Colorful Lady

Gallery: AvianPosted March 12, 201461 views8 comments

I liked the colors on this pretty lady. Processed with Photoshop CS3, NeatImage and LightZone. Comments and critiques welcome.

Canon 7D
Canon 200-400 f4 L IS
f7.1
1/1250 s
ISO 640
Focal Length 560mm (Teleconverter Engaged)

Comments

8 comments

Comment posted by Richard Ditch on March 12, 2014 at 10:52 PM

As with your recent wigeon and shoveler posts, this Wood Duck appears dark and flat as presented. The histogram for this image shows tones are predominantly on the dark side of middle gray, with a large unused range on the highlights side. The bright area around the eye (Sibley calls it "White") looks grayish as if the highlights were heavily suppressed in post processing.

Thre's good detail/sharpness in this, with a nice low point of view. I'd like to see this brighter and closer to natural tones.

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on March 12, 2014 at 10:54 PM

Nice colors indeed, Jerry, and an excellent job of bringing them out. It does look as if it could be brighter.

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Comment posted by Jerry Austin on March 12, 2014 at 11:07 PM

I agree Richard. Some of my images appear darker after posting them. How's this repost?

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Comment posted by Richard Ditch on March 12, 2014 at 11:30 PM

The repost is a lot better.

Colors/brightness shouldn't change when posting. Are you embedding the proper color profile in the jpeg for posting? Processing in a wider color space than sRGB and not converting before posting?

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Comment posted by Rick Cloran on March 13, 2014 at 11:27 AM

The lighter repost shows off the true beauty in this lady very nicely. As always the detail is excellent. With the ripples in the water, the reflection isn't as strong so I would be inclined to crop up about half the distance to her.

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Comment posted by Hans Overduin on March 13, 2014 at 3:04 PM

Very nice colors in this duck, and the repost certainly brings them out better ! Cheers, Haans

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Comment posted by Richard Teller on March 13, 2014 at 3:30 PM

The second image is much better. I like the ruffled feathers.

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on March 13, 2014 at 8:09 PM

Nice detail and sharpness Jerry, for me the repost is too light and the original is too dark, so something in between would be ideal I think.

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