Thanks for noticing the detail in the white feathers:-). Seriously, I took particular care in the conversion to bring that out, pulling down the white point and boosting the midrange. On my first go I did a bit of burning in as well, but I didn't like the result and scrapped it. White is always a lot of work. Paul On Aug 31, 2008, at 8:00 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote:
> Paul, > Love the detail in the white feathers. > Regards, Bob S. > > On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Paul Stenquist > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I would guess this is a Great Egret, but I'm no expert. In any case, >> I spotted him perched in a tree next the trickle of the Rouge River >> that spills over the dam of one of the lakes in Bloomfield Hills, >> Michigan. A heron was standing near him in the water. But I was on my >> way to the bank and didn't have a camera. Gee, I ought to go home for >> the camera, I thought. But no. Figured they'e both be gone. Finished >> some of my estate executort business at the bank and realized I was >> missing one of the four checkbooks I needed. So I drove back home for >> the checkbook. The heron was gone, but the egret was still there. So >> I picked up the K20D, A 400/5.6, 540 flash and Xtender along with the >> checkbook. On my way back, much to my surprise, the egret was still >> sitting on the same branch where I had first spied him. So I parked >> the car, crept up to within about 50 feet and clicked off a few >> shots. Not great light, but I worked on it a bit in conversion. And >> here it is. >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7768636. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >> and follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
