Crossbill snapshot

[hillrg]

I have been landscaping in the backyard. I was grabbing a drink of water when I saw this Crossbill in the Garry Oak behind my house.

D2X 500/4 TC14EII 1/250s f/5.6 ISO 100 Matrix metering EV +0.33
crop to 18% of original.

BTW, this was converted using ACR and the ProPhoto RGB color space. In both adobe and sRGB the bill and feathers had blowouts that I could not recover in NC, but I did using ACR and ProPhoto.

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[DiverX]

Man that is one fluffy bird! Neat shot!!

 

[drueter]

Nice shot, Rory!! Very interesting bird!

 

[Kevin Scott]

Nice shot, Rory! I like to catch them when they're ruffling their feathers!

 

[Nikam]

Nice one, Rory! 18% - That D2X sure permits a heavy crop!

Rory, a couple of questions if you don't mind. Did you use 8 or 16 bits per channel when opening in ACR? Do you then convert to 8 bit SRBG for web posting and is there an easy way to do this?

 

[Gale]

Excellent. Good work Rory.

That prophoto can sure bail you out on some things for sure. you know who turned me on to that is Iliah :>))

 

[hillrg]

Nice one, Rory! 18% - That D2X sure permits a heavy crop!

Rory, a couple of questions if you don't mind. Did you use 8 or 16 bits per channel when opening in ACR? Do you then convert to 8 bit SRBG for web posting and is there an easy way to do this?

I presume you are asking if I opened the ACR conversion in photoshop in 16 bits. No, I did not. I would have if my intention was to print or significantly edit in photoshop, but in this case, all I wanted to do was make a file to upload to pbase. I opened the conversion as an 8 bit ProPhoto file, cropped, resized to 800 pixels and converted to sRGB in photoshop. I saved as jpg level 11, although 9 probably would have been sufficient.

If I had wanted to make more changes, such as saturation, curves, brightness in photoshop then I would have converted to 16 bits.

I rarely keep 16 bit photoshop or TIF files around as they used up so much memory. If I have a photo I have made significant photoshop changes and anticipate using again or I have sold said photo, then I will burn the photshop file, with any additional layers. Otherwise, I have the NEF file, so I can always go back and do it again.

 

[Nikam]

Thanks, Rory. That's what I wanted to know.

 

[Flew]

Good catch Rory, and interesting processing info. I'll have to give ACR a look.

Thanks,

 

[jczinn]

Hi Rory, nice shot--but its not a Crossbill, its a House Finch. The bill of the Crossbill is really crossed (and much larger), unlike this bird!

No matter, is a sweet shot!

 

[hillrg]

Hi Rory, nice shot--but its not a Crossbill, its a House Finch. The bill of the Crossbill is really crossed (and much larger), unlike this bird!

No matter, is a sweet shot!

Hi Janet

Funny you should say that. When I took the photo, and before I processed it, I named the folder house finch. However, when I looked at the photo it sure looked like the beak was crossing... must be an optical illusion. Anyway, many thanks for the correction!