Dave_E wrote:
Joshua when I look at your stuff I think of the old Tina Turner song You're Simply The Best. Your shots are tack sharp with a beautiful 3D look to them. I don't know what you do in processing but it's lovely. I think your falcon has a crush on you. She doesn't take her eyes off you and seems to give you the old air show slow passes that are beautiful for wing arrangement and detail. The over the shoulder look in #7 is priceless.
Dave
Dave, thank you very much for your kind words! I am very flattered you like the images there. Yes, that female peregrine falcon, a mother of 3 chicks that season was in a flirty mood that morning .
Oh my gosh Joshua what a incredible set of images! Loving the isolation and #6 is killer and kudos for the most unique image of #7.............sure YGMV on these
gannis wrote:
@AGeoJO@ Incredible set of images! loved it!
Thank you very much for your kind words, Gannis!
CH3NO2 wrote:
Absolutely stunning set of images. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you very much, Charles!
Didn’t you use to live in California? I believe we met for a purchase at my office and you told me about some burrowing owls in Ontario. That was easily 12-15 years ago... If I mistook you for another person, I apologize and please disregard the second part of the comment here.
Karl Witt wrote:
Oh my gosh Joshua what a incredible set of images! Loving the isolation and #6 is killer and kudos for the most unique image of #7.............sure YGMV on these
Karl
Karl, I am very happy you like the images! Thank you very much for your kind words and vote.
These are amazing, beautiful shots! So well captured.
I just have one small nit. On my monitor some of the images have a distracting white outline at the edges of the falcon against the sky. Maybe the sharpening was a little overdone on these?
Bryan Crowe wrote:
Wonderful work! Loving the last image with the look over the shoulder.
Thank you for sharing,
Bryan
Thank you very much, Bryan!
jdc562 wrote:
These are amazing, beautiful shots! So well captured.
I just have one small nit. On my monitor some of the images have a distracting white outline at the edges of the falcon against the sky. Maybe the sharpening was a little overdone on these?
Thank you very much, jdc562! The ironic thing is, those images were not sharpened much. When I imported the files onto LR, although the default LR setting was +40, I put the slider to 0. I did run the files through Topaz Denoise AI and there, I did put the sharpening even less than the default setting. In terms of sharpening, that's it. But when I converted them to JPG for web presentation from LR, I did put the sharpening at low and not even at medium, let alone at high. I believe that what you noticed is JPG artifact.
tshore wrote:
Spectacular captures. #1 and #2 especially.
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