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Gorgeous series! The dark background really makes the white egret stand out.Tony Britton said:
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Very nice portrait.scyrene said:An unusually confiding Mediterranean gull. 5Ds, 500+1.4: 700mm, f/5.6, 1/320, ISO 3200 (handheld).
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Heron with tilapia
BCN Heron with tilapia fish by Eric Johnson, on Flickr
BCN Heron with tilapia fish by Eric Johnson, on Flickr
BCN Heron with tilapia fish by Eric Johnson, on FlickrBCN Heron with tilapia fish by Eric Johnson, on Flickr
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scyrene said:An unusually confiding Mediterranean gull. 5Ds, 500+1.4: 700mm, f/5.6, 1/320, ISO 3200 (handheld).
Lovely shot. Since ISO 3200, why not do a little noise reduction on the background. I'm sure it would add just a little extra.
Jack
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Jack Douglas said:scyrene said:An unusually confiding Mediterranean gull. 5Ds, 500+1.4: 700mm, f/5.6, 1/320, ISO 3200 (handheld).
Lovely shot. Since ISO 3200, why not do a little noise reduction on the background. I'm sure it would add just a little extra.
Jack
LOL, thanks. I actually worked on this image pretty hard. I split it into two, masking off the foreground (bird) and applying heavy colour denoise to the background, and then re-merging in Affinity. I also applied some luminance denoise, and masked sharpening in Lightroom. Originally, I was going to do what I normally would now, with an image like this: heavy denoise (chrominance and luminance) on the background, then Gaussian blur, then add in some random grain. But it didn't work, and I preferred the less processed approach.
However even so, in general I much prefer even natural noise to noise reduction, which either posterises or leaves weird wormy artifacts on areas of smooth tone like the background here. Also, moderate noise means that resizing by websites like Flickr and Twitter doesn't cause such ugly jpeg compression artifacts on smooth tones as it does without.
Ultimately it's a matter of taste. But this is ISO 3200, there's gonna be noise. Each to their own.
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scyrene said:Jack Douglas said:scyrene said:An unusually confiding Mediterranean gull. 5Ds, 500+1.4: 700mm, f/5.6, 1/320, ISO 3200 (handheld).
Lovely shot. Since ISO 3200, why not do a little noise reduction on the background. I'm sure it would add just a little extra.
Jack
LOL, thanks. I actually worked on this image pretty hard. I split it into two, masking off the foreground (bird) and applying heavy colour denoise to the background, and then re-merging in Affinity. I also applied some luminance denoise, and masked sharpening in Lightroom. Originally, I was going to do what I normally would now, with an image like this: heavy denoise (chrominance and luminance) on the background, then Gaussian blur, then add in some random grain. But it didn't work, and I preferred the less processed approach.
However even so, in general I much prefer even natural noise to noise reduction, which either posterises or leaves weird wormy artifacts on areas of smooth tone like the background here. Also, moderate noise means that resizing by websites like Flickr and Twitter doesn't cause such ugly jpeg compression artifacts on smooth tones as it does without.
Ultimately it's a matter of taste. But this is ISO 3200, there's gonna be noise. Each to their own.
Would you mind posting an uncrossed version? The noise at 3200 seems to be inconsistent with anything but a pretty heavy crop.
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Taken at the sunset golden hour of warm light.
Juvenile BCN Heron at sunset by Eric Johnson, on Flickr
Juvenile BCN Heron at sunset by Eric Johnson, on Flickr
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