Posted by benjamin (singapore, Singapore) on 28 January 2007 in Animal & Insect and Portfolio.
they were having this ermz.... picnic? outside my sch today. happened to see them on my way out. good thing had a cam with me... if only this had been a somewhat cleaner shot... hope your enjoy it=P
o yea.. im still not very sure about shooting b&w. seem to be having alot of problems playing with contrast... will be posting a series of B&W this week. todays and 2moro will be birds. then i ve got afew macro shots of mosquitoes. havent decided about after than. most probably still objects. please lemme noe wad yr think=P thnx
you've got a cool school to be studying near those birds =D
28 Jan 2007 2:59am
Sunny scene!
28 Jan 2007 3:16am
hmm just thinking if the leaves werent there and there was more contrast between the toucan's beak and the lizard in it the pic wld be better :D
28 Jan 2007 3:27am
haha!! that's a lizard in its beak... aww!!!
28 Jan 2007 3:28am
Love their poses!
28 Jan 2007 5:07am
AWESOME benjamin!
28 Jan 2007 5:35am
You caught an awsome photo of these birds having a snack Benjamin! Which program are you editing with? The background is too bright - playing with the basic brightness and contrast doesn't help much with that kind of a sky. You need something with a histogram so you can move the different areas of light and dark up and down. Right now I am doing it the easy way - "Adobe Lightroom Beta 4". It's a shame but its due to expire on February 28th when it goes on sale. But I've had all the Beta's to try it for a good long time now. It will seem much slower when I go back to editing with Photoshop. You could try it for a little while - very easy interface. After importing photos - click on Develop. A panel will come up on the right with all the controls with "sliders" under the histogram and for all the other color adjustments, etc. Then when you think it looks right, go to the file menu and Export back to a folder you choose.
28 Jan 2007 6:17am
@Anne: thnx anne=) ermz.. i didnt edit this particular photo cos din really noe what i shld do with it.. adjusting the saturation and contrast only made the bird on the right look terrible.. all thnx to iso 200 on a panasonic cam. haha. so decided to leave it as it is. but if not im using nikon free ware for most of my pics. think its called.. nikon editor. cos no $ to get ps or anything like tt. ok. ill dl that and try it out. hope they have a mac version. thanx lots for the help!
great capture - you could probably add a little contrast to bring out the black colors a bit more
28 Jan 2007 7:04am
@Jason Kravitz: hmmz. i tried that. but the grain on the face of the one on the right cam out so much. was just terrible. hate the nr on this cam (was using an FZ5). but at least it had the zoom to get in this close. thnx for the suggestion=P
That's were my lizard went. :)
28 Jan 2007 10:47am
a wonderful (but gruesome) moment to capture! Very well spotted, Benjamin.
28 Jan 2007 12:49pm
Cool shot!
28 Jan 2007 2:38pm
A perfect nature shot is a very difficult matter. This one is excellent. You have catched the moment with very precision. Great work.
28 Jan 2007 5:20pm
I'd shoot colour and put a channels adjustment layer if in photoshop. Seems to give the most control, but can be tricky to get it good. Shooting black and white doesn't give you anything more than shooting colour and converting.
30 Jan 2007 3:31am
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