Nice thought! To most its just a bird flapping wings, but to its mate, its sight of beauty and that attraction proliferates continuation of the species.
I agree with Ryan, its a little too dark for me as well.
Bob
Steve, nice subject and great action capture. If this is the brightened image then I'd encourage you to take to to another level and get your whites whiter & brighter on this (in PS, using levels, set your white point with the white eye dropper tool, and the black one for your black). You'll gain wonderful contrast and this will really pop. I'd prefer a different crop personally; he looks a little tightly boxed in here. Good luck!!
Thanks a ton for the pointers in PS. I didn't know that trick with levels. I also pulled the crop back a bit. Both I think improved it a bunch. I really appreciate the help that people give in this forum and that you in particular are always so positive and helpful.
Hi Steve
You may know this one already but in levels if you click on the black and white triangles on the histogram as well as holding down the ALT key on your keyboard you will get a shadow and highlights threshhold view. This allows you to identify and chose where clipping occurs.
Take care
Mark
Beautiful picture Steve.
Didn’t see the previous versions but whatever adjustments you did worked beautifully.
She really knows how to make herself look very attractive!
Thanks a ton for the pointers in PS. I didn't know that trick with levels. I also pulled the crop back a bit. Both I think improved it a bunch. I really appreciate the help that people give in this forum and that you in particular are always so positive and helpful.
Thanks again for the PS help, Mark and Beverly. In my normal post-processing I use Aperture for RAW conversion, contrast, saturation, highlights, shadows, and levels. Then I use CS3 for cloning, layers, and sharpening. So I haven't used CS3 for levels much at all. You comments were very helpful. Thank you and jban99 for your kind words about the shot as well.
Edited by Steve Spencer on Nov 04, 2007 at 05:18 PM GMT
Thanks for your words of encouragement. I took the shot from a bridge over the river they were swimming in. I don't think they noticed me. I was about 20 to 30 feet away and I used my 70-200mm f/4L IS at 200mm with my 1.6X crop factor this would be a full frame equivalent of about 320mm. My experience with swans is if they notice you they often try to run you off, so it is a lot easier to get off shots if they don't notice you. Thanks again for your comments.
Thanks for your kind words. I wish I could have left a little more room at the top, but she raised out the water pretty fast, so this was the best I could do to adjust. Thanks again,
Thanks for your words of encouragement. I took the shot from a bridge over the river they were swimming in. I don't think they noticed me. I was about 20 to 30 feet away and I used my 70-200mm f/4L IS at 200mm with my 1.6X crop factor this would be a full frame equivalent of about 320mm. My experience with swans is if they notice you they often try to run you off, so it is a lot easier to get off shots if they don't notice you. Thanks again for your comments.
Thanks for the info Steve, it's good to know for future reference how they react when approached.
-Nick
Thanks for your words of encouragement. I took the shot from a bridge over the river they were swimming in. I don't think they noticed me. I was about 20 to 30 feet away and I used my 70-200mm f/4L IS at 200mm with my 1.6X crop factor this would be a full frame equivalent of about 320mm. My experience with swans is if they notice you they often try to run you off, so it is a lot easier to get off shots if they don't notice you. Thanks again for your comments.
Thanks for the info Steve, it's good to know for future reference how they react when approached.
-Nick
