Robert, your photo looks too dark to me. I checked it in the Photoshop info panel and the lightest part of the beak is only about 240, and for those who may not know, 255 is pure white. I thought the coot and the water were too dark also. I used levels and ran the brightness slider to 242 and the gamma (center) slider to 1.30 also. It's still darker than it looked in "real life" but since you prefer a darker look I didn't lighten it any more. Other than that issue it looks good! I like vignetting but yours appears to come in further than what I usually do, if that's what made the water so dark. I attached my altered version. Nice catch on it being slightly tilted; almost all of mine tilt to the right for some reason but I didn't notice it in this one. Judy Howle Southern Exposures http://southernexposure.zenfolio.com Digital Photography Class; Resources for Photographers http://digitalphotographyclass.net From: missbirdphotos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:missbirdphotos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Smith Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 6:18 AM To: missbirdphotos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [missbirdphotos] Re: Link to my coot image Okay, I took a stab at the coot shot this morning... I opened it in Adobe Raw Converter & selected "Auto" for the start. Then I increased color temperature, slightly lightened the image's exposure, increased fill light, increased highlight recovery, increased blacks, and increased contrast, and then opened it in Adobe Photoshop. Once in Photoshop, I increased contrast again, I cropped & slightly rotated the image to "straighten" it to my eye, I burned the iris to make it darker, I resized it & sharpened it for web use, and then I added a slight vignette. Total time, right at 3 minutes & 15 seconds. I thought about burning the ivory bill just a hair, but elected not to do so. To me, American coots are one super tough bird to expose and capture the details in the bill AND the details in the feathers, and Judy did a great job of expsoing on this one! Robert Smith 336-339-3497 rsmithent@xxxxxxx www.photobiologist.com > From: howle@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To: missbirdphotos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [missbirdphotos] Link to my coot image > Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:27:31 -0500 > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40040661/IMG_8210.CR2 I created 4 new more natural jpg versions from this image and made notes of the processing. Do you want to see them before or after your attempts?? > > > In case you want to know how Dropbox works in advance, there is a document that comes with the installation and it says: > > The Public Folder lets you easily share single files in your Dropbox. Any file you put in this folder gets its own Internet link so that you can share it with others-- even non-Dropbox users! These links work even if your computer's turned off. > > Step 1: Drop a file into the Public folder. > > Step 2: Right-click/control-click this file, then choose Dropbox > Copy Public Link. This copies the Internet link to your file so that you can paste it somewhere else. > > That's it! You can now share this file with others: just paste the link into e-mails, instant message conversations, blogs, etc.! > > If you'd like more help with sharing files, head here: http://www.dropbox.com/help/16 > > Happy Dropboxing! > - The Dropbox Team > > Note: You can only link to actual files within your Public Folder, not to folders. > > Judy Howle > > Southern Exposures > http://southernexposure.zenfolio.com > > Digital Photography Class; Resources for Photographers > http://digitalphotographyclass.net > > > >
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