I know that feeling Stan. Last weekend I was hanging out by a new favorite spot and that is on the Richland Creek Greenway when I spot three ducks on the creek. They were not very close and where they were located was a lot of dark shadows. I only had one capture to turn out half way good but they had their tail feathers turned toward me as they were swimming down the creek. All the other captures I took were blurry.
Perhaps someone that is way better with Photoshop than I am can bring out better details of your photos. Jeffery -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stan Halpin Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 8:18 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: GESO:Another bird (feeding) > Stan Halpin > Subject: GESO:Another bird (feeding) > > . . . I captured this sequence as one caught and ate a good sized fish . . . > http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p687482279 > I recommend a slide-show viewing if you have decent band-width. On Apr 22, 2011, at 8:55 PM, Jeffery Johnson wrote: > Stan these are nice but I did have a hard time making out the bird and > what it has in its mouth because the bird and fish both have very similar colors. > Not sure really if there was or if there is any way of editing it so > one can tell the difference a bit better. If there is, I have not found it. The strong backlight didn't help. I did have exposure comp set (at +1.0, not enough). I have played with exposure, fill light, contrast, sharpening, etc. All within Lightroom. If one were an expert in Photoshop technique, which I am most definitely not, I suspect it might be possible with layers to isolate the bird + fish and do some more to bring them out which might enhance the clarity. If anyone wants to try with one or more of these files, I would be happy to send the original DNG . . . I could crop more tightly; at 1-to-1 or beyond it is easier to make out the details of what is going on. My goal here was to try and balance two priorities. One the one hand, I wanted to show an interesting "interaction" between bird and fish. It was interesting to watch, 'twas an unusual sight for me, and I wanted to share the record of that. On the other hand, I was trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, photographically speaking. The backlighting, the sometimes slightly-off focus, narrow depth of field, distance from the subject, etc. all conspire to make these shots just barely above the minimal "keeper" level of quality. In fact, if it weren't for the fish, I wouldn't have given most of these a second look. So, I am trying to make them appear as good as I can, and tell the story as well. Cropping more tightly possibly tells the story a bit better but exposes more of the flaws in the images . . . stan -- 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.
