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(Message started by: Anguslau on Dec 6^th, 2004, 6:03pm)

Title: Purple Heron (草鷺) inflight
Post by Anguslau on Dec 6^th, 2004, 6:03pm

ok, hope this one is a slightly more interesting... ;D
It flew across the pond twice without warning but never landed, captured several frames by relfex action. But only this one is reasonably sharp. :(

Purple Heron (草鷺)
Mai Po (米埔)
3/12/2004
1D Mark II, EF600+1.4x
f/5.6, 1/800s, iso500
http://www.pbase.com/anguslau/image/37183177.jpg

Title: Re: Purple Heron (草鷺) inflight
Post by Hendrix on Dec 6^th, 2004, 6:08pm

Good , :)

for my teast , I will use S curver to made more brighter on it body ;)

Title: Re: Purple Heron (草鷺) inflight
Post by me_domchan on Dec 6^th, 2004, 6:32pm

:D :D :D :D :D

Interesting! ;D

Title: Re: Purple Heron (草鷺) inflight
Post by Anguslau on Dec 6^th, 2004, 6:41pm

Thanks for the suggestion, Hendrix. :)
I found that I have a tendency to do less and less adjustments nowadays. Often after doing some adjustments, I am not satisfied with the color, the contrast or the overall look of the image. Agree that the image is a bit dark. But after trying several ways to increase brightness, I left it almost untouched. Perhaps my editing skills had been deterioating... ??? :-[ :P

Title: Re: Purple Heron (草鷺) inflight
Post by Hendrix on Dec 6^th, 2004, 7:02pm

simple S curves :)

http://www.imacguru.com/forum/userimages/200412/000curves.jpg

Title: Re: Purple Heron (草鷺) inflight
Post by Anguslau on Dec 6^th, 2004, 7:20pm

Tried again. I think this does look better after applying an S curve to boost brightness and contrast. Color saturation was also increased as a side effect...

http://www.pbase.com/anguslau/image/37186330.jpg

Title: Re: Purple Heron (草鷺) inflight
Post by KK Hui on Dec 6^th, 2004, 7:57pm

Talking about reflex, this comes from experience!!!! ;D

A great PH shot that I'd like to have in my file too, Angus!
You did justice to this shot to repost it, I like the slight increase in contrast and brightness ...

KK Hui ARPS
www.geocities.com/kkhui_001