This lets me enable the highlight alert warning (by checking “Show blown highlights” circle) and gives me a good luck at the histogram as well. I now select my keepers in Photo Mechanic with the fly-out window on the right open as seen in the PM screen capture above.
While I cannot enter this image in any of the major contests because of the wingtip repairs I am thrilled with it. The last step in the image optimization was to sharpen the face with a Contrast Mask.Įverything above took a total of only 12 minutes including the RAW conversion.
Photo mechanic plus pro#
Then I applied a layer of Pro Contrast and White Neutralizer in NIK Color EFEX Pro and reduced the opacity of that layer to about 30% this yielded the perfect combination of practically pure WHITEs and soft BLUE that I was after. Total time for the repair: three minutes.Īfter the repair was complete I executed somewhat of a pano crop and cleaned up a bit of sloppy snow detail that was left along the lower frame edge. I used that primary tip twice to build the missing primary tips on the first and second flight feathers.
Photo mechanic plus series#
The wingtip repairs took just minutes after expanding and filling in the canvas at the top of the frame using one of the APTATS II tutorials, I used a series of small Quick Masks that were refined by Regular Layer Masks to grab the tip of the fourth primary (as detailed in APTATS I). 2 stops of light to the image by moving the Brightness slider to the right during the DPP 4 RAW conversion and then brought the TIFF into Photoshop. I did not, however, realize that I had just clipped the ends of the two longest primaries. I rarely look at anything but the histogram on my camera’s rear LCD, but I will admit to checking this one for sharpness after I saw the tiny JPEG. Click on the image to see a larger version. It is likely that the left assist point caught the contrast where the black of the neck meets the white of the upper breast. The center AF point was on the edge of the upper breast just to our right of the spot where the black of the neck ends. AWB.Ĭenter AF point/AI Servo Expand/Shutter button AF as originally framed was active at the moment of exposure. Evaluative metering +1 1/3 stops off the snow in no light conditions: 1/1000 sec. This image was created right near our lodge on the 2016 Japan in Winter IPT with the Induro GIT 304L/ Mongoose M3.6-mounted Canon EF 600mm f/4L IS II USM lens, and the mega mega-pixel Canon EOS 5DS R.
Your doing so is always greatly appreciated. As always–and folks have been doing a great job recently–please remember to use our B&H links for your major gear purchases. This post took me about 60 minutes to assemble including the time spent on the image optimization. Today’s blog post marks 112 days in a row with a new educational blog post. I advised Ned that he had seriously under-priced his 500 f/4L IS and he is glad that he took my advice. I learned on Monday morning Japan time that the sale of Ned Therrien’s old five hundred and his 90mm Tilt Shift are pending both sold on the day that they were listed.
I began work on this blog post on the drive to Rausu for our second Steller’s Sea and White-tailed Eagle flight photography cruise. We enjoyed a late afternoon session with the Red-crowned cranes landing and dancing and, as seen in today’s featured image, taking off to head for their evening roosts in local rivers. Most years it snows on average every other day or three. We awoke on the morning of February 21 to a foot of fresh snow. Well, our prayers were answered as it finally snowed in Hokkaido.
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