Ugly Duck - Nikon D70 w/300mm
posted by Dolph Brust at 6:11 PM
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Wednesday, July 13, 2005
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3 Comments:
Dolph, you're not kidding, that is an ugly duck! What kind of duck is it? Is it a mutant of some kind?
The long telephoto with its shallow depth-of-field really gave a nice, blur to the background.
This picture has the potential to be better than it is now. You need to adjust the levels a bit, then apply some sharpening. I opened it up in Photoshop, and noticed that the colorspace used is Adobe RGB. If you plan to show this on the web, you should convert the picture to the SRGB colorspace, otherwise, the computer monitor will not accurately show the picture's colors.
If you'd like, I can post a version of this picture that I adjusted a bit. Alternatively, you can play with it a little yourself to see if you can improve the look a little.
Keep up the good work, and the posts to FPCF! We all really enjoy seeing your pictures!
--Warren
Dolph, I forgot to mention that if you prefer not to have to post-process your shots as much, you may want to look into changing some of your D70's settings. Not sure if you can do this on the D70, but check the colorspace setting to see if you can change it in the camera to use SRGB. Also, check the camera's sharpening setting, you may want to bump it up a tad.
There are tons of other things that you can do either to the settings or manually, that I'm sure you'll find as you use the D70 more.
--Warren
I was just going to post a note saying that is one ugly duck!! Nice close up profile focusing on the main subject and no other distractions in the background.
I have a D70 myself and I know that Tony does also. What lens did you use with this shot? Another option you can use that I have been using lately is shooting in RAW so you can do a lot of processing after with white balance, color, sharpness etc.
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