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Male Pintail taken at Slimbridge last week..Quite a striking duck and amongst my favourites
Nice 'specimen' picture though as Gramps infers might need a tad of extra PP, as you have editing "yes" here is a quick levels tweak to lift it and dab of sharpening
More could be done from the full size (raw?) file. I have hosted it to post it, please say if/when I should remove it?
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A nice pose John, and some good details throughout. Where it struggles is in the dark tones which are underexposed. You can't just raise the whole exposure though because you'll blow the white breast feathers.
If you have PS, then do a curves layer adjustment, and just raise the dark tones. It should make a nice difference, something along these lines but to your taste.
If you prefer lightroom, then either pushing the shadows slider to the right or go to the tone curve, pick a point about 1/4 of the way in from the left and drag the line upwards will do a similar thing.
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If you have PS, then do a curves layer adjustment, and just raise the dark tones. It should make a nice difference, something along these lines but to your taste.
If you prefer lightroom, then either pushing the shadows slider to the right or go to the tone curve, pick a point about 1/4 of the way in from the left and drag the line upwards will do a similar thing.
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Thanks all for the input.
Roger..I've now changed the WB setting to give it a warmer tone and also opened it up a bit to give more room.
Love seeing these around now, colour looks a bit cool and it's a bit tight in the frame but the 'pose' is very typical of the species.
Roger..I've now changed the WB setting to give it a warmer tone and also opened it up a bit to give more room.
Nice 'specimen' picture though as Gramps infers might need a tad of extra PP, as you have editing "yes" here is a quick levels tweak to lift it and dab of sharpening
No need to remove it,that's fine, thanks. I do shoot in RAW. I think a lot of photos in this forum as opposed to than Landscapes fall short on editing so it's an area needing more scrutiny on my part.
A nice pose John, and some good details throughout. Where it struggles is in the dark tones which are underexposed. You can't just raise the whole exposure though because you'll blow the white breast feathers.
If you have PS, then do a curves layer adjustment, and just raise the dark tones. It should make a nice difference, something along these lines but to your taste.
If you prefer lightroom, then either pushing the shadows slider to the right or go to the tone curve, pick a point about 1/4 of the way in from the left and drag the line upwards will do a similar thing.
Mike
Cheers,Mike. I've hopefully made the adjustments suggested and have lightened it up some. I don't have PS but LR4 at the moment so I upped the shadows. We're about to get a new computer and I''ll get LR6. My wife gave me a 7D11 and LR4 won't accept the photos so I was about to get the DVD version of LR6 only I find out that the current 27"iMac (I have version 10.8.5 which is about 5 years old now) has done away with DVD slots. Has to be Apple Cloud-based or buy an £80 external DVD drive. Expensive 7D11..lol. I'm taking photos with my 1D1V at present.
Here's my re-adjusted image . Hope this has improved it to the above standards or somewhere near at least.
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Great pic John
and a lesson in PP too well worth the visit to the Thread
and a lesson in PP too well worth the visit to the ThreadThis thread epitomizes what i have found since recently joining this community - People taking the time to help each other in many different ways.Thank you all.
Agree with comments about the picture,but they are bonnie birds!
Agree with comments about the picture,but they are bonnie birds!
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Great pic John
Many thanks,Charles. I think I'll put this duck at the top of my favourites list. It seems to have a class about it.
Thanks,John.I got there in the end, just need too sort out my computer and LR6 now..
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The RP is a nice improvement John. To me it shows warmer tones than the OP and better detail in the darks.
If you've got PSE then that does 99% of what we need until you go down the 'creative' photography route, so as long as LR6 supports your RAWs then that looks like a good option.
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Cheers,Mike.
Yes, all the Lightroom's support RAW. I'll get LR6 even though I have Elements because the forte of LR is the cataloguing,it's excellent and I'm very familiar with it.