Hi All.
This picture was taken recently. The birds were flying into the Rowan tree and catching beasties. I had a problem with the cropping so I decided to take off a little from both sides. I don’t know if it works would appreciate your comments.
Specs. Canon 1D MK 11n 300mm F2.8 Lens 2x conv. ISO 400 1/1250 F7.1
-1.0 EV. Taken from car window on Bean Bag.
John
Aberdeen.
Looks good to me, crop looks fine too, only minor nit is the brighter top left hand side of the bg, might be nice to tone that down as it has a tendancy to draw ones eyes, you seem to have picked up a few artifacts along the way...
Posted by John Chapman on May 26, 2006 at 10:53 AM
Hi Guys
thanks for your critique. It is not a cut and paste but sloppy workmanship in PS. I am still learning but will have to put in a bigger effort in PS. Does anybody know the number of the brush for Cloning grain in CS2?
John
Aberdeen
I can see banding in lower lighter tones on my laptop display - has the file been converted to sRGB (cannot check on my laptop), or is it jpeg compression.
Looks like a dose of noise reduction required in dark/mid grey tones a fair bit of chroma noise giving the speckly effect, alternatively try using 5% guassian blur - create new duplicate layer, select grey colour (set selection range about 20 to create a selection), invert the selection, delete everything in the inverted selection on layer and then apply the 5% Gaussian blur, adjust as an ovelay style and reduce fill ratio until just smoothes out and covers offending area - finally merge the layers - or repaeat on a finer colour selection criteria
When cloning I use soft brush of whatever size is needed to quickly cover the offending area and about 50% hardness setting with several passes and constantly resample to fade in, works for me, others will have different techniques
A very well captured shot and I like the square format crop, I am a fan of square formats for the right composition and this is spot on. Minor niggles are the bright area top left as already mentioned and maybe not quite as sharp as you would like but good enough for such a dynamic and unusual behavioural image.
Hi John
Well captured and having the Rowan in shot adds to it. I found flight photography very addictive though - so you will no doubt be looking for more.
Cheers Simon
Discussion
11 repliesThis picture was taken recently. The birds were flying into the Rowan tree and catching beasties. I had a problem with the cropping so I decided to take off a little from both sides. I don’t know if it works would appreciate your comments.
Specs. Canon 1D MK 11n 300mm F2.8 Lens 2x conv. ISO 400 1/1250 F7.1
-1.0 EV. Taken from car window on Bean Bag.
John
Aberdeen.
I agree with Phil's comments. Fine image. Noise and artifacts do let it down a little though.
Paul
NL/Rotterdam
I agree with Phil's comments, but well caught, it makes an interesting image.
Best wishes
Phil
Regards
thanks for your critique. It is not a cut and paste but sloppy workmanship in PS. I am still learning but will have to put in a bigger effort in PS. Does anybody know the number of the brush for Cloning grain in CS2?
John
Aberdeen
Looks like a dose of noise reduction required in dark/mid grey tones a fair bit of chroma noise giving the speckly effect, alternatively try using 5% guassian blur - create new duplicate layer, select grey colour (set selection range about 20 to create a selection), invert the selection, delete everything in the inverted selection on layer and then apply the 5% Gaussian blur, adjust as an ovelay style and reduce fill ratio until just smoothes out and covers offending area - finally merge the layers - or repaeat on a finer colour selection criteria
When cloning I use soft brush of whatever size is needed to quickly cover the offending area and about 50% hardness setting with several passes and constantly resample to fade in, works for me, others will have different techniques
Mike
I think you have done really well to capture this behaviour!
David
A very well captured shot and I like the square format crop, I am a fan of square formats for the right composition and this is spot on. Minor niggles are the bright area top left as already mentioned and maybe not quite as sharp as you would like but good enough for such a dynamic and unusual behavioural image.
cheers
Sean
Well captured and having the Rowan in shot adds to it. I found flight photography very addictive though - so you will no doubt be looking for more.
Cheers Simon
thanks for your constructive comments and advice. This is a great Website for Wildlife.
John
Aberdeen