More birds from me!! 56k no!

Richard T · 19 Feb 2006 at 20:57

ok tried it on the first 4 and 1 2 and 3 it did make a difference but on 4 the background came out a funny colour and did not look right

Have checked out your site by the way especially the tips page

Good stuff

TRiP · 19 Feb 2006 at 21:43

not amazed by the first few, but its ahrd to impress me with bird headshots.

the flight shots are brilliant though. you managed to keep the bird really sharp which is difficult to do. nice work

scoop · 20 Feb 2006 at 08:54

Any ideas what the first bird is??

Looks like a Canada Goose to me......

Samurai303 · 20 Feb 2006 at 09:58

scoop said:
Looks like a Canada Goose to me......

And looks like a Barnacle Goose to me......

dod · 20 Feb 2006 at 09:59

good shots of the birds in flight, that's really difficult

Richard T · 20 Feb 2006 at 10:35

dod said:
good shots of the birds in flight, that's really difficult

thanks... It was my first time in trying to get shots like this. I took loads, most of em were carp tho'

thats the beauty of digital.... you can just keep shooting away!!

scoop · 20 Feb 2006 at 11:21

Samurai303 said:
And looks like a Barnacle Goose to me......

Aye, on reflection, I'll conceed as I think you're right!

cyKey · 20 Feb 2006 at 12:11

I hope you don't mind but I had a quick play with one of the shots. While they're nice and sharp shots, I'm guessing it was overcast that day leaving flat tones and colours.

What I did was this.

1. New Adjustment Layer, Levels, click OK
2. Left slider to the end of the histogram, right to the beginning of it
3. Selected background layer.
4. Dodge tool set to highlights 14%. Just ran it over the shadowed areas to bring them out a touch.
5. Cropped to focus more on the bird and remove the empty space that didn't feel like it added to the shot.

Richard T · 20 Feb 2006 at 13:05

cyKey said:
I hope you don't mind but I had a quick play with one of the shots. While they're nice and sharp shots, I'm guessing it was overcast that day leaving flat tones and colours.

What I did was this.

1. New Adjustment Layer, Levels, click OK
2. Left slider to the end of the histogram, right to the beginning of it
3. Selected background layer.
4. Dodge tool set to highlights 14%. Just ran it over the shadowed areas to bring them out a touch.
5. Cropped to focus more on the bird and remove the empty space that didn't feel like it added to the shot.

Thanks for that Cykey. It does look a lot better

Yep was manky and dull. Its has been like that the 3 times I've been over there.
Roll on the spring/summer!

ethan · 20 Feb 2006 at 16:02

very much like the cat lol