A few recent

Hawkman

Hi,

Here are a few local recent, followed by a one more from my Palo Alto CA trip a month back that I have gotten to processing. Enjoy (I hope)! Gene

windoze

all are gorgeous! All sharp, and detailed.... So Gene how about some pointers?? Do you use a tripod or are these handheld? Do you spend a lot of time in "post"? Once Again - Gorgeous!


troy

Hawkman wrote:

Hi,

Here are a few local recent, followed by a one more from my Palo Alto CA trip a month back that I have gotten to processing. Enjoy (I hope)! Gene

wxwax

Gene, these are superb

How do you train wild animals to pose against complementary-colored backgrounds?

DavidTO

Excellent!

pathfinder

wxwax wrote:

Gene, these are superb

How do you train wild animals to pose against complementary-colored backgrounds?

I agree with Sid. These are truly excellent!! But how in the world, do you get the nice complementary colored backgrounds? The local birds are not nearly so cooperative for me

I was just about to post my bird shots from Yosemite and now I have to be a follow up act to this!!!

And no fair posting without identifying the birds your are shoting. Some of us ( me maybe??) do not always recognize the species of the bird and are still learning our way around. Great to see you posting here Hawkman, very impressive images.

USAIR

Gene
Great shots
All are just wonderful but #2 and 4 are just unbelievable

Thanks
Fred

bfjr

Most Excellent Set Gene

Kirwin

Hi Gene,

All your images are incredibly beautiful. The backgrounds make your images "pop".

Harryb

Outstanding Gene. Your pics are just about perfect.

Hawkman

windoze wrote:

all are gorgeous! All sharp, and detailed.... So Gene how about some pointers?? Do you use a tripod or are these handheld? Do you spend a lot of time in "post"? Once Again - Gorgeous!


troy

Hawkman wrote:

Hi,

Here are a few local recent, followed by a one more from my Palo Alto CA trip a month back that I have gotten to processing. Enjoy (I hope)! Gene

Thanks Troy,

I believe the first and third were on a tripod, the rest were hand-held. It's kind of hard for me to remember the 500/4L shots since I mix hand-held and tripod up with it. THe last was with the 400/5.6L, hand-held.

I usually, if the condition is right, focus on the eye and recompose, and adjust the DOF according to the background and available light and whether I am hand-held/tripod/monopod.

For web post processing, currently I make a pass through C1 LE where I adjust WB, levels, add about 3% overall saturation, and perform a "pre-sharpen" of "soft,50,0". I convert this to 16 bit TIFF for PS CS ingest, where I do any further work, which usually includes further levels, highlight/shading, sometimes dodging or burning, stairstep resizing, then a final USM shaprening.

Cheers,
Gene

Andy

congrats, gene, on a fine fine set

Hawkman

wxwax wrote:

Gene, these are superb

How do you train wild animals to pose against complementary-colored backgrounds?

. I do have to move around to get a good background. Up to recent its been gray sky or dormant twigs, but it at least is green now, though still gray skys. This spring hasn't had many sunlit days around Chicagoland.

Gene

Hawkman

Sorry, I was remiss.
#1 Great Egret in breeding plumage
#2 female tree swallow
#3 another Great Egret (maybe the same one on a different day)
#4 Black-crowned Night Heron

Cheers,
Gene

pathfinder wrote:

I agree with Sid. These are truly excellent!! But how in the world, do you get the nice complementary colored backgrounds? The local birds are not nearly so cooperative for me

I was just about to post my bird shots from Yosemite and now I have to be a follow up act to this!!!

And no fair posting without identifying the birds your are shoting. Some of us ( me maybe??) do not always recognize the species of the bird and are still learning our way around. Great to see you posting here Hawkman, very impressive images.

Hawkman

Thanks everyone!
Thanks,
Gene

MuskyDude

One thing I keep thinking, looking at these is... "I'm not wortheeeeeeeee!!!!!"





And the other: :jawdrop


AJ

jwear

Harryb wrote:

Outstanding Gene. Your pics are just about perfect.

yep Harry is right well most of the time and thanks for sharing your computer tips great pics

Phil U.

Ho-boy, these are NICE!