Nicely done Ric. Again.... I'd like to see a bit more room to the bottom in the Jay shot. Negative space is your friend. Let them have a little more of the covers during the long cold nights. A reaccuring theme of crowding your subject. YOu always have killer action captured and wonderful detail and color, but often I feel the subject (bird) is crowded too close to the edge of the frame. Just a thought.
You do always have amazing sharpness to your images. I know it's probably a lot of trouble......but sharing your sharpening technique with us all would be of great help I think. there are many ways to skin this cat ,but would love to hear your technique.... if you would. Thanks.
Nicely done Ric. Again.... I'd like to see a bit more room to the bottom in the Jay shot. Negative space is your friend. Let them have a little more of the covers during the long cold nights. A reaccuring theme of crowding your subject. YOu always have killer action captured and wonderful detail and color, but often I feel the subject (bird) is crowded too close to the edge of the frame. Just a thought.
You do always have amazing sharpness to your images. I know it's probably a lot of trouble......but sharing your sharpening technique with us all would be of great help I think. there are many ways to skin this cat ,but would love to hear your technique.... if you would. Thanks.
Again with the more room stuff! rofl Yeah...yeah..yeah!
On this one...I chopped of the the tail and reconstructed it via cloning...so I guess that was my focus.
As far as sharpening goes...basically capture sharpening in ACR viewing at 100% paining particular attention to the masking level. On images with sky or mostly solid backgrounds...adjust till the BG is completely masked...which will also prevents unwanted surface sharpening...usually 50-70. Then select an appropriate radius amount, being careful to avoid haloing...a smaller amount for heavy crops (.6-.9) and more proportionally as the amount of data increases.
Read this tutorial for lightroom which also applies to ACR in PS.
Once in PS ... I use the "tonal contrast" adjustment in NIK software's ColorEfex plugin. Too many options to list here. Check it out for yourself. I apply these enhancements selectively via a layer mask the the plugin creates for you.
Finally some additional overall or selective sharpening can be accomplished via the "high pass" filter. Read this.
Deciding exactly what to do comes with an eye developed over many processing sessions.
It's my observation that most folks don't want to spend the time massaging their images. Since it is a labor of love for me...I enjoy trying to get the most out of every image.
Now if I could only remember to let the images breathe!:D
Thanks for the sharpening info Ric. Sure some will find it helpful if not at least interesting. I'll not mention your crowding of the birds anymore. :-P I am just cranky because of the crappy cold weather . It's been in the mid 30's around here and my converted Floridian blood can't handle it. I'm afraid it will freeze on me.
Keep posting those pics of the itty bitty sissy song birds. *-)
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I've seen that same look your blue jay is giving you from our local Steller's jays out here.
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You do always have amazing sharpness to your images. I know it's probably a lot of trouble......but sharing your sharpening technique with us all would be of great help I think. there are many ways to skin this cat ,but would love to hear your technique.... if you would. Thanks.
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Again with the more room stuff!
On this one...I chopped of the the tail and reconstructed it via cloning...so I guess that was my focus.
As far as sharpening goes...basically capture sharpening in ACR viewing at 100% paining particular attention to the masking level. On images with sky or mostly solid backgrounds...adjust till the BG is completely masked...which will also prevents unwanted surface sharpening...usually 50-70. Then select an appropriate radius amount, being careful to avoid haloing...a smaller amount for heavy crops (.6-.9) and more proportionally as the amount of data increases.
Read this tutorial for lightroom which also applies to ACR in PS.
Once in PS ... I use the "tonal contrast" adjustment in NIK software's ColorEfex plugin. Too many options to list here. Check it out for yourself. I apply these enhancements selectively via a layer mask the the plugin creates for you.
Finally some additional overall or selective sharpening can be accomplished via the "high pass" filter. Read this.
Deciding exactly what to do comes with an eye developed over many processing sessions.
It's my observation that most folks don't want to spend the time massaging their images. Since it is a labor of love for me...I enjoy trying to get the most out of every image.
Now if I could only remember to let the images breathe!:D
Keep posting those pics of the itty bitty sissy song birds. *-)
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Hopefully you won't need to.:D
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He's my nemesis no more.
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Thanks very much!
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