Another hotel bird
Aug 31, 2023 00:02:16 #
This is another bird seen and photographed at the hotel we stay at in Liberia, Costa Rica, near the airport. There is a small pond (2 tennis court sized) that is loaded with wading birds, Whistling Ducks, herons, egrets, etc. Early in the morning it is simple to take 100's of images before breakfast. Certainly this is not a rare bird, and can be seen in many countries, including the USA, but it is still a striking bird. After I processed it in PS (minimal processing-small increase in saturation, brightness of bird and small darkening of BG, I ran it through through Topaz De Noise AI. Question is: does it look over sharpened to you?
Shot with a Canon R5, 600 mm lens, handheld, SS 1/2000, f/4.0, ISO 2500, EC +0.3, distance approximately 40'.
This begs the question that was posted earlier this week about "critical comments" about photos in the Gallery Section. I welcome thoughtful criticisms or praise but when I post a picture in the Photo Critique section, it always is moved by the Administrators to the Birds section.
Shot with a Canon R5, 600 mm lens, handheld, SS 1/2000, f/4.0, ISO 2500, EC +0.3, distance approximately 40'.
This begs the question that was posted earlier this week about "critical comments" about photos in the Gallery Section. I welcome thoughtful criticisms or praise but when I post a picture in the Photo Critique section, it always is moved by the Administrators to the Birds section.
Aug 31, 2023 00:45:24 #
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Aug 31, 2023 07:54:36 #
bajadreamer wrote:
This is another bird seen and photographed at the ... (show quote)
To my eye, it is a very nice photo of a beautiful species of Gallinule (Purple Gallinule). It does not look to be over sharpened even after a double download and some additional enlargement. I'll go a step further and say that the colors look VERY natural to me. That's my way of saying that, imo, it is not oversaturated. On an aside - the feet on this species are absolutely fascinating to watch.
Aug 31, 2023 08:24:26 #
Aug 31, 2023 08:24:26 #
CCPhotoist wrote:
It's beautiful.
Thanks. I enjoy watching this species; always beautiful but they change with the light.
Aug 31, 2023 08:24:41 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
Nice shot, it doesn't seem over sharpened to me
Thank you for your thoughts.
Aug 31, 2023 08:24:53 #
Aug 31, 2023 08:26:00 #
MadMikeOne wrote:
To my eye, it is a very nice photo of a beautiful species of Gallinule (Purple Gallinule). It does not look to be over sharpened even after a double download and some additional enlargement. I'll go a step further and say that the colors look VERY natural to me. That's my way of saying that, imo, it is not oversaturated. On an aside - the feet on this species are absolutely fascinating to watch.
I appreciate that you took the time to look and comment. Thanks. I agree with you about the feet. That is one major deficiency of this image-very little shows of the feet.
Aug 31, 2023 08:26:20 #
Aug 31, 2023 08:48:18 #
bajadreamer wrote:
I appreciate that you took the time to look and comment. Thanks. I agree with you about the feet. That is one major deficiency of this image-very little shows of the feet.
It's tough to get those big feet in the same frame with the rest of the bird 😀. I speak from experience!
Aug 31, 2023 08:58:01 #
Certainly not over-sharpened - maybe not sharpened enough ! I think the top could use some cropping.
The light is very soft/low contrast with a lot of yellow. ......So, IMO, it could use a levels adjustment, a bit of contrast/saturation, and +blue to the mid-tones. The brightness of the OOF foreground is also a bit distracting for me.
These Gallinules are very attractive and always a challenge to get really good images of - I have a few samples at my FAA web-site. One of my most viewed images shows their feet to good advantage ! https://fineartamerica.com/featured/purple-gallinule-feet-larry-nieland.html
2000 SS and 2500 ISO seems a bit high - unless you were anticipating an in flight .....
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The light is very soft/low contrast with a lot of yellow. ......So, IMO, it could use a levels adjustment, a bit of contrast/saturation, and +blue to the mid-tones. The brightness of the OOF foreground is also a bit distracting for me.
These Gallinules are very attractive and always a challenge to get really good images of - I have a few samples at my FAA web-site. One of my most viewed images shows their feet to good advantage ! https://fineartamerica.com/featured/purple-gallinule-feet-larry-nieland.html
2000 SS and 2500 ISO seems a bit high - unless you were anticipating an in flight .....
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Aug 31, 2023 09:11:31 #
imagemeister wrote:
Certainly not over-sharpened - maybe not sharpened... (show quote)
Thank you for your thoughts. This is the scenario for this shot; a few minutes after sunrise so the light was very yellow (I always debate this on sunrise shots-leave the yellow-orange color cast or not). I was sitting on my butt, to try to get low-there was a low "ridge" (the OOF foreground) that then dropped off to the water. I was trying to keep my POV low so the ridge was present in the shot. The SS was maybe a little higher than needed, but I was handholding a 600 f/4.0 lens (at that time a version 2). I take your point about bringing down the foreground somewhat.
Aug 31, 2023 09:45:04 #
I did not see any evidence of over sharpening, beautiful bird, great capture.
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