Friday, 11 April 2008
Mellow Yellow
I have been very busy shooting a series of birds on new feeder products images for a catalogue; I really do enjoy shooting common species, the result is that I spent some time after doing the commissioned images working on the commoner birds that visit the site, the Yellowhammers and Dunnocks especially looked great on the grass and just had to photographed from ground level!
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Thank the Lord for that - Blake's Birds in manageable quantities, rather than hundreds at a time on Flickr!
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Great stuff as ever Nigel - as a matter of interest, are you processing these latest pictures differently in some way?
Many thanks Keith, I'm not knowingly doing anything different in the processing, but I have upgraded my Breeze and I am doing a slightly different sharpening technique on these resized images.
Two passes of smart sharpen on the lightness channel in Lab mode, at 35% 0.2 radius and then a little bit of sharpen details with the noise reduction. I always do them "bespoke" rather than a "save for web" action so I have control over how they look.
I always do them "bespoke" rather than a "save for web" action so I have control over how they look.
Quite right too - "Save for Web" is evil..!
(What can I say? I like looking at Exif).
I think that what I'm seeing is the slight sharpening difference, Nigel - some of the dunnocks (in particular this one http://bp1.blogger.com/_mGZe55aiFQA/R_9rRGQo-uI/AAAAAAAAA70/7e253PUHetQ/s1600-h/_E2D3497.jpg) have a different "look" to 'em.
Whatever it is, I like it.
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