this morning

Here's what I did this morning.
As usua, all comments are welcome.


https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97242118/20131222_Sanibel%20birds_0118.jpg

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PeterN

On 12/22/2013 1:05 PM, Tony Cooper wrote:
On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 12:44:36 -0500, PeterN
wrote:

Here's what I did this morning.
As usua, all comments are welcome.


https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97242118/20131222_Sanibel%20birds_0118.jpg

Excellent shot, Peter. All the better for not being over-done in
post.


thanks.
(note the ISO, and focal length. It was hand held)

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PeterN

On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 12:44:36 -0500, PeterN
wrote:

Here's what I did this morning.
As usua, all comments are welcome.


https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97242118/20131222_Sanibel%20birds_0118.jpg

Is it art?

I don't know, but it's a wonderful photograph of a pelican as it makes
it's first contact withthe water. The contrast between the dark water
and background, and the pelican help make this photograph stand out.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

On 12/22/2013 4:00 PM, Eric Stevens wrote:
On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 12:44:36 -0500, PeterN
wrote:

Here's what I did this morning.
As usua, all comments are welcome.


https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97242118/20131222_Sanibel%20birds_0118.jpg

Is it art?

I don't know, but it's a wonderful photograph of a pelican as it makes
it's first contact withthe water. The contrast between the dark water
and background, and the pelican help make this photograph stand out.


Thanks.


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PeterN

On 2013-12-23 00:31:06 +0000, "MC" said:

PeterN wrote:

On 12/22/2013 1:05 PM, Tony Cooper wrote:
On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 12:44:36 -0500, PeterN
wrote:

Here's what I did this morning.
As usua, all comments are welcome.



https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97242118/20131222_Sanibel%20birds_0118.jpg

Excellent

shot, Peter. All the better for not being over-done in
post.


thanks.
(note the ISO, and focal length. It was hand held)

It is very noisy. Hmmm...is it cropped? Maybe you should have shot at
1/1000s and set ISO at 1600.

MC

It is a great capture, and with the D800 @ ISO 3200 is probably OK
given the other exposure data. whay might not be zok, is the crop and
high JPEG compression (94%)which is likely to leave artifacts.

I am not going to allege a heavy hand in the area of sharpening this
time around, but this is certainly a RAW file I would find interesting
to try my hand with. ( that is if you are up to that Peter).


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Regards,

Savageduck

On 2013-12-23 00:42:46 +0000, Savageduck said:

On 2013-12-23 00:31:06 +0000, "MC" said:

PeterN wrote:

On 12/22/2013 1:05 PM, Tony Cooper wrote:
On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 12:44:36 -0500, PeterN
wrote:

Here's what I did this morning.
As usua, all comments are welcome.



https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97242118/20131222_Sanibel%20birds_0118.jpg

Excellent

shot,

Peter. All the better for not being over-done in
post.


thanks.
(note the ISO, and focal length. It was hand held)

It is very noisy. Hmmm...is it cropped? Maybe you should have shot at
1/1000s and set ISO at 1600.

MC

It is a great capture, and with the D800 @ ISO 3200 is probably OK
given the other exposure data. whay might not be zok, is the crop and
high JPEG compression (94%)which is likely to leave artifacts.
"Whay" & "zok" !!!??
What you should be seeing are "What" & "OK". More phingrr phawlts. ;-)

I am not going to allege a heavy hand in the area of sharpening this
time around, but this is certainly a RAW file I would find interesting
to try my hand with. ( that is if you are up to that Peter).


--
Regards,

Savageduck

On 12/22/2013 7:31 PM, MC wrote:
PeterN wrote:

On 12/22/2013 1:05 PM, Tony Cooper wrote:
On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 12:44:36 -0500, PeterN
wrote:

Here's what I did this morning.
As usua, all comments are welcome.



https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97242118/20131222_Sanibel%20birds_0118.jpg

Excellent shot, Peter. All the better for not being over-done in
post.


thanks.
(note the ISO, and focal length. It was hand held)

It is very noisy. Hmmm...is it cropped? Maybe you should have shot at
1/1000s and set ISO at 1600.

MC


It is cropped, but not severely. When hand holding at 550mm, I will take
speed over noise any day.
Now look at the image again. Is it still noisy? Since I am using my
laptop, which has only a 14" screen, i tend to ignore noise and only
make rough edits.



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PeterN

On 12/22/2013 7:42 PM, Savageduck wrote:
On 2013-12-23 00:31:06 +0000, "MC" said:

PeterN wrote:

On 12/22/2013 1:05 PM, Tony Cooper wrote:
On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 12:44:36 -0500, PeterN
wrote:

Here's what I did this morning.
As usua, all comments are welcome.



https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97242118/20131222_Sanibel%20birds_0118.jpg


Excellent

shot, Peter. All the better for not being over-done in
post.


thanks.
(note the ISO, and focal length. It was hand held)

It is very noisy. Hmmm...is it cropped? Maybe you should have shot at
1/1000s and set ISO at 1600.

MC

It is a great capture, and with the D800 @ ISO 3200 is probably OK given
the other exposure data. whay might not be zok, is the crop and high
JPEG compression (94%)which is likely to leave artifacts.

I am not going to allege a heavy hand in the area of sharpening this
time around, but this is certainly a RAW file I would find interesting
to try my hand with. ( that is if you are up to that Peter).



Here ya go

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97242118/20131222_Sanibel%20birds_0118.NEF

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PeterN

On 2013-12-23 01:59:02 +0000, PeterN said:

On 12/22/2013 7:42 PM, Savageduck wrote:
On 2013-12-23 00:31:06 +0000, "MC" said:

PeterN wrote:

On 12/22/2013 1:05 PM, Tony Cooper wrote:
On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 12:44:36 -0500, PeterN
wrote:

Here's what I did this morning.
As usua, all comments are welcome.



https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97242118/20131222_Sanibel%20birds_0118.jpg


Excellent

shot,

Peter. All the better for not being over-done in
post.


thanks.
(note the ISO, and focal length. It was hand held)

It is very noisy. Hmmm...is it cropped? Maybe you should have shot at
1/1000s and set ISO at 1600.

MC

It is a great capture, and with the D800 @ ISO 3200 is probably OK given
the other exposure data. whay might not be zok, is the crop and high
JPEG compression (94%)which is likely to leave artifacts.

I am not going to allege a heavy hand in the area of sharpening this
time around, but this is certainly a RAW file I would find interesting
to try my hand with. ( that is if you are up to that Peter).



Here ya go

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97242118/20131222_Sanibel%20birds_0118.NEF

Thanks!

Results to follow soon.

--
Regards,

Savageduck

On 2013-12-23 01:59:02 +0000, PeterN said:

On 12/22/2013 7:42 PM, Savageduck wrote:
On 2013-12-23 00:31:06 +0000, "MC" said:

PeterN wrote:

On 12/22/2013 1:05 PM, Tony Cooper wrote:
On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 12:44:36 -0500, PeterN
wrote:

Here's what I did this morning.
As usua, all comments are welcome.



https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97242118/20131222_Sanibel%20birds_0118.jpg


Excellent

shot,

Peter. All the better for not being over-done in
post.


thanks.
(note the ISO, and focal length. It was hand held)

It is very noisy. Hmmm...is it cropped? Maybe you should have shot at
1/1000s and set ISO at 1600.

MC

It is a great capture, and with the D800 @ ISO 3200 is probably OK given
the other exposure data. whay might not be zok, is the crop and high
JPEG compression (94%)which is likely to leave artifacts.

I am not going to allege a heavy hand in the area of sharpening this
time around, but this is certainly a RAW file I would find interesting
to try my hand with. ( that is if you are up to that Peter).



Here ya go

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97242118/20131222_Sanibel%20birds_0118.NEF

OK!
First

some comments:

The starting point for that RAW, as I am sure you are aware, was very
under exposed. At f/14 I believe you have stopped down too much. I see
you must have been using the 1.4 converter on your 80-400mm and that
would have also exacerbated the exposure problem.
I would have liked to have seen f/6.3-f/8, or just the straight
80-400mm without the converter.
Because of the underexposed starting point there is a fair amount of
luminosity noise, lifting the shadows to bring out more detail on the
bird makes that all the more obvious.
There is also a greenish color cast which needs fixing.

So on to my fix. Starting in ACR I made most of the major exposure
adjustments and a slight luminosity NR adjustment(I left the major NR
for NIK Define).
Into PS I cropped then applied a general NIK Define NR profile and then
used the brush to selectively fix some of the areas with stronger noise.

Next I used NIK Color Efex Pro4 and made some adjustments using the Pro
Contrast adjustment.

....and the to Viveza on a couple of selective layers to deal with
color, exposure and contrast tweaks.

I have a few other ideas which might give me a better result, but for
now here is version #1.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1295663/Fil...birds_0118.jpg


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Regards,

Savageduck