Quail

Rohirrim

Captured this young California Quail a couple days ago. I'm pretty happy with the capture, I hope you enjoy it too.


EXIF

Thanks for looking,

Michiel de Brieder

Great DOF and colors Steve

ginger_55

I want to make some kind of joke re California being sooooo different, but I can't think of one.

Never seen a quail, who knows, they might be different in the east, too.

That is a great capture, I would be happy with it, too. The choice of f stop was wonderful for the DOF.

ginger

GREAPER

Very nice. Good compositon, great DOF. Nicely done.

Rohirrim

Thank you Michiel, Ginger and Greaper!

windoze

your images are always very nice to look at!!!
thanx for sharing them....


troy

Rohirrim wrote:

Captured this young California Quail a couple days ago. I'm pretty happy with the capture, I hope you enjoy it too.


EXIF

Thanks for looking,

DavidTO

Fantastic image.

It's greatly helped by the basic LAB recipe discussed here.

I played with it, but won't post unless you want me to.

I think the pop of the picture was greatly improved.

It was a pleasure messing with such an awesome picture.

Rohirrim

DavidTO wrote:

Fantastic image.

It's greatly helped by the basic LAB recipe discussed here.

I played with it, but won't post unless you want me to.

I think the pop of the picture was greatly improved.

It was a pleasure messing with such an awesome picture.

I had already done some LAB adjustments after the RAW conversion. I made a 10 point adjustment on the a and b channels and then sharpened the L channel. I thought it looked a little unreal when done any higher than 10. But if you think its better I'd like to take a look.

Regards,

bfjr

good looking shot of a good looking bird

Rohirrim

Rohirrim wrote:

I had already done some LAB adjustments after the RAW conversion. I made a 10 point adjustment on the a and b channels and then sharpened the L channel. I thought it looked a little unreal when done any higher than 10. But if you think its better I'd like to take a look.

Regards,

Ok, I take what I said back.

I went back to the image and played with the curves a little more. Added a 20 point adjustment to the a and b channel and made a slight S curve to the Lightness channel. Now what do you think?

Original Image


And now with additional LAB adjustments:


Maybe even more contrast? Sometimes I have a hard time knowing when to stop.



I think I've been looking at them too long. Not even sure if I've made that much difference

DavidTO

I think either of your re-dos are better.

Yes, it's kind of subtle, but the colors are richer.

As for the contrast, I think either is fine.

But yes, that is what I was talking about.

Nice work!

PossumCorner

He is a beautiful little bird and knows it - all of our local quails, the King Quail and the Stubble Quail have disappeared - wiped out by predatory domestic-gone-feral cats. Liked your magpie also, they are much more elegant than ours.

Harryb

Excellent shot, nicelt executed.

Rohirrim

Harryb wrote:

Excellent shot, nicelt executed.

Thank you Possum and Harry.

***Holds his tongue about Harry's spelling***

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