Goldfinch, chickadee and dragonfly

Vinod Menon · Jun 19, 2005

All shots with the 300 f4 +1.4TC...didn't realize the lens will be useful for insect shots

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Gale · Jun 19, 2005

WOW what spectacular stuff.

i am jealous. I would love to know your PP..

wanna share ???? Please

I'll beg...:>))

greyflash · Jun 19, 2005

Excellent work Vinod. Your composition and color saturation are really nice on these images.

Gilles · Jun 19, 2005

My choice 3-1-2, i really like that tender green background.

Flew · Jun 19, 2005

Very nice Vinod. I like them all.

Anthony747 · Jun 19, 2005

Nice shots...Gatta love that d70!

Anthony

Vinod Menon · Jun 19, 2005

Gale said:
WOW what spectacular stuff.

i am jealous. I would love to know your PP..

wanna share ???? Please

I'll beg...:>))

Thanks Gale!

There is nothing special I do in postprocessing...these are the typical steps in my workflow:

1. I capture the image in RAW format (medium-low tone curve, sharpening NONE)
2. In Nikon Capture, I make minor adjustments to the exposure if needed. Recently I have started trying out the Auto brightness setting in capture. Works good sometimes, sometimes not.
3. If there are greens in the picture, I usually move the Saturation to Enhanced.
4. I export to Photoshop, crop as needed. I then run the FM Intellisharpen plugin (usually at a medium setting).
5. Resize the picture, run another pass of Intellisharpen with the lowest setting, convert to sRGB and run an action to frame it. Then save the jpeg at quality 10 or so.

That's it!

Vinod Menon · Jun 19, 2005

Thanks Gordon, Frank, Gilles and Anthony! Appreciate the comments.

kramp · Jun 19, 2005

Great stuff Vinod, that dragon is very well done as are the others.

Martin

Gale · Jun 19, 2005

Thank you very much..

I may have to just get the FM intellisharp action...

I do pretty much the same.

But yours look much better.

Much appreciated.

Micah · Jun 19, 2005

Superb images. All are favorites!

Mary

mike mac · Jun 19, 2005

Vinod Menon said:
All shots with the 300 f4 +1.4TC...didn't realize the lens will be useful for insect shots

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The finch and dragoenfly are jsut killer shots great job on these

PEPPER PETE · Jun 19, 2005

Great shotsVinod
Pete

Vinod Menon · Jun 19, 2005

Thanks Martin, Mary, Mike and Pete!

SSchex · Jun 19, 2005

Great shots.

Kevin Scott · Jun 19, 2005

Wow, Vinod! That dragonfly shot is really sharp! Nicely done!!

Vinod Menon · Jun 19, 2005

Thanks very much Scott and Kevin!

Keith · Jun 20, 2005

Great series, luv the bird and butterfly. It is a great combo, somedays I miss the 300mm af-s 4, had 2 and sold both( at different times). Just cant afford to keep them all. again nicely done!

Keith

Vinod Menon · Jun 20, 2005

Keith said:
Great series, luv the bird and butterfly. It is a great combo, somedays I miss the 300mm af-s 4, had 2 and sold both( at different times). Just cant afford to keep them all. again nicely done!

Keith

Thanks Keith, I think the 300f4 +TC combination is great....but I can't blame you for selling yours if you got the 400mm instead