MI3 Entry

gluwater

This is my first try at the Challenge. I took this at the Orlando Wetlands at sundown. It has to be the best Hawk shot I have ever taken and thought it fit the Challenge. It is just slightly cropped for composition. Let me know what you think.

adrian_k

yup, that works.
I can't believe that with almost 900 posts you've never entered a challenge.

gluwater wrote:

This is my first try at the Challenge. I took this at the Orlando Wetlands at sundown. It has to be the best Hawk shot I have ever taken and thought it fit the Challenge. It is just slightly cropped for composition. Let me know what you think.

Thusie

It works! Nice

gluwater

Thanks for the input Adrian and Thusie. I have now seen this shot on 3 different monitors and the saturation looks completely different on each. No, none of the monitors are callibrated and I know each will look different but I was wondering if someone using a calibrated monitor could let me know how they think this looks, especially for saturation. I think I will get rid of some of the noise in the sky before I post it.

I love the shot and I think I have reproduced the scene accurately but it still doesn't compare to what I remember seeing in person :cry .

pathfinder

NIck, I view this image on a 23" Cinema Display calibrated with a Spyder2Pro from Pantone, and the bird and the sky seem pretty hot to my eye. Have you checked the image in PS for being out of gamut in CMYK or even sRGB?

Interesting shot and the orange vs blue is a great complementary color scheme.

I would consider slightly less saturation perhaps.

Discussion of the significance of monitors in evaluation of images has not really been discussed much here on dgrin, but I suspect it plays a very significant role in how different people perceive our images. I do know that shots of mine that seem fine at home, can look very poor on my LCD monitor at work because it is not able to display the full gamut of colors my Apple display can. Images look blown at work, but they are not, just a cheap monitor.

aporia

I think this works well for the two-color challenge also. Great shot.

Can you sharpen the feathers to match the close detail of the branch? That would help to focus more attention on the subject of this pic, the grand bird!

Thusie

Nick,

Wasn't going to say anything since I'm only calibrated with Supercal and have no idea about numbers, I agree with Pathfinder.

gluwater

I only had a little to play with this but how does this look? Any better? I have to go to sleep now gotta be back at work by 2:30AM :puke

bfjr

Looks good on my Ibook G4
and on my
IBM 20" LCD