Just when I think I found the perfect picture I get to the next one and it is even better. Talk about color and detail. You should be digging your lens
I thought that too, Arch-Man. Using a high-powered zoom telephoto at an extreme should have limited the depth of field, whereas both the bird and the distant background appear to be in focus, the background perhaps not so much as the bird, but it is unusual unless the lens were set at something like f16 or higher to increase the depth. Same with the Carolina chickadee.
Good call Arch-Man and Buzz; the Song Sparrow was taken with the new lens, the landscape behind it with an older, wide angle lens. The composite was created using Photoshop layers.
The Chickadee on the feeder ... same process ... the background is the same in both which is part of the give-away ... the birds are shot with the new lens at f8 with fill-in flash, the landscape at f-22 in bright sunlight.
This might be a good time to do an article on Photoshop layers ... if there's interest in that, I'll do one.
Both shots are intended ultimately for posterized illustrations to go in a childrens' book ... once I posterize them, because the effect will integrate and unify the pixel configuration, it should be difficult or impossible to see the "layering."
In the old days (20 years ago), before Photoshop layers, we'd use slide copiers and stack a pair of slides in a so-called "sandwich", photograph the sandwich on slide film creating a new slide ... one foreground over a different background. And then, if the roll of slide film had 36 exposures, you'd have to finish the roll before processing the sandwich ... or waste 35 shots!
It's a new day.
Wonder what Ansel Adams, who manipulated his negatives would have done had he had Photoshop!
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Just when I think I found the perfect picture I get to the next one and it is even better. Talk about color and detail. You should be digging your lens
I think we have an avatar problem; Mike's avatar is coming up with Lone Ranger's comments ... it also appears multiple times in the member avatars.
Nice photos A. Mac but I don't know if it's me but "Song Sparrow on Feeder" doesn't look natural; it looks transposed on the back ground image.
I thought that too, Arch-Man. Using a high-powered zoom telephoto at an extreme should have limited the depth of field, whereas both the bird and the distant background appear to be in focus, the background perhaps not so much as the bird, but it is unusual unless the lens were set at something like f16 or higher to increase the depth. Same with the Carolina chickadee.
Can you explain, Mac?
Good call Arch-Man and Buzz; the Song Sparrow was taken with the new lens, the landscape behind it with an older, wide angle lens. The composite was created using Photoshop layers.
The Chickadee on the feeder ... same process ... the background is the same in both which is part of the give-away ... the birds are shot with the new lens at f8 with fill-in flash, the landscape at f-22 in bright sunlight.
This might be a good time to do an article on Photoshop layers ... if there's interest in that, I'll do one.
Both shots are intended ultimately for posterized illustrations to go in a childrens' book ... once I posterize them, because the effect will integrate and unify the pixel configuration, it should be difficult or impossible to see the "layering."
In the old days (20 years ago), before Photoshop layers, we'd use slide copiers and stack a pair of slides in a so-called "sandwich", photograph the sandwich on slide film creating a new slide ... one foreground over a different background. And then, if the roll of slide film had 36 exposures, you'd have to finish the roll before processing the sandwich ... or waste 35 shots!
It's a new day.
Wonder what Ansel Adams, who manipulated his negatives would have done had he had Photoshop!
It would have been quite a feat to improve on his level of perfection.
Agreed ... but wouldn't it have been something to see his efforts in trying?
I added the children's book illustration version of the Song Sparrow.
I bet you are diggin' your new lens....fantastic shots Mac!
Guilty.
I'm diggin' the new lens, too, Mac! Beautiful!
btw...loved the pic of your grandson practicing his fishing technique...very cute!
The posterization of the song sparrow is fantastic. Well done, Mac.
after last nights fun with Perrie,..this is the funniest comment I have read today,...
btw, great pics,...
Thank you ... my heart soars like a hawk.