Meet the crane

[Ian]

Taken at the Chessington World of Adventure. It was overcast but the light seems good in this shot. The lens used was a Panasonic Lumix 100-300, @300mm, f/6.3, ISO 1600, 1/500th, processed in Lightroom 4 from an Olympus OM-D E-M5 camera JPEG. This not cropped.

Feedback welcomed

Ian

[escallonia]

Re: Meet the crane

Nice photo Ian you are so lucky to be using the M-5, like the bokeh looking forward to having mine. regards JohnR.

[Garry]

Re: Meet the crane

Again! 1 week of showing! 205 viewings, and yet only one member has managed to comment.

I wonder why members actually log in, sometimes!

Over all. This is good, Ian

The background is uncluttered and allows the head to show well. Very good DoF

I am not in any way good at processing. But I do wonder if just a little more detail might have been prized out of this one, with a little more processing!

[Ian]

Re: Meet the crane

Again! 1 week of showing! 205 viewings, and yet only one member has managed to comment.

I wonder why members actually log in, sometimes!

Over all. This is good, Ian

The background is uncluttered and allows the head to show well. Very good DoF

I am not in any way good at processing. But I do wonder if just a little more detail might have been prized out of this one, with a little more processing!

Thanks for the feedback Garry -I will have a look at the original and see if I can sharpen it up a bit more.

One reason why this image may have not had so many comments here is that I have shown it on our other sites too, where it has attracted quite a lot of feedback. I know many DPNow members saw the shot elsewhere first! Some there didn't like the patches of yellow.

Ian

[Ian]

Re: Meet the crane



In response to Garry's comments, using Lightroom 4, I have reduced noise reduction, increased sharpening, increased contrast and clarity, as well as increased highlight preservation and black levels while lifting shadows further. I have also reduced the luminosity of yellows in order to reduce the distraction of the blurred yellow background highlights. Does all this make much difference?

Also, please remember that this is from an in-camera JPEG (the E-M5 is not yet widely supported for RAW conversion) and it was an overcast day. I believe I could produce a better result from RAW using Lightroom 4. The shot was taken at ISO 1600 too.

Ian

[Garry]

Re: Meet the crane

Hi Ian

I have just spent the last 5 minutes scrolling up and down, to compare the two.

I know I dont show them here. But I photograph birds all the time.

I tend to look for sharpness of beak and eye, and feather detail.

You re worked image has in my opinion improved the sharpness to the beak. The clarity of the eye, and the detail in the feathers.

I prefer this version, although I realise that there is a balance to me made, as in improving the bird. The background is not so smooth.

Thanks for doing this. It looked like a lot of work. In my opinion, it was worth while.
You and others may see it differently.

[Pol]

Re: Meet the crane

I have also reduced the luminosity of yellows in order to reduce the distraction of the blurred yellow background highlights. Does all this make much difference?

The blurred yellow background doesn't especially bother me, it makes everything more colourful imho.

If you wanted to be rid of the yellow have you tried carefully using contenet aware to remove small areas at a time?

Pol

[Ian]

Re: Meet the crane

The blurred yellow background doesn't especially bother me, it makes everything more colourful imho.

If you wanted to be rid of the yellow have you tried carefully using contenet aware to remove small areas at a time?

Pol

Hi Pol - I could have done that, but I didn't think they needed removing altogether - indeed like you I wasn't that bothered with the yellow patches in the first place

Ian

[escallonia]

Re: Meet the crane

My opinion such as it is, I like the blurred background I also like the detail the eye especially, My interest with this photo is how the camera coped without any processing. We all have our different views on how a photograph should look thats what it's all about.John.