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Description
I made it back to the rookery this morning. I’ve missed the initial nest-building but there is always some maintenance going on. The Great Egrets are the most dependable for carrying interesting sticks.
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Technical Details
Global tonal work in LR then into PS for just Topaz Denoise and a crop. These are about 60% of the full frame.
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Hi Diane, really nice behavioral captures. I always like seeing the birds carrying sticks this time of year. I like the variety of flight poses you caught. Whites and sharpness look good. I could see adding a tad more space on the right on some of the images to give more space for the bird to fly into and to de-center the bird a bit. Very nice series.
Diane: this is a very enjoyable series as it’s always nice to observe nest building activities. I like the wing position most in image 4 as the wings are fully spread and you’ve captured the shadow of the bird’s head and the stick it was carrying. The whites are well controlled.
Hi Diane
I like the series of frame showing the Egret’s sings unfold as it on collecting nesting material. Rookeries are always great fun to be at. Nice work.
Peter
This is a wonderful set of images Diane. The stick collecting is always great.
Each of the images are sepcial. I really like the first, mainly because of thewing/leg branch position and perhaps the last for the shadow. The whites and blues are gorgeous.
Here’s your stupid question for the day. You, and others, manage to get wonderful series. Identical temperature, contrast, exposure etc. I can see where this happens in ACR, but is there anything in PS that copies the identical adjustments made from one image to the next?
Glennie, there is no such thing as a stupid question! (But there are a lot of stupid answers…) These images were very close to matched in the raw captures, being shot within seconds, in M mode and all in Daylight WB, so I didn’t have to do anything to match the skies or whites here.
But if two images are different in PS and you don’t have the raw files to revert to, you will have to adjust each separately to the best visual match, both for tonalities and colors. Once an image has been rasterized into a PS image, you have lost a lot of overhead for adjustments. For raw images, except for the inherent differences in exposure, you have a much more common starting point for adjusting everything in a set of images. I always save PS images in the same folder as the raw files so I can always go back to a raw file if needed.
In PS, tonalities can be tweaked to some extent with Levels or Curves, or the Craw filter. Then you can try Selective Color to visually match colors. (Using the Color Sampler would give an idea how close you are getting.) For an image like these, where the main issue is with skies not well matched, you could do this on a selection of the sky to avoid contaminating other areas.
There is a Match Color tool under Image > Adjustments but I’ve never used it. I should have a look at it.
