RE: Black Crowned Night Heron (now includes toes!)
That's a ~very~ cool shot, Mark. I don't know why, but beyond the technical brilliance of it (and you must forgive me for what I'm about to say), there's something comical about it. This thing, all hunched over, with those red eyes seems diabolically humourous to me. Reminds me of a cartoon character I think, but I just can't seem to recall which one. I love it! cheers, frank The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. -J. Robert Oppenheimer From: Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Black Crowned Night Heron (now includes toes!) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:14:19 -0400 http://www.robertstech.com/graphics/pages/7d400839.htm Mark Cassino (I think) suggested this shot would be better if it included all of the heron's toes. I pulled it out of the slide mount and, sure enough, the toes were there! I re-scanned it and darkened the sky as someone else suggested. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com _ MSN Premium helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-capage=byoa/premxAPID=1994DI=1034SU=http://hotmail.com/encaHL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines
Black Crowned Night Heron (now includes toes!)
http://www.robertstech.com/graphics/pages/7d400839.htm Mark Cassino (I think) suggested this shot would be better if it included all of the heron's toes. I pulled it out of the slide mount and, sure enough, the toes were there! I re-scanned it and darkened the sky as someone else suggested. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
Re: Black Crowned Night Heron (now includes toes!)
nice! great composition, the toes do help and the darker sky really works! Christian - Original Message - From: Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 3:14 PM Subject: Black Crowned Night Heron (now includes toes!) http://www.robertstech.com/graphics/pages/7d400839.htm Mark Cassino (I think) suggested this shot would be better if it included all of the heron's toes. I pulled it out of the slide mount and, sure enough, the toes were there! I re-scanned it and darkened the sky as someone else suggested. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
Re: Black Crowned Night Heron (now includes toes!)
Bruce Dayton wrote: Thursday, April 22, 2004, 12:14:19 PM, you wrote: MR http://www.robertstech.com/graphics/pages/7d400839.htm MR Mark Cassino (I think) suggested this shot would be better if it MR included all of the heron's toes. I pulled it out of the slide mount MR and, sure enough, the toes were there! I re-scanned it and darkened the MR sky as someone else suggested. This looks very nice. I would have liked to have a side by side comparison to see what you did. I really like this one. Here's the original: http://www.robertstech.com/temp/7d400839.jpg For the new version I scanned the slide at 16-bit color depth and then made two copies. The first copy I darkened until the sky looked the way I wanted it. The other I lightened until the bird looked right (and even though I used fill flash I had to brighten up the lighter parts of the bird some more). Then I resampled both files down to 8-bit color (so that I could use layers - Photoshop 7 won't do layers in 16-bit mode) and pasted the brightened bird and wire onto the darkened sky. It took quite a bit of fiddling about to get the blend just right. Finally, even though the full-frame slide did have his toes included, there was a *bit* of one toe cropped off. I added some sky at the bottom of the frame to get the extra space I needed and then cloned the end of another toe, mirrored it and grafted it on the cropped toe. (I guess that's why they call it digital.) Pentax MZ-S, Kodak E100SW, Sigma EX300/2.8 APO with matched Sigma 2x teleconverter. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
Re: Black Crowned Night Heron (now includes toes!)
Sorry, Mark your site still times out for me. Mark Roberts wrote: http://www.robertstech.com/graphics/pages/7d400839.htm Mark Cassino (I think) suggested this shot would be better if it included all of the heron's toes. I pulled it out of the slide mount and, sure enough, the toes were there! I re-scanned it and darkened the sky as someone else suggested.
