Canon - Nikon - Others: TEAM CHALLENGE - Month ending 31st May

[Brigitte]

one for Team Nikon.

This little girl is so cute....
and the other kids as well

[Dave Humphries]

Team Nikon - Right time, right place theme;



Heron against reflected sunset.
Nikon D5000 + Sigma 18-250 at 250mm
1/1500s @ f6.3, ISO800

Note the mosquitos glinting in the sunlight!
The dark reflections are from a bridge in the background above.

[Dave Humphries]

Team Nikon



My friend the Heron again, from the lit side alittle later
Nikon D5000 + Sigma 18-250 at 250mm
1/180s @ f6.3, ISO2000

[Colin Southern]

Hi Dave,

Just wondering if you'd given any thought to blatting some of those small spots in the water, and lifting the levels a touch with a curve? (and possibly a gentle sharpen?)

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Colin,

I did blat some spots, which pic are you thinkng of in particular?

Both had levels tweaks, but not 'curved' I admit
They have also both had a gentle sharpen (at final resolution posted to PBase), but obviously too gentle!
I don't like seeing the black and white ridges around things

I haven't sorted my Nikon workflow yet, I am finding I like Nikon's Transfer and ViewNX, it considerably streamlines what I did before ACR+Elements.

Unfortunately ACR5.3 doesn't know about the D5000, so I can't use it anymore (at least until they catch up with 5.4).

So these went nef - tif (8 bit) - PSE6 - jpg.
If you know how to get ACR (without PS CS3/4) to open a tif, let me know.

BTW, I was amazed what you did in 30 secs with that squirrel.

Cheers,

[Colin Southern]

I did blat some spots, which pic are you thinkng of in particular?

The latest one. I have it a quick tweak - might have over-done it a touch (not sure what the bird is supposed to look like, and the image is very low-res)

Both had levels tweaks, but not 'curved' I admit
They have also both had a gentle sharpen (at final resolution posted to PBase), but obviously too gentle!

I just gave it two applications of 250 / 0.2 / 0 USM and brought the shadows up a little (and killed a few spots).

Unfortunately ACR5.3 doesn't know about the D5000, so I can't use it anymore (at least until they catch up with 5.4).

If your shooting RAW you should be able to convert to DNG and "proceed as per normal" (which is my preferred route anyway - vastly streamlines the transfer and renaming process - and gets rid of pesky sidecar files).

BTW, I was amazed what you did in 30 secs with that squirrel.

Thanks - not hard though - just a case of knowing what sharpening settings to use. I probably mislead a little there - I think I spent an additional 15 seconds rolling back the sharpening on a few bits that were previously over-sharpened!

[peterb533]

Team Canon

[crisscross]

Looks as if you had some fun Peter; is this your daughter? (looks a good match for my grand-daughter and am slightly jealous as I was out-of-commission for the snow this year)

[peterb533]

Chris,

You flatter me, the 'Junior' only relates to my status here, this is actually my granddaughter, Maya, seeing snow for the first time. I was 'working' from home that day.

Peter

[crisscross]

Team Nikon - getting a bit unbalanced aren't we? This really is Nikon after previous 'own goal'

[crisscross]

Team Nikon from same studio (huh) session; not sure if I prefer this statesman pose or the previous one giving the alarm call hence technically flawed from slight movement, partially corrected with FocusMagic

[crisscross]

Chris,

You flatter me, the 'Junior' only relates to my status here, this is actually my granddaughter, Maya, seeing snow for the first time. I was 'working' from home that day.

Peter

OK Peter, only you are still 'junior' if you pretend to work (unless you refuse to retire); I gave up the pretence about 4 years ago. I am afraid grandchild pics are off limits, but can give you a gallery password code if you stick around here for a bit.

[JonathanC]

Team Nikon



Joe rocked back to be in the right place at the right time, avoiding a painful kick to the face.

[Raycer]

This little girl is so cute....
and the other kids as well

Thanks Brigitte. Are you talking about the little baby on my avatar? That's the same gal a year ago

[aia21]

Another one for team Canon.



He really does like ice cream...

Best regards,

Anton

[Antonio Correia]

Colin please tell me if I have understood correctly what you want when you look at this image.
I was bended looking through the camera trying to get a shot of the road when this young fellow stood in front of me looking the way you can see.
I took the opportunity and bang !
Is this kind of pictures you were expecting ?

[Antonio Correia]

Or is it more this kind of moments ?

[Colin Southern]

Colin please tell me if I have understood correctly what you want when you look at this image.
I was bended looking through the camera trying to get a shot of the road when this young fellow stood in front of me looking the way you can see.
I took the opportunity and bang !
Is this kind of pictures you were expecting ?

Hi Antonio,

It's fine

[The Blue Boy]

Taken in Kenya a few years back at Voi lodge in Tsavo. I can't remember if it was tsavo East or West.

[Colin Southern]

Team: Canon