Dive With Leg..Repost

Gallery: AvianPosted May 7, 2016110 views13 comments

After all the great help, I think this image is so much improved, that I decided to repost it. It, and my images going forward, should look significantly better. Now, the postings should look more like they were captured.
Please see the large image.

Taken at Live Oak Nursery in June of 2015. Info the same as my post of 5/6/16.

D7200, tripod, cable release,
1/4000, f/8
ISO 400
Tamron 150-600mm @ 420mm
Exposure adjustments, sharpening, cloned out small leaf at top.

Comments

13 comments

Comment posted by Dennis Plank on May 7, 2016 at 3:06 PM

Gorgeous, Raoul. Definitely a major improvement. It looks like you have the posting process down nicely at this point.

devil

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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on May 7, 2016 at 4:24 PM

Loads better! Great job!

Sandy

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Comment posted by Ed Williams on May 7, 2016 at 7:36 PM

Great shot either way Raoul. Love the action.

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Comment posted by Raoul Breaux Jr on May 7, 2016 at 8:12 PM

Thanks for the encouraging feedback Dennis and Sandy! While it looks better, it still doesn't have the detail and luminance that I am seeing when I open the 1600 pixel locally (on my computer). The sharpness is better now, but it is almost like the NPN image has a...veil over it. I am embedding the sRGB color space with the exported image, so perhaps there is some issue with that being used properly, or perhaps the version of sRGB color space differs. I'll get it sorted out.

Dennis, I used the two file upload as you suggested and that worked well. And Sandy, tonight I will downolad the Nik Suite and start looking at that.

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Comment posted by Lon Sharp on May 7, 2016 at 9:15 PM

This is an attention grabber! Well done.

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Comment posted by Ken Archer on May 8, 2016 at 5:47 AM

Killer action capture Raoul devil

Nice job re-working this image!

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Comment posted by Ken Watkins on May 8, 2016 at 6:04 AM

Raoul.
This was not bad to start with it now looks great!

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Comment posted by Yun Gao on May 8, 2016 at 11:25 AM

Wonderful pose and perfect moment. The repost is a big improvement. Excellent image!

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Comment posted by Steve Thompson on May 8, 2016 at 11:57 AM

I just love this image Raoul and the repost was well worth the time! devil

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Comment posted by May Haga on May 8, 2016 at 6:39 PM

Oh yes, Raoul, this is a beauty.
May

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on May 9, 2016 at 6:40 PM

This looks great Raoul, nice job on the processing with the repost, super action here. Compositionally I would crop just a little bit from the top, if you have anymore space on the bottom I would add it as he is flying that direction but I imagine you would have included more space there if you did have it. devil

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Comment posted by Raoul Breaux Jr on May 9, 2016 at 10:19 PM

Yep Nate, the bottom of this picture is the bottom of the frame. I can't tell you how many times I tried to push the bird up in the crop frame when I was editing the composition. cheeky

Registered on April 27, 2016, 20 Posts, 142 Comments

Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on May 10, 2016 at 11:03 PM

I like the spread of the legs in this. Like others agree on nice job with the processing, but also wish you had a bit more room on the bottom and less on top. Not sure if you tried adding some canvas, but if you're not opposed to that sort of thing, it would be easy with that BG if you chose to do so.

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