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

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Originally Posted by Raycer

one for Team Nikon.

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

Team Nikon - Right time, right place theme;

http://www.pbase.com/dhumphries/imag...0/original.jpg

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.

Team Nikon

http://www.pbase.com/dhumphries/imag...0/original.jpg

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

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?)

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 :eek:

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,

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Originally Posted by Dave Humphries

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

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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)

http://www.pbase.com/cjsouthern/imag...1/original.jpg

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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!

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

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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).

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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).

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

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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!

Team Canon

http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/8551/mg5164.jpg

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)

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

Team Nikon - getting a bit unbalanced aren't we? This really is Nikon after previous 'own goal':)http://www.pbase.com/crisscross/imag...7/original.jpg

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
http://www.evendine.eclipse.co.uk/images/_dsc3603.jpg

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Originally Posted by 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

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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.

Team Nikon

http://www.gas.uk.net/VR/kick.jpg

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

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Originally Posted by Brigitte

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

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

Another one for team Canon.

http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~aia2...s/IMG_0201.jpg

He really does like ice cream... :D

Best regards,

Anton

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 ?

http://backup.cambridgeincolour.com/...77_Z3gYE-L.jpg

Or is it more this kind of moments ?

http://antoniocorreia.smugmug.com/ph...26_x5vmm-M.jpg

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Originally Posted by 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 ?

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Hi Antonio,

It's fine :)

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

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2286/...1c8ec318fd.jpg

Team: Canon

http://backup.cambridgeincolour.com/...1/original.jpg