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Hare.

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Posted by keith mitchell on August 23, 2012 at 3:12 PM
Hare.
Nikon D7000.
Nikon 300ml 2.8
1/80@f5.6
iso500.

Another Hare from my favourite field,had some very good tips from Steve that i am still working on to try to improve my photoshop skills.
Thanks for looking and your comments on my last post.
Posted by Stephen Kaluski on August 24, 2012 at 3:06 AM
Hi Keith, you certainly are lucky with your Hares.

You need to run some NR on the BKG. The detail, sharpness & clarity on the subject is better, but you do have some colour cast creeping in, plus, it still has an untagged profile (not sRGB) :wink:. A 3x2 landscape crop also works as another option. You are certainly moving in the right direction.

TFS
Steve
Posted by Neil Burton on August 24, 2012 at 4:44 AM
I often find it a fine balance between sharpening subject and NRing the background. Over doing it can look really odd and if you do NR you will need to make sure the long in focus grass is not hit, one hell of a mask. In this case I would be tempted to leave the BG and just sharpen the hare and corresponding grass. Maybe warm it a touch too ;) Nice close shot though.
Posted by Phil Ellard on August 24, 2012 at 6:14 AM
Lovely shot, great composition and subject. Some good ideas on how to really polish it too :wavey: :toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by keith mitchell on August 24, 2012 at 1:55 PM
Thanks for this,Steve i take your point about colour cast and will try to use your system on my next post,don't know about the luck with these animals i have spent a lot of effort getting them,taking in wind direction and the placing of my hide ect.
Neil i have not applied any sharping to this image coulld the noise be down to low light and the iso at 500 on mt 7000?
Thanks Keith. :smile:
Posted by Barry Southon on August 25, 2012 at 11:49 AM
Keith

A very nice image thanks for sharing the advice and points raised help us all.

:wink:
Posted by Nick Mckeown on August 25, 2012 at 5:38 PM
Great image Keith. Shouldn't get too much noise at ISO 500 with the D7000 unless its to do with web compression.

Nick. :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :smile: :wavey:
Posted by Andy Shepherd on August 26, 2012 at 10:27 AM

Another good looking Hare image, Keith :toast:

Andy... :smile:
Posted by Phil Ellard on August 26, 2012 at 11:23 AM
Hi Keith i do think that is normal background noise my d300 does similar things on some shots at iso 500 and on every shot i process unless iso 200 i NR background. The trick is to NR the background and then sharpen only where's critical :toast: :toast:
Posted by keith mitchell on August 27, 2012 at 3:20 AM
Thanks Phil i think i must gey myself some neat image.

Keith.
Posted by Phil Ellard on August 27, 2012 at 4:12 AM
I have not used neat image but have heard it is very good :wavey: