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While down at my local wetland this morning, I managed this shot of a Little Black Cormorant in lockup mode.
He had just taken off quite low and suddenly shit himself and locked up and turned tail when he saw this Retriever bearing down on him!
Quite a sight.

D300 200-400VR 1/750s ISO200 f/4@400mm.





Cheers
Marc

That would have been an amazing sight! Great job keeping it all in focus.

Pic Number One is a great capture. Like it a lot. Number Two looks like it has been HDR effected.

Looks like a good day out.

Jase

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hrpremier wrote:Number Two looks like it has been HDR effected.

No, just a tad over sharpened. They both are.

gstark wrote:

hrpremier wrote:Number Two looks like it has been HDR effected.

No, just a tad over sharpened. They both are.

Sorry Gary, your wrong.
No USM was used on #1.
#2 had some highlights/shadows used, and was used to tell the story only

Cheers
Marc

marc wrote:

gstark wrote:

hrpremier wrote:Number Two looks like it has been HDR effected.

No, just a tad over sharpened. They both are.

Sorry Gary, your wrong.
No USM was used on #1.
#2 had some highlights/shadows used, and was used to tell the story only

What processing did you apply to reduce the sizes of the images for web display? There seems to be some minor haloing around the top of the head of the bird in image #1, and along the back of the retriever in #2, just forward of the tail.

Perhaps the reduction processing/compression has introduced what I think I'm seeing?

gstark wrote:
What processing did you apply to reduce the sizes of the images for web display? There seems to be some minor haloing around the top of the head of the bird in image #1, and along the back of the retriever in #2, just forward of the tail.

Perhaps the reduction processing/compression has introduced what I think I'm seeing?

CS3 - Image resize - Bicubic sharper- down to approx 800x600 "Save as" jpg as usual.

Ok, Marc,

Let's go back over this again, shall we?

gstark wrote:No, just a tad over sharpened. They both are.

marc wrote:Sorry Gary, your wrong.

marc wrote:CS3 - Image resize - Bicubic sharper- down to approx 800x600 "Save as" jpg as usual.

gstark wrote:Ok, Marc,

Let's go back over this again, shall we?

gstark wrote:No, just a tad over sharpened. They both are.

marc wrote:Sorry Gary, your wrong.

marc wrote:CS3 - Image resize - Bicubic sharper- down to approx 800x600 "Save as" jpg as usual.

And I said...... "no USM"

marc wrote:

gstark wrote:Ok, Marc,

Let's go back over this again, shall we?

gstark wrote:No, just a tad over sharpened. They both are.

marc wrote:Sorry Gary, your wrong.

marc wrote:CS3 - Image resize - Bicubic sharper- down to approx 800x600 "Save as" jpg as usual.

And I said...... "no USM"

And where did I say USM? I merely said there was too much sharpening, and you have confirmed that there was some sharpening applied, at some point, in the processing that was applied to these images.

Over-sharpened means exactly that, regardless of the means by which sharpening has been applied.

Fantastic shots!!
Not a trace of over-sharpening to be seen in my opinion.