Near the Yukon II

Gallery: AvianPosted February 26, 2010105 views12 comments

This is the second -perhaps last - of a series on this Hawk.
Most said that they wished for more of a head turn. I actually got about twenty of this guy from looking right to straight on to looking almost compleatly left and behind. It was a lot of fun. I hope you enjoy it too!

Dan

Comments

12 comments

Comment posted by Dan Moore on February 26, 2010 at 4:28 PM

Rich,
I am doing something wrong - they are not as good as they looked on my screen prior to posting.

Registered on February 11, 2010, 143 Posts, 1248 Comments

Comment posted by Clayton Musgrove on February 26, 2010 at 5:36 PM

Dan.
It looks terrific to me. Great portrait. I have had the same issue with how mine look. I posted some of them on another forum and I thought they looked better.
Clayton

Registered on February 6, 2010, 55 Posts, 235 Comments

Comment posted by Brian Gatlin on February 26, 2010 at 6:36 PM

beautiful shot, Dan--a very close portrait with nice light and details. I like this one a lot better than the first--better head turn and more importantly, much better light on the head. If this was mine I might try just a bit more sharpening on the face and I might drop the brightness down just a hair, but I would have to see what it looked like. This is really nice!

Registered on March 21, 2009, 202 Posts, 4187 Comments

Comment posted by István Molnár on February 26, 2010 at 8:00 PM

Nice work.
István

Registered on January 7, 2010, 114 Posts, 704 Comments

Comment posted by Luke Ormand on February 26, 2010 at 8:37 PM

Awesome shot - can't get any closer than this (safely anyway!)

Registered on February 4, 2009, 1093 Posts, 7035 Comments

Comment posted by Cheryl Molennor on February 26, 2010 at 10:24 PM

It's a beautiful portrait with great detail

Registered on June 30, 2009, 300 Posts, 5051 Comments

Comment posted by Catherine Reilly on February 27, 2010 at 2:57 AM

What a magnificent portrait! Great bokeh. Oh, my! the detail in the bird is just crazy!

Registered on August 16, 2006, 603 Posts, 9192 Comments

Comment posted by Monica Siri on February 27, 2010 at 1:07 PM

Dan,
superb image!

Registered on September 20, 2009, 132 Posts, 3764 Comments

Comment posted by Mia McPherson on February 27, 2010 at 2:22 PM

Dan,

I like this pose/head turn much better than your previous post.

I am doing something wrong - they are not as good as they looked on my screen prior to posting.

Regarding this looking different on your screen versus the uploaded version, the smaller version is only 82.1 kb, the larger is only 184 kb, compressing images the much does affect the IQ and can cause loss of detail. I am not sure how to save in PaintShopPro because I have not used that in years but there must be a way to adjust the image compression when you go to save the files. Try to get them as close to the 200/500 kb limit as possible.

Registered on June 25, 2007, 491 Posts, 12566 Comments

Comment posted by Jim DeWitt on February 27, 2010 at 3:15 PM

I must have missed the earlier post; this is a fine portrait, Dan. There are some minor JPEG compression artifacts in the background, which I think resulted from your high JPEG compression rate. I don't use Paint Shop, so I don't know how to adjust the compression level, but I'm sure it can.

All of that is a minor nit on a fine shot.

Registered on August 28, 2006, 1240 Posts, 8506 Comments

Comment posted by Sharon Hallowell on February 27, 2010 at 4:25 PM

Great portrait! Love the detail and the look of that gorgeous eye. If you got any with some of the vehicle in it, you may want to forward it to GMC...would make a great ad for an SUV! Sharon

Registered on November 1, 2003, 392 Posts, 4810 Comments

Comment posted by Dan Moore on February 27, 2010 at 5:12 PM

Trying a different method to resize and sharpen.

Registered on February 11, 2010, 143 Posts, 1248 Comments