gerhardt Workshop Photos Received

Title: A youngster feeding...Canon EOS 20D

A youngster feeding... (84) *
gerhardt

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Photoshop Elements

Evelynn

(12122) [2006-01-15 16:52:20] [3]

I tried again and this time figured out how to get the yellow and then the resulting red cast out. I like it better. I used Selective color to take the yellow and magenta casts out of the neutrals and out of the yellows. I also played with Color Variations...added a little blue and darkened the shadows. I learned a lot by doing it. Thanks : )

Title: The little, big one...Canon EOS 20D

The little, big one... (64)
gerhardt

(11529)

Neat Image

hummingbird24

(64) [2006-01-14 07:51:30] [4]

I ran this amazing shot through NI to see if it would help with the bit of noise in the BG.

I think it did.

Hope you like it.

Anna-Lu

Title: Recycling mine dumps...Canon EOS 20D

Recycling mine dumps... (39)
gerhardt

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Crop

andtine (38) [2006-01-12 15:44:03] [3]

Cropped with less sky (maybe too little!) and a bit of extra USM

Andrew

A bright 2006... (42)
gerhardt

(11529)

Add on...

gerhardt

(11529) [2006-01-02 16:08:56]

Just to show you the size of the critter.

Little known... (46)
gerhardt

(11529)

Elements 3

marhowie

(34329) [2005-12-13 16:59:51] [1]

Hello Gerhard, I gave it a weeny-bit of USM @ amount 75, .3 pixels and 0 threshold.
Howard

(11529)

RAW conversion

AdrianW

(708) [2005-11-12 09:34:16] [3]

ACR 3.2

Adjust
WB: As shot

Exposure: +1.2
Shadows: 2
Brightness: Auto
Contrast: Auto
Saturation: +59

Detail
Sharpness: 50
Luma Smoothing: 0
Color NR: 15

Lens
CA Red/Cyan: +6
CA Blue/Yell: -32

Curve
Tone Curve: Strong Contrast

PS CS2

Image size 25% Bicubic Sharper
Smart Sharpen: 25%, 8.7px.

New Layer

Smart Sharpen: 50%, 0.8px

Knocked out the edges with a soft edged eraser to prevent haloes

Flattened

New Layer

Curves to heavily accentuate low end and thus bring out eye detail

Eraser to all except the eye.

Flattened

> 8bit

Save For Web

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RAW photo

hummingbird24

(64) [2005-11-09 20:15:20] [5]

Well, you said it wasn't going to be easy, and you were right, Gerhard.

I have been around this thing several times today, and this is the one I came up with.

Now that I have seen the rest, I should delete it, however, that would be counterproductive, so here it is.

Adjusted White Balance to As Shot.

Converted to PhotoShop CS, then cropped and adjusted levels slightly. Cloned out area around lower beak.

Used polygonal lasso tool on eye, and highlighted it.

Put through shadows/highlights to try and bring out more of the feather details in the darker areas: Amount 25%, Tonal Width 24%, oops, forgot the radius...

Created a duplicate layer, a high pass filter of a radius of 10 pixels, then layer style, to soft light at 85%. Then flattened layers.

Did USM, then sharpened once more.

Used blur tool at 100% to clean around the bird to chest area and across below tail.

Then ran through Neat Image to filter and sharpen slightly again.

I think that is it. Now I will read all of yours and cry... just kidding.

At least at this stage you will know that I am in desperate need of tutelage, thank you for this wonderful idea!

Anna-Lu

(11529)

PDP

(11749) [2005-11-09 18:06:11] [9]

Hi Gerhard, here's what I have done.

Capture One LE 3.7.1 on RAW image

Exposure compensation + 0.5
Contrast compensation + 13
Colour saturation 20%

Curves
Locked the midtones, and adjusted until I was happy with it.

Colour balance 5850 K

Warmed a little

Sharpness +118
Threshold 0

Colour noise suppression 0
Banding suppresion 0

Converted to TIFF

Photoshop Elements 3.0

Cropped
Resized
Darkened Highlights 27%
Lightened Shadows 12%

Neat Image filter
all standard settings except pre loaded filter "Remove only half the noise"

USM 150%, 0.3r, 0 Threshold

cloned out some debris.

Added frame and text

Converted to jpg and saved at around 140 kB

That's it, I hope you like it.

(11529)

DPP software & Elements 3

marhowie

(34329) [2005-11-09 10:59:14] [7]

Uploaded raw file from your link. I cropped & flipped the image putting the subject back in the frame a bit. Highlight adjust elements 3 < 25% & shadow very little. Intellisharpen II @ amount 80 with NR checked. Resized to the 200K TN limit. Finally, USM @ amount 100 & .3 pixel radius for viewing. There is some grain apparent in the darker feathers. Unavoidable with significant highlight reduction.
Howard

(11529)

Gerts version

ellis49

(28665) [2005-11-09 10:30:35] [8]

Hi Gerhard.
Open it in Adobe-bridge.
Pressed CTRL+U to turn out the auto selection from adobe.
Use the crop tool in custom. Use the pipette for WB, point at the whites part, 5150K.
Set exposure to + 0.6, Set sharpen to 0, leave the rest of the parameters.
Colour space; adobe RGB, 16 bit/channel, resolution 240.

In PS CS2.
First sharpen with Nik sharpener PRO2, pre-sharpen raw 40%.
Use Threshold under the Layer-menu (You got a new layer) to find out the whitest and blackest point. Mark them with the tool; colour sample tool. Delete the threshold layer.
Open curves in the layer-palette, use the white and black pipette and click in the markings.
Remove the markings by clicking clear.
Now the picture should be correct exposure and right colour.
Ctrl+shift+e the make one layer.
Use the shadows/highlight tool the get the wings a little more light for details.
15 % amount shadow and 5 % amount midtune contrast for some more punch.
Resize the picture to 794/480/ 72. Select canvas; add 6 pixels with black to get
a frame outside the picture. Now it’s 800/486.
Convert to lab-colour, use USM 0,3 % pixels, 300% amount in the lightness channel.
Convert back to abobe RGB. Set 8 bit/ channel convert to sRGB for the WEB and save it as JPG.
It’s not so colourful as yours but I think it has some more details in the wings.
And I did not clone out the black thing infront of the beak because I almost never clone away things in my own pictures.

Regards
Gert