Robbrown Workshop Photos Given

Title: Spider Baby Unknown speciesNikon D200

Spider Baby Unknown species (10)
Robbrown

(6054)

Unknown Adult Spider

(6054) [2007-07-13 12:49:49]

This is an image of the unkown adult that turned up in a simular way last year. I hope somebody can put a name to it for me.

Canada

Title: Bunchberry Black and WhiteOLYMPUS E-500

Bunchberry Black and White (8)
BillyGoat

(4561)

Alternative crop

(6054) [2007-06-30 14:36:10]

Hi Tim hope you dont mind I did a little re-cropping to try and strenghten the graphic quality of the image.
Basically I just cropped the image so the four strongest rosets featured more strongly, I also darkened the couple of partially cropped ones so they did not stand out so strongly, then resharpened at 60% only and saved . hope you like the result.
yours Robert

Switzerland

Procambarus clarkii (8)
galasmile (47)

Lightening and Darkening an Image

(6054) [2007-01-08 11:53:08]

Hello Galyna, I thought I would atempt to demostrate what I talked about in my critque.
Having copied and pasted your image into my image editor PS(CS) I enlarged it slightly from 400PX to 600PX just to make it larger.
I think used the shadows and hightlight tool to adjust the bright and dark areas to reveal the hidden details in the dark and bright areas.
if you do not have this you can do it by 1st brightening/lightening the image, then Use the burn/darken tool with a soft edged brush to darken down the bright areas.
Hope you like
Yours Robert

Title: Eurasian CootPanasonic Lumix DMC-FZ50

Eurasian Coot (38)
Hil

(4761)

High Pass filter sharpening

(6054) [2007-01-06 13:15:20] [2] [+]

Hi Hilary is my attempt to improve your image, just remember these all work better with the full size original.
I 1st Copied and pasted into Photo-shop
2nd made a fairly tight selection around the eye,
then went to Image ,adjustments Hue and saturation,
selected Reds from the drop down menu and move the saturation slider to +43 and the Hue one to -4 this seemed I felt to give a more natural colour to the eye.
then to the sharpening.
1st make a duplicate layer via copy,
2nd Go to Filter and from the drop down menu select Other and then High Pass this will open a dialogue box, set the slider to about 10.0 and click OK, then in the Layers palette click on the left hand menu and select Hard light and in the right one marked Opacity click and reduce down till you feel it looks OK usually some where between 30-70% in this case 53%
When you are happy flatten image and use save to web to adjust the file size back to just below 200K
Hope you find this useful yours Robert
if you have any questions please ask

Title: Hanging Around for a Free MealNikon D200

Hanging Around for a Free Meal (6)
Robbrown

(6054)

Alternative Veiw

(6054) [2006-07-22 06:18:03]

This is a top side Veiw of the Bug

United States

Title: Wood DuckPanasonic Lumix DMC-FZ30

Wood Duck (4)
Onokane (28)

alternative framing

(6054) [2006-07-19 12:09:16] [1]

Hi Richard you asked if I thought an oval crop of the image would look good to post. personally I am not a great fan of that type of crop for nature images, but here is an alterbative that is a mix of both and draws the eye to the subject.
I imported the image into my image editor PS cs.
applied shadows and highlights to it to bring up the detail I talked about in my critque.
I then madea plain white layer above the image.
Copy image and paste as new layer above the white layer.
Draw an oval with the Marquetool set to oval with a feather of 60pixels, then select inverse so the out side of the image becomes the selction. In Edit click on clear this will remove the out side of the imges in a fade-out way.Deslect the image at this point.
Then to balance the density of the outer image reselect the the white middle layer and use the opacity slider to fade the white layer allowing the bottom layer to show through adjust till you are happy with the result.
flattern image and resharpen image and use save to web to optimise the file size.
post and hope you like. yours Robert

Fragrant orchid (10)
Robbrown

(6054)

Close-up of the flower

(6054) [2006-07-19 09:02:14]

Taken with the Sigma F2.8 105macro
F16 in AP
1/90sec
ISO400
Still on the Benbo ! but this time the camera mounted on it instead of the lens
again thanks for taking the time to look
yours Robert

Canada

Couple de roselins (6)
LeBonhomme

(239)

Sharpen image

(6054) [2006-07-19 02:56:43] [2] [+]

Hi Gilles, I have attempted to try sharpening your image a fraction to try and lift the look of it.
Method
Open image in Image editor (PS cs)
Applied shadows and highlights to the image, this is purely personal as I like to try and reval as much detail as I can.
High pass filter Sharpening
Make a copy layer of the image
in filters go to Other, select High pass set at 10
in layers pallet select Hard Light from the drop down menu on the left and then reduce the opacity with the slider on the right, adjust this untill the image looks good , some where between 20 and 70%
flatten image
Save as to control image file size
It was at this point I noticed that your image was an unusual size, the images post better if done at 800 largest as you had, but at 72dpi not the 200 you had
hope you like the result yours Robert

Brown hawker (male) (18)
Robbrown

(6054)

Image taken with Sony F707

(6054) [2006-07-13 18:48:28]

This is the same Brown hawker, taken with the Old Sony F707 for you to compare with the result from the Nikon D200 and sigma 105macro.
the only differances between this and the Nikon are that this is handheld and the ISO is 100 and the F stop is only F8.0 (max for the sony) the post processing was exactly the same method as for the Nikon. please compare and let me know what you think
yours Robert

Israel

Quercus ithaburensis (4)
fragman

(10763)

Clone Tool

(6054) [2006-07-10 18:20:05]

Hi ori , having talked about cloning out the rubbish in the image , I thought i had better have a go and see what it looked like. Basically i imported the image into PS and slide the veiw till you could see the individual pixels, then using a soft edged brush in the clone tool I set about removing the items that kept catching my eye other than the subject like the trafic barriers and the flag and power lines.
hope you like what i have atempted, and i am aware that this level of removal classes as major adjustments for the purposes of posting an image.
yours Robert