Your opinions please!
- Thread starter Marilynne
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crisscross
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half way between!!! The neck feathers are coming out better on the lower one, but you have lost the colour detail on the beak and the veg is getting a touch over-boiled
Phillydog1958
Senior Member
Yea, nice shots. I'd also prefer a shot exposed between the 2 you have. But, if I had to pick one, I'd go with the first. The darker, slightly underexposed background allows the bird to almost pop off the page.
RickSawThat
Senior Member
I like the darker one. If it was mine on the computer I would boost the detail in the highlights and add a little pop to the eye. I would also consider actually darkening the foilage in the background a bit.
Nikon Photographer
Senior Member
Out of the two, I'd go for the top one, I hope you don't mind but I did a little work on it, took me around 5 min's, just adjusted the midtones in the levels settings and upped the saturation a touch ...
AntrimHills
Senior Member
I'd photoshop the second bird on to the first background :¬)
Don Kuykendall_RIP
RIP :(
Got to go with the first one. Color just does not look good on #2
Out of the two, I'd go for the top one, I hope you don't mind but I did a little work on it, took me around 5 min's, just adjusted the midtones in the levels settings and upped the saturation a touch ...
Very nice job on the touch-ups. It has an almost 3D effect to it. Nicely done.
SamSpade1941
Senior Member
My vote is for the first one it is a very nice shot and looks very natural with the right amount of light.
Out of the two, I'd go for the top one, I hope you don't mind but I did a little work on it, took me around 5 min's, just adjusted the midtones in the levels settings and upped the saturation a touch ...
Great job! I'm only starting out (D5100 and my experience are 3 weeks old) and I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing!
Marilynne
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You are correct. I like the bird detail better but not the pond apple. The brightness of the pond apple is distracting.
Marilynne
Nikon Photographer
Senior Member
Well if that's the quality of the shots you are getting after only 3 weeks, your doing a cracking job !, are you using Jpeg or Raw ? taking the shot on Raw and converting it afterwards will give you a much better result than letting the camera process the image.
Thanks! I'm using JPEG. I've heard of RAW, but I guess I didn't get that far in the reference manual yet. I'll have to read up on it.