Jay portrait

Gallery: AvianPosted October 13, 2011125 views6 comments

Jay, taken with a Canon 7D, 600mm f/4. Settings: manual exposure, f/11, 1/250 sec, ISO 400.

Imported with ACR, processed and sharpened in Photoshop CS5: curves, brightness, contrast, full frame. Very minor cloning to one foot and to the beak.

Huge thanks to Phil Shaw for making this photo possible.

Thanks for the comments and help so far. C's & c's very welcome as always.

Thanks,

Paul.

Comments

6 comments

Comment posted by Ian Mason on October 13, 2011 at 4:35 PM

That's a cracker! Beautiful pose, great perch and background. My only suggestion would be to remove the white blobs on the perch and tone down the yellow spot top right. I love it!

Registered on December 14, 2005, 399 Posts, 2305 Comments

Comment posted by David Sewell on October 13, 2011 at 6:14 PM

That's a fine shot, Paul. If it were mine, I would sacrifice a little space left of the bird so that I could have more on the right for it to look into.

David

Registered on September 10, 2008, 63 Posts, 801 Comments

Comment posted by keith mitchell on October 14, 2011 at 3:12 AM

Paul a beautiful relaxed bird tiny nits covered its a very good shot.

Keith.

Registered on July 12, 2008, 127 Posts, 1735 Comments

Comment posted by John Robinson on October 14, 2011 at 6:32 AM

Looks good to me.
JR

Registered on March 2, 2008, 535 Posts, 2453 Comments

Comment posted by Phil Shaw on October 14, 2011 at 6:37 AM

It looks a little too blue to me. I wonder what a levels adjustment in the red and green channels would do to the overall colour? You could use a layer mask to preserve the blue in the wing and eye. For printing I would crop the bottom part of the frame so that the rightmost point of the side branch formed the base of the composition.

Registered on July 25, 2005, 26 Posts, 110 Comments

Comment posted by John Robinson on October 14, 2011 at 4:32 PM

Interesting comments Phil
I downloaded the large version and checked it and the whites seemed about OK by my calcs. Maybe my monitors wrong.
Certainly not showing a blue bias. Others views would be useful before I re calibrate.
Cheers
JR

Registered on March 2, 2008, 535 Posts, 2453 Comments