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Little Black Cormorant with brakes ON!

Postby marc on Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:25 pm

While down at my local wetland this morning, I managed this shot of a Little Black Cormorant in lockup mode. :shock:
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. :D

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Re: Little Black Cormorant with brakes ON!

Postby aim54x on Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:27 pm

That would have been an amazing sight! Great job keeping it all in focus.
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Re: Little Black Cormorant with brakes ON!

Postby hrpremier on Thu Jan 22, 2009 3:33 pm

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.

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Re: Little Black Cormorant with brakes ON!

Postby gstark on Thu Jan 22, 2009 3:38 pm

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


No, just a tad over sharpened. They both are. :)
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Re: Little Black Cormorant with brakes ON!

Postby marc on Thu Jan 22, 2009 3:43 pm

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 :wink:

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Re: Little Black Cormorant with brakes ON!

Postby gstark on Thu Jan 22, 2009 3:59 pm

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 :wink:


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?
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Re: Little Black Cormorant with brakes ON!

Postby marc on Thu Jan 22, 2009 4:19 pm

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?


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Re: Little Black Cormorant with brakes ON!

Postby gstark on Thu Jan 22, 2009 5:23 pm

Ok, Marc,

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

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.


:lol: :lol:
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Re: Little Black Cormorant with brakes ON!

Postby marc on Thu Jan 22, 2009 5:27 pm

gstark wrote:Ok, Marc,

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

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.


:lol: :lol:


And I said...... "no USM" :P :P :P
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Re: Little Black Cormorant with brakes ON!

Postby gstark on Thu Jan 22, 2009 5:34 pm

marc wrote:
gstark wrote:Ok, Marc,

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

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.


:lol: :lol:


And I said...... "no USM" :P :P :P


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.
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Re: Little Black Cormorant with brakes ON!

Postby terminator on Sat Jan 24, 2009 5:56 pm

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