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Pheasant

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Posted by Andy Shepherd on March 22, 2012 at 4:06 PM
Pheasant

One from a recent trip to the moors, Pheasant calling.

1/2500th @ f8 -1 1/3rd iso500 ( 90% of FF )

Please view the large version

Thanks for the feedback on my last post and thanks for looking.

There are a few more shots on the blog for those interested.

Andy... :wavey:
Posted by Nick Mckeown on March 22, 2012 at 4:18 PM
Great head detail Andy and a bit different from the usual red grouse shot from the moors. Didn't think they lived in that habitat.

Nick. :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :wavey:
Posted by Rene de Heer on March 22, 2012 at 4:36 PM
Very nice, love the colourful head
Rene de Heer
Posted by Phillip Tomkinson on March 22, 2012 at 4:43 PM
Very nice image Andy I got some images of them today, and was going to post one but you beat me to it.

Phil.

:toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :wavey:
Posted by Barry Southon on March 22, 2012 at 8:15 PM
Andy

Very nice indeed.
:wink:
Posted by Matt Cole on March 23, 2012 at 4:36 AM
very nice Andy, works well. Details, colours and comp are spot on.

Matt :toast:
Posted by David Sewell on March 23, 2012 at 7:27 AM
The white looks a bit bright on my screen, is it possible to tone it down just a bit? Other than that a great image, very different to the usual pheasant shot.

David
Posted by Sandra Hendrikse on March 23, 2012 at 8:10 AM
Wonderful shot. I love it. Well composed, great detaill and very colourful. :smile:
Posted by Robert Lawrence on March 23, 2012 at 10:15 AM
A belter. Great composition and use of differential focus. Muted back and fore ground colours really highlight the bird. Excellent. :toast:
Posted by Guy Rogers on March 23, 2012 at 2:51 PM
Hello Andy.

Very nice and love the POV.

:wavey: :wavey: :wavey:
Posted by Andy Shepherd on March 23, 2012 at 3:04 PM

Thanks for the feedback, appreciated as always :toast:

Andy... :smile:
Posted by Oscar Dewhurst on March 23, 2012 at 3:07 PM
Super shot Andy, some very nice ones on your blog as well :toast: :toast:

Oscar :wavey:
Posted by Stephen Kaluski on March 23, 2012 at 4:03 PM
Hi Andy, a little late to the party, but hopefully not too late. :wink:

The BKG works well and is a nice compliment to the vibrant Pheasant, with a good, low perspective. These birds are always tricky in bright light, especially with the whites, hence I guess you were -1.33 comp. I think you might have got away with slightly less based on the Levels histogram, as the blacks look slightly clipped, so perhaps you could have retrieved some of the whites in the PP stage? If you use PS (or whatever you use for your image extraction) then perhaps export the image where some of the darker areas are opened up to let more detail come through and use that as a layer on your main file with a mask?

In addition I notice the file is a RGB file rather than an sRGB file, you might like to check for the future to ensure your images are display at there best. :wink:

Hope this helps.

All the best.

TFS
Steve :wavey:
Posted by Andy Shepherd on March 23, 2012 at 5:26 PM

Thanks Oscar, pleased you like the shots on the blog :smile:

Hi Steve, thanks for the advice re the processing, it's appreciated and god knows I need it. As for the colour space, I've just checked the 720px and 1024px files and both are showing the source space as sRGB. I know I converted both files to sRGB before saving so not sure why they are coming up as RGB.

Andy... :smile:
Posted by Stephen Kaluski on March 23, 2012 at 6:01 PM
Hi Andy if I can help, drop me a line.

This is a screen grab of the file highlighted in PS hence my note, bizarre. :wink:

Steve
Posted by keith mitchell on March 24, 2012 at 3:04 PM
Andy you might have lost a tiny bit of detail in the white neck ring ,but all in all its really good i do like that bg.

Keith. :smile: