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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: Neil Williams on January 08, 2016, 01:06:00 am
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Guys I shot this Blue Tail Bee Eater this morning at these settings
Nikon D810
ISO 1400
f8
1/1000
600mm f4
My question is while trying not to loose father detail by adding noise reduction I managed to get this look with still quite a bit of detail in the fathers just buy adding a wee bitty of sharping and one pass in ColorEfex Pro......I used Gaussian blur to fix the noisy background.
On print it looks great but I am wondering if anyone wants to share another workflow that they use or one an I can look at online (Paid or Free) to maybe help me bring out more detail in the bird.
I am using CS6
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Hi Neil,
Nice photo! It looks good at this size on screen, but it's hard to tell without seeing the original. If you could give access to it I would be interested to see if it's possible to apply some noise reduction before sharpening (although there probably isn't much noise at ISO 1400?).
Robert
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Hi Neil,
Nice photo! It looks good at this size on screen, but it's hard to tell without seeing the original. If you could give access to it I would be interested to see if it's possible to apply some noise reduction before sharpening (although there probably isn't much noise at ISO 1400?).
Robert
Here you go mate
https://www.dropbox.com/s/15brqv12vu9jqus/Neil%27s_Photography_January%2008%2C%202016__NUK1536.NEF?dl=0
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Hello Neil, congrats on the capture of the bird.
When I looked at the image that you provided for download it just took me a couple of minutes in Lightroom to produce this with the basic adjustment and the Radial Filter and Adjustment Brush. Blurring the background by decreasing sharpness and clarity seemed to be a good look and I found no noise worth worrying about.
Hope this helps,
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I would replace the background, because I think the brightness detracts from the subject. I used curves and Topaz Clarity to bring out the colors and details a little more.
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I would replace the background, because I think the brightness detracts from the subject. I used curves and Topaz Clarity to bring out the colors and details a little more.
Getting rid of the background makes great artistic sense. I'm not sure how that will sit with a birder though.
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I would replace the background, because I think the brightness detracts from the subject. I used curves and Topaz Clarity to bring out the colors and details a little more.
That looks a lot better....do you mind sharing how you did that in a step by step 1234 kind of way?
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Getting rid of the background makes great artistic sense. I'm not sure how that will sit with a birder though.
I agree. Serious birders tend to be purists about that sort of thing. You don't mess with Mother Nature.
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I agree. Serious birders tend to be purists about that sort of thing. You don't mess with Mother Nature.
I know but you did and I would like to know how you did that..........if you know what I mean :) :) :)
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That looks a lot better....do you mind sharing how you did that in a step by step 1234 kind of way?
That would take a lot of numbers! But the key to the whole thing is building a mask that separates the bird/branch from the background (see attachment). From there its a matter of putting in the background you want, adjusting color, brightness, etc. I just used a picture of some trees and blurred it a lot, then clipped a hue/sat adjustment layer to that to turn it a dull gold. (All of this is in Photoshop, by the way.)
Masking is the hardest part, and I can't really explain step by step how to do that because there so many variables. In this case it calls for some painstaking painting around the edges after a rough mask is made with the quick select tool. There are lots of tutorials on masking you can find by searching.