Charlies Angels (Geese) and others

slodave

Hi!

After my first post, the skies turned grey and it rained for a week. I had been going over other pictures, but could not come up with anything worth posting. Anyway, I stopped by Los Encinos State Historic Park this afternoon (it is a park slated for closure in California, due to funding :cry). They have a pond that is fed by a natural spring. Gasp! Water 365 coming up from the ground in Los Angeles, can't be, but true.

These pics are nothing special, but I was playing with in camera sharpening. All were taken with the "High Setting". Although I cropped in PS and tweaked the levels, I did not use the "Unsharp Mask".

What do you think? I think they are rather sharp. Composition is not great, but the pond has a four foot fence around it and all I could really co, is shoot down.

I came up with Charlie's Angels after seeing the picture of the three geese, with the center one touching the tips of its wings.






Shows over, nothing more to see. Move on please!










Feel free to C&C. Thanks for looking.

Harryb

Good set Dave. I would suggest that you do your sharpening in you post work though. That way you will have more control and you are a whole lot smarter than your camera. You can also sharpen selectively. In these shots you would really only want to sharpen the geese and that would have prevented some of the grain I see in the backgrounds.

slodave

Thanks for the reply Harry. I have heard mixed reviews on where the sharpening should be done. I took a number of shots today and set the in camera sharpening to normal. I may leave it on that setting for a bit and try and do a little more sharpening in PS.