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Brian Kersey
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p.1 #1 · A Scrub Jay's Thanksgiving

Just got back from back Cachuma for Thanksgiving and I caught this Scrub Jay having a feast of his own. This is just a taste of the many scrub Jays I photographed. Happy Belated Thanksgiving. I hope your feast was as good as his!

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Nov 25, 2007 at 03:24 AM

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p.1 #2 · A Scrub Jay's Thanksgiving

Hi Brian,

A little flat because the light (or lack there of) but that sure is one fine meal, if you're a bird or a fish

Ken

Nov 25, 2007 at 03:29 AM

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Mr Zoom wrote:
Hi Brian,

A little flat because the light (or lack there of) but that sure is one fine meal, if you're a bird or a fish

Ken

Ken,

Thanks for the comment. I keep having trouble with "flat" looking photos. What can I do in Post Processing to make it "less flat"? I got a lot of others to work with.

Nov 25, 2007 at 03:37 AM

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p.1 #4 · A Scrub Jay's Thanksgiving

good catch Brian....a good place to start to correct flatness is to save/convert from current AdobeRGB to sRGB. AdobeRGB will appear somewhat flat to most browsers. sRGB is pretty much standard

Nov 25, 2007 at 03:53 AM

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Dave In La wrote:
good catch Brian....a good place to start to correct flatness is to save/convert from current AdobeRGB to sRGB. AdobeRGB will appear somewhat flat to most browsers. sRGB is pretty much standard

Dave

I'll be posting some more tomorrow so I will try that when I do. Maybe I'll include a before and after to get a good comparison going on. Thanks for the help

Brian

Nov 25, 2007 at 03:55 AM

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p.1 #6 · A Scrub Jay's Thanksgiving

Brian Kersey wrote:

With just a little extra PP work it will pop quite a bit more than than the original you posted. Example:

Nov 25, 2007 at 04:11 AM

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p.1 #7 · A Scrub Jay's Thanksgiving

Ken

Yes, that looks a lot better. Much more pop. How did you do it? what did you do in PS?

Nov 25, 2007 at 04:16 AM

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p.1 #8 · A Scrub Jay's Thanksgiving

Brian Kersey wrote:
Ken

Yes, that looks a lot better. Much more pop. How did you do it? what did you do in PS?

Mostly just contrast and saturation adjustments with a touch of USM to get the catch light in the eye to show. Don't be afraid to play with them sliders

Ken

Nov 25, 2007 at 04:24 AM

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p.1 #9 · A Scrub Jay's Thanksgiving

I tried some PP the right way (i think)

So here it is...

I think I got it right what do you all think?

Nov 25, 2007 at 04:52 AM

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p.1 #10 · A Scrub Jay's Thanksgiving

nice PP work Brian. I usually also play with the curve function in PS as well.

Nov 25, 2007 at 05:29 AM

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p.1 #11 · A Scrub Jay's Thanksgiving

Ok. I just checked these on my friends cpu and I realized that my monitor is not calibrated correctly. This may be the problem. Is Adobe Gamma a good way to calibrate a "sharp" brand monitor?

Nov 25, 2007 at 11:50 PM


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