Thanks Igor, The clarity and crispness are as recorded by the camera. I added a wee bit of overall sharpening to the Cardinal pic but none to the Grackle. I generally just correct exposure, usually pulling down highlights and pushing shadows a bit when converting from RAW in PhotoShop. I sometimes add a tiny bit of overall sharpness, unrecognizable without pixel peeping, but refrain from even that when working with dark subjects like the grackle or when shooting in dim light, so as not to emphasize any noise. I do some dodging and burning as necessary. On the Cardinal pic, I burned in some slightly overexposed areas on the breast and dodged a bit of the underside which is in shadow.
> On Sep 14, 2020, at 1:21 PM, Igor PDML-StR <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Wow! > Stunning images! > > You must have a great camera! :-) > (Just kidding. Referring to a frequent response from some random people.) > > On a serious note, - if you don't mind, I am curious: For this type of > images, how much of the clarity & crispness comes straight from the camera > (with the particular lens/lens combination) and how much is revealed > ("pulled" [albeit not in the film-era terms]) in the post-processing? > > Thank you in advance, > > Igor > > > > Paul Stenquist Mon, 14 Sep 2020 07:34:18 -0700 wrote: > > My favorites from Saturday’s backyard birding: A Grackle posing as Poe would > have it and a juvenile male cardinal. > > > https://www.photo.net/photo/18621833/Nevermore > > https://www.photo.net/photo/18621832/Juvenile-Male-Cardinal > > Both with the K-1, D FA 150-450 and DA 1.4X Converter, 630 mm, f8 @ 1/640th. > Off a tripod. > > -- > 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.
