The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.
Description
Just having fun at the feeders this morning!
Specific Feedback
All comments welcome!
Technical Details
This is for the Nuthatch – others are similar. NR in LR now – the new version is amazing, and that allows ridiculous ISOs and more DOF, but wants a more distant BG for the creamy textures. Not much done but NR.
Critique Template
Use of the template is optional, but it can help spark ideas.
The others are getting there, but Gold Medal definitely to the nuthatch! You’ve started a project on Avian Gymnastics. The NR is excellent for that ISO. A great view of the Woodpecker also, showing its red blaze to perfection. Super series, Diane.
Interesting that the LR algorithm is catching up, though my main issue with it was it’s slowness. Hopefully, that’s improved as well, though with my computer it’s still going to take awhile regardless of the software.
Three excellent images. I really like having the juvenile and adult nuthatches to compare and it makes a ice little story.
Thanks, @Mike_Friel and @Dennis_Plank! The new LR NR takes about 30 sec on my machine (which was supplanted by a faster one shortly after I got it). I need to do some careful comparisons with Topaz but it seems to be free of the occasional problems Topaz had with some areas being not as well reduced. It definitely does not have the issue with colors being smeared by the Topaz Severe Noise algorithm. That would have been a problem with the Woodpecker’s red cap here.
It can be batch processed and I’ll experiment with running that on a filmstrip after a cull and when I’m away from the computer. As an adjustment in LR it’s completely reversible.
What a fantastic series! I love them for their joyfulness and cheeky gravity-defying poses. Just wonderful.
I’ve messed with the NR in Lr recently and it’s pretty good - I find myself going to plug ins less and less. Is anyone experimenting with adding RAW detail in first and then doing NR and sharpening? I messed with it a little, but not a ton.
Thanks, @Kris_Smith! I’d love to hear what anyone else has found about the new NR. Since it’s now in the raw adjustments, I’ve assumed the order doesn’t matter – that I could do it first then bring up darks (which would add some noise) with the same result as doing those steps in the reverse order. (I think that’s what you were referring to?) I tried it a couple of times and didn’t see any difference.
Delightful series of images of birds hanging from branches. I get nuthatches to do this, but even the woodpeckers don’t do it here.
Apparently, we are within the range of many different types of woodpeckers. I have seen the pilleated woodpecker, but did not have my camera with me when I saw it. I keep my eyes open though. Keep posting your enjoyable images.
David Schoen.
Thanks, @David_Schoen, @glennie, @Peter_Morrissey and @Allen_Sparks! David, these guys (Acorn Woodpeckers) are natural clowns. And the birds were, of course, tricked into acrobatics to try to figure out how to get to a suet feeder. Later I saw a Scrub Jay completely upside down but missed the shot.
