Tim Øsleby wrote: > Blown out? > I think they must have changed during preps for web. It looked better inside > Elements. Online it looks a bit lighter.
The light part of the rocks and the birds' white feathers are blown out in the new version. The tones where much better originally. > > When I said light USM I ment 85/1/4. That's what Scott Kelby (the author of > the book I'm using) calls a "All-Purpose Sharpening", "Subtile enough that > you can apply it twice if your photo doesn't seem sharp enough". When you > say oversharpened, do you mean heavily or a tad too much? Are you speaking > genereally, or in any specific parts of the photo? The edges of the rocks and the lapwing on the right look odd. To well defined, especially as the middle part of that lapwing has very little sharp detail. > > I do agree that the angle is less than perfect. But it was kind of hard > working around the birds, without a boat ;-) > > Christian. I really appreciate this feedback. I may be an ass, but I do need > some whiping ;-) you're not an ass... well mostly maybe... :-) -- Christian http://photography.skofteland.net > Tim Øsleby wrote: > >> Origenal http://www.photosight.org/photo.php?photoid=58978&ref=author >> The main problem here is lack of seperation between birds and rocks. >> >> The improved version: >> http://www.photosight.org/photo.php?photoid=60124&ref=author >> >> What do you think? Worth the effort? > > Hmmmmm, that's a loaded question.... :-) > > First: The original is better. The second looks blown out and, for > whatever reason, oversharpened (you said "light USM" and I'll take your > word for it. Just telling you how it looks to me). > > Ok, so how would I improve it? This one had a lot of potential from the > beginning but you missed THE opportunity, in my opinion. I love the > group of oystercatchers. It reminds me of a group of black skimmers I > shot in Cape May. Both are black birds with orange bills. My main > complaint is that you shot them from behind. I would have worked around > to the left to get them more in profile. The shot would have been > similar. A group of birds with some (in the front) in sharp focus, and > the remaining flock OOF. Hard to work a skittish flock of birds? Of > course, but possible by keeping a low profile and crawling on your belly. > > Yes, I know this isn't meant to be a "typical" bird picture. But, the > birds in better profile and focus, yet still with the swirling snow and > rocky beachscape, would have been THE killer shot. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
