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Darwin

Darwin

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Beautiful images, love the low shooting angle and the background. Nicely done!

You might try a touch of highlight recovery on those brighter white breast feathers to bring out some detail in those areas especially in the first and third shots.
 
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DRwyoming said:
Beautiful images, love the low shooting angle and the background. Nicely done!

You might try a touch of highlight recovery on those brighter white breast feathers to bring out some detail in those areas especially in the first and third shots.
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I’ll take a look. I’m curious though if it could be your monitors brightness. On my screen it looks good. No blown highlights and I can see feather detail throughout. Obviously I’m looking at a full scale image at 8000 pixels across.
 
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Darwin said:
I’ll take a look. I’m curious though if it could be your monitors brightness. On my screen it looks good. No blown highlights and I can see feather detail throughout.
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I'm on my laptop now, but when I posted that comment I was on my calibrated BenQ photo editing monitor where I've set the brightness for print processing.

I just scrolled back up and tried lowering screen brightness, it certainly makes the image darker but does not restore the feather detail in the white areas on my MacBook Pro but as I said I'm no longer on my good monitor nor at home.
Obviously I’m looking at a full scale image at 8000 pixels across.
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Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if some of that detail is lost in the image downsizing and jpeg conversion.
 
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@ruley74 They are common this time of the year. They are very small. Many times you won’t even notice them. I happened to be stationary for sometime photographing a very cooperative egret when several of these guys just walked right up next to me.
 
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DRwyoming said:
Beautiful images, love the low shooting angle and the background. Nicely done!

You might try a touch of highlight recovery on those brighter white breast feathers to bring out some detail in those areas especially in the first and third shots.
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@DRwyoming I believe I found the problem with the discrepancy. I do 90% of post-processing in LR and only use PS for more detailed work. I always use my Windows image viewer to downsize for posting and I believe it degrades the color and IQ more than if I had just brought it into PS to resize. Attached is a tight crop of image 3 using PS. You can see much better what I see on my screen. Thanks for the heads-up, in the future I am going to be using PS.
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Darwin said:
@DRwyoming I believe I found the problem with the discrepancy. I do 90% of post-processing in LR and only use PS for more detailed work. I always use my Windows image viewer to downsize for posting and I believe it degrades the color and IQ more than if I had just brought it into PS to resize. Attached is a tight crop of image 3 using PS. You can see much better what I see on my screen. Thanks for the heads-up, in the future I am going to be using PS. View attachment 23955
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Makes sense, the detail is clearly there!

Again, great images with fantastic perspective.
 
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