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SilverPenguin

SilverPenguin

SilverPenguin

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Lovely snow fall today, although I didn't have a chance to get out and make full use of it. Still, I managed a few shots of the robin that visits my garden. Both taken from my living room and shot through double glazing!

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Shame his feet are buried in the snow!

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This one I'm not a huge fan of the dark OOF line in the background however it does serve a purpose as it highlights the snow on the beak better than a plain white background would have.

Both shot at f5 so limited DOF but I had to try and keep the shutter speed up as he was moving pretty quick and never staying still for long. Both shot around 300mm and 1/125.

Also popped to the park late afternoon to get some pics of my sisters dogs & kids. Nothing special here, just typical 'awww look at the cute dogs in the snow' type stuff lol

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And finally my sisters little boy, started to get sleet coming down at this point which gave a nice streaking effect in the background. He doesn't normally pose so I was lucky to get a shot off!

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Not as productive a day as I would have liked but nice to see some snow at any rate.
 
SilverPenguin said:
Also popped to the park late afternoon to get some pics of my sisters dogs & kids. Nothing special here, just typical 'awww look at the cute dogs in the snow' type stuff lol

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I disagree. The first shot of the dog is great! It's perfectly timed and if it were a tad sharper I think it would be perfect. :)
 
SilverPenguin said:
Lovely snow fall today, although I didn't have a chance to get out and make full use of it. Still, I managed a few shots of the robin that visits my garden. Both taken from my living room and shot through double glazing!

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Not as productive a day as I would have liked but nice to see some snow at any rate.
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Just had a look at your site, love the pics. What gallery you using btw?

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Thanks all :)

The first dog photo (his name is Ralph btw) is not as sharp as I'd like either as he was running and I was panning at 400mm and my panning technique isn't the best. I think the main culprit of softenss is his head sticks forward out of the the DOF the apperture was giving me. You can get away with it at web size but I'm not sure how big it could go before the siftness will become an issue :(

The gallery on my site is a modified version of some flash gallery software I purchased off the net :)
 
Very minimal but my typcial workflow is:

1) As soon as the image is opened use the shadow/highlight tool to see if it can get me more detail. Not all images need it however, although sometimes I find I can get the image looking right using this alone and then I don't bother with levels etc

2) Once Ihave tweaked the S/H I then do a levels adjustment or a curves adjustment if needed. Usually not by very much - just enough to get some subtle contrast.

3) Add saturation, only between 6-8 usually.

4) Save as a TIFF so I don't have to mess about with it ever again. I save all my real keepers (ones that are definately worth printing) as UNSHARPEND TIFF's. This means when it comes time to print etc I can sharpen it at that stage depending on the print size etc.

5) Re-size for web.

6) USM of around 300, 0.2, 0 then go to EDIT: Fade USM, then select Luminosity (spelling?)

7) Save for web.

So thats my 7 steps to preparing an image. Only takes a few minutes tops if the image is good to start with. Like I said if I have to do much more than the first 3 steps to get the image looking good I usually think twice about just how decent the capture was to start with.
 
Oh I forgot to mention. I do all my adjustments as adjustment layers, that way you can take away anything you have done or tweak it further to compliment other changes you do. e.g. If you do a levels adjustment straight on the image its destructive, if you do it in an adjustment layer its none destructive. Just flatten the image down once you have it how you want it :)
 
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