chickadee
Dec 30, 2019 20:34:37 #
put some bird seed out and a scraggly little friend came to visit.
Dec 30, 2019 20:58:43 #
Poor little guy looks pretty abused or maybe just wet. Maybe just homeless and in need of some warm milk and cookies. I'm sure your birdseed will have him looking better quickly.
Dec 30, 2019 21:23:43 #
Cute bird, and very interesting image bokeh, please tell me more about how it as shot and processed.
Dec 30, 2019 23:16:31 #
Hereford wrote:
Poor little guy looks pretty abused or maybe just wet. Maybe just homeless and in need of some warm milk and cookies. I'm sure your birdseed will have him looking better quickly.
Hi Hereford, it rained all morning, but the shot was in the evening, he might have cleaned up in a puddle. Was very active and kept yelling at me to get away from the seed. The only ones more fearless than the chickadees are the crazy nuthatches.
Dec 30, 2019 23:25:08 #
par4fore wrote:
Cute bird, and very interesting image bokeh, please tell me more about how it as shot and processed.
hi par4fore. These are crops from a handheld 600 mm at maybe 20 feet - the last of the sun was peeking over and lit up the bird from the front, coming from behind me.
The DOF was very narrow with aperture set at 6.3. I helped blur the background some in post processing. I lifted the shadows, and pulled back the highlights. Using a luminosity mask on the brights, I added camera raw texture. The shadows got noise reduction and a little coolness. I placed a texture on top in screen mode (screen cause the image was kind of dark) and masked out some of the bird and messed with contrast a little bit to restore a little bit of punch.
Dec 31, 2019 06:13:18 #
pfrancke wrote:
hi par4fore. These are crops from a handheld 600 ... (show quote)
Nice work, thanks for the info. John
Dec 31, 2019 09:51:28 #
pfrancke wrote:
put some bird seed out and a scraggly little friend came to visit.
I like the way you treated these images and the colors in them . Gorgeous works.
Dec 31, 2019 09:53:54 #
Dec 31, 2019 10:00:37 #
Blair Shaw Jr wrote:
I like the way you treated these images and the colors in them . Gorgeous works.
hi Blair, thanks.
Dec 31, 2019 10:00:55 #
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Jan 1, 2020 16:12:53 #
azarz wrote:
Just love these. Thanks for sharing them and your processing info.
hey thanks for looking in azarz..
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