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Gustav Miller
{K:309} 10/13/2005
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Hi Jim,
thank you very much for your workflow with CS2. I am still working with PS 5.5 and it seems very good for my working with images. You certainly go to a lot of trouble after you have taken the picture....(are you taking pictures digitally or have you still got some free time? ha,ha,ha...) This is what a teacher for digital photography said to me the other day...Some thruthin it.
By the way, I fully agree with Alastair Bell and his comment concerning the 2x converter. I am using a 1.4x converter and do consider this piece of glass the better one...Maybe you get a chance to try it and find out for yourself. At the same time it a MUST to keep the chip free from dust and the lenses perfectly clean to get the best possible results.Last not least, I suggest you use mirror up position whenever possible to eliminate any vibrations when you release the shutter. My ISO setting is usually ISO 100 and most of the time I use manual shutter and manual focusing.
Should you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask.
Keep well and have a wonderful day.
Best regards,
Gustav
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Dave Stacey
{K:150877} 10/12/2005
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Excellent shot of the woodpecker, Jim!
Dave.
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James Bambery
{K:13421} 10/11/2005
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Gustav,
when I upgraded to CS2, I failed to set the history property to collect my information of what I did.( I have corrected that now:) In a nutshell, I used layers for all of my corrections. Used threshold to find my bright and dark points and then set them with levels. Used individual RGB curves, used hue and saturation, Duplicated layer and used highlight and shadows to pull out detail, used curves again (Main) to add contrast and brightness. fine tuned with contrast and brightness. Used duplicate layer to sharpen. Changed image size, converted to rgb, converted to 8 bits and saved for the web. Had to reduce to about 85% to meet usefilm requirements.
Hope this helps:)
Jim
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James Bambery
{K:13421} 10/10/2005
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My pleasure Gustav, thanks for responding. Try to get it to you this evening. Please call me Jim, thats what my friends call me:)
Jim
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James Bambery
{K:13421} 10/10/2005
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My pleasure Gustav, thanks for responding. Try to get it to you this evening.
Jim
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Gustav Miller
{K:309} 10/10/2005
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Hello James,
increased color saturation slightly and sharpened in LAB very little.
Maybe you can let me know your workflow on this image if possible at all. You can send me an e-mail:
gustav-miller@web.de
Kind regards,
Gustav
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James Bambery
{K:13421} 10/10/2005
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Hi Gustav, I really would like to know what you did to enhance my woodpecker. If you do not mind could you please reply and let me know. I'm always trying to learn and I like what you did:) My previous reply was just a guess.
Jim
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Margaret Sturgess
{K:49403} 10/10/2005
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Great colours and textures James you are treating us to so many lovely woodpeckers. I saw one last week, got a couple of shots off, with Dens big lense but they weren't any good
Margaret
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Alison DuFlon
{K:36566} 10/10/2005
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Wonderful shot, I love his pose and the composition of your shot. Alison
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James Bambery
{K:13421} 10/9/2005
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Nice Seyed, I like how you trimmed the branches on the left. Looks good. BTW, welcome to usefilm:)
Jim Bambery
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James Bambery
{K:13421} 10/9/2005
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Nice Saeyed, I like how you trimmed the branches on the left. Looks good. BTW, welcome to usefilm:)
Jim Bambery
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Peter Daniel
{K:33866} 10/9/2005
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Wonderful Photograph James, Great colors, clarity and Composition.
Thanks for sharing?
GOD Bless?
Peter Daniel
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Seyed Babak Musavi
{K:496} 10/9/2005
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Dear James
Nice shot but What do you think about my suggest crope for your photo?
Babak
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James Bambery
{K:13421} 10/9/2005
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Thanks Alastair. I agree with you but I'm using canon "L" glass with a f/2.8 aperture (so I'm only losing one stop of light and at f/5.6 it still pulls things in pretty good and crisp. Got to make sure that 4 pieces of glass are good and clean all the time too;) along with the extender and it helps alot. Thanks for the wonderful comment
Jim
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James Bambery
{K:13421} 10/9/2005
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Thanks Gustav, yes I do notice a slight difference. It looks like you manipulated it a bit more with curves or increased the contrast a bit to darken up the bird a bit. It does look better. Thanks for taking the time to play with it.
Jim
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Gustav Miller
{K:309} 10/9/2005
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Hi James,
this is a wonderful wildlife image.No it is not too dark on my perfectly calibrated monitor. Did a little bit to the image and hope you notice a slight difference although I had to bring the quality down from 12 to 9 to comply with the rules 500 pixels and 120k...Hope you do like it.
Best regards,
Gustav
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Alastair Bell
{K:29571} 10/9/2005
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This is wonderful James. I can't believe how sharp it is given the 2x was used as well - my own experiences with 2x extenders have almost always been less than satisfactory....
Good strong colours and excellent composition. It looks as though you were shooting through some fairly dense undergrowth there too making this all the better!
Superb..
Alastair
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Laurie Gould
{K:11942} 10/9/2005
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Great capture. It's funny, I saw one yesterday when I was out and about and snapped a few pictures. Mine didn't come out nearly as nice as this one though. The details and colors are wonderful. well done. :)
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Roberto Okamura
{K:22851} 10/9/2005
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Beautiful composition Jim!
Excellent captute!
Congrats!
Roberto.
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ARMANDO ALCÁZAR
{K:42404} 10/9/2005
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