey. Maybe Barn Owls are different ?
Thanks for the replies. I'm always interested (as are most of us I guess) in ways of improving post pro'.
The original RAW file was underexposed (I was watching another Barn owl when the vole transporter - it's mate - appeared from nowhere and flew straight past my blind I'd set up). It has been de-noised in Neat Image but the underexposure is doing me no favours here.
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10 repliesI've just joined the forum and have enjoyed the images (especially the Pygmy owls).
I'm located in Mid-Suffolk and am using a Canon 350D with 400 L F5.6 with/without a Kenko pro300 1.4 TC.
The following image is from January this year. ISO800 I'm afraid.
I like your first post, a fantastic sight to see and capture the vole really adds, it could probably use a little more sharpening and maybe up the saturation, it might help to make it pop.
Regards
Welcome to the forum
Hope you don't mind, but I think there is a lot more to come out of this image - here is a slight revamp adjusting the curves to increase contrast, a slight colour desaturation to cool down the contrast ramping of colour increase and tweak to black and near white point colour balance - your original has a slight red cast
Oh yes and an excellent shot to boot!
Mike
welcome antony, i'll look forward to plenty more shots like this. good one.
BTW... if you fade Curves to Luminosity, or work with a curves adjustment layer set to a blend mode of luminosity there will be no colour or saturation shift....
Welcome to the forum. I like your first post, and advice from the guys certainly helps it along a bit.
Best wishes
Phil
Welcome to the forum - a unique shot - keep them coming!
David
Thanks for the replies. I'm always interested (as are most of us I guess) in ways of improving post pro'.
The original RAW file was underexposed (I was watching another Barn owl when the vole transporter - it's mate - appeared from nowhere and flew straight past my blind I'd set up). It has been de-noised in Neat Image but the underexposure is doing me no favours here.
Thanks all
Great first post and welcome to the forum.
It just shows what a wealth of knowledge we have here on the forum and the help we can get when we need it.
Regards
Rob
PS You have no email details could you PM me with contact details please as I want to ask you something!