The Birds as Art Current Workflow Eguide Digital Basics Ii Review

• Is this Prototype Worth Optimizing?
• Appointment Change: St. Augustine Alligator Farm Short-Notice Spoonbill and Wading Bird Chicks IPT: May 4-half dozen, 2015.
• 7D Marking 2 User'south Guide
• The Weblog is the Bomb!
• Used Photography Gear for Sale
• BIRDS AS ART Instructional Photo-Tour (IPT) Info
• South Georgia October 2015
• Affiliate Stuff

This image was created at Salisbury Plainly, S Georgia with the Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM lens, the Canon Extender EF ane.4X 3 (paw held at 205mm), and the astonishing Catechism EOS 7D Marking II. ISO 400. Evaluative metering +i stop: 1/1250 sec. at f/four.5. AI Servo Zone/Rear Focus AF as framed was active at the moment of exposure (equally is always all-time when hand belongings). For this image, the AF system activated three AF points that fell largely on the pup's cervix but yet yielded abrupt-enough eyes for both the pup and for mom. Click here to see the latest version of the Rear Focus Tutorial. Click on the image to see a larger version. Image #1: Southern Ocean Lion pup nuzzling mom.

Is this Image Worth Optimizing?

It's cute, but they are both soaking wet, the fur of the female parent and the pup look totally particular-less, and the eyes of both bounding main lions are barely defined. The BLACKs have a pretty good (or bad) Ruddy/MAGENTA color cast. Is this image worth optimizing?

This is the optimized image that was created from the image above.

The Optimized Prototype

Notation that a proficient bargain of detail in the moisture fur has been restored. The majority of the improvement came from applying a healthy dose of Detail Extractor and a bit of Tonal Contrast, both courtesy of NIK Color EFX Pro. Note too the improvement in the eyes via Centre Md work. Exist sure to see the earlier and after blithe GIF immediately below if you are in doubt.

What Do You Think?

Please exit a annotate and let us know what yous think?

a: it still looks lousy, y'all wasted your time.
b: non bad, you used too much Detail Extractor.
c: it looks pretty good, particularly the eyes and the removal of the color bandage.
d: it looks great; you did a fine job of the image optimization.
e: make up your own comment 🙂

Milk face???

I am thinking that the white grime around the pup's eye is mother'due south milk. Whatever clues?

Digital Basics

Everything that I did to optimize today's image is covered in detail in my Digital Basics File–written in my piece of cake-to-follow, easy-to-understand style. Are y'all tired of making your images look worse in Photoshop? Digital Basics File is an instructional PDF that is sent via east-mail. Information technology includes my complete digital workflow, dozens of great Photoshop tips, details on using all of my paradigm clean-up tools, the use of Contrast Masks, several different ways of expanding and filling in canvass, all of my time-saving Keyboard Shortcuts, Quick Masking, Layer Masking, and NIK Color Efex Pro nuts, Dissimilarity Masks, Digital Eye Medico techniques, using Gaussian Blurs, Tim Grey Dodge and Burn, a variety of ways to make selections, how to create time-saving deportment, the Surface Blur (background noise reduction) settings, and tons more than.

APTATS I & II

Learn the details of advanced Quick Masking techniques in APTATS I. Learn Advanced Layer Masking Techniques in APTATS II. Mention this blog post and apply a $5 discount to either with phone orders only. Purchase both APTATS I and APTATS Ii and nosotros will be glad to apply at $fifteen discount either with phone orders or here in the BAA Online Store. For phone orders, call Jim or Jennifer at 863-692-0906 weekdays.

You can order your copy of "The Photographers' Guide to Canon Digital Photo Professional iv.0" (aka the DPP 4 Raw Conversion eGuide) by Arash Hazeghi and Arthur Morris by clicking here.

The DPP four eGuide (PDF)

The Platonic Companion to the 7D Mark Ii User'southward Guide

Learn how and why I and many other discerning photographers choose and employ just DPP 4 to catechumen their Canon RAW files in the DPP 4 RAW Conversion Guide past Arash Hazeghi and yours truly. The latest version supports all of the newer Canon camera bodies and several older models including the EOS-7D and the EOS-1D Mark Four. A free update that volition cover near of the newly added cameras will exist sent in a week or two. See upcoming weblog posts for exact details.

Clockwise from upper left to centre: Snowy Egrets/breeding feather pair, American Alligator with egret feather on head, Cattle Egret in breeding plumage (with fill flash), large Snowy Egret chicks, displaying gator, Wood Stork in flying carrying nesting textile (make full flash), begging Snowy Egret chick, another Cattle Egret in breeding feather (with fill up flash), and Great Egret chick.

St. Augustine Alligator Farm Short-Discover Spoonbill and Wading Bird Chicks IPT: May 4-vi, 2015. TWO FULL and TWO i/2 DAYS: $1099. Limit 8/Openings 5.

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St. Augustine in early May is a bird photographer's paradise. With any luck we should have chicks of all sizes in the nests ranging from newly hatched Snowy Egrets and Tricolored Herons to nearly fledged Keen Egrets. More than a few pairs of Roseate Spoonbills accept nested at the Alligator Subcontract for the past several years. Photographing the spoonbill chicks in the nest is a huge challenge…. With any luck we will see a few Snowy and Cattle Egrets in stunning breeding plumage. Nosotros should accept lots of flight photography ops especially late in the day. Nosotros will enjoy actress early entry on our 3 mornigs. Folks who volition need a photographer'south pass ($89.95 includes full season early on entry and late stay and submission fees for up to five photos in their annual contest; this works out to cheaper than iv separate entry tickets). We will have those set for pick-upward on the first afternoon.

Clockwise from upper left: wink-as-main light Bang-up Egret chick begging, convenance plumage Cattle Egret w/fill flash, Little Bluish Heron, Neat Egret chick in nest begging, Cattle Egrets copulating, Woods Stork with nesting fabric, another Wood Stork with nesting cloth, and convenance plumage Snowy Egret displaying.

What You Will Acquire

On this IPT yous will the learn the basics and fine points of digital exposure and how to get the right exposure every time afterward making a single examination exposure. You will learn to understand and predict bird behavior and to come across and empathise the lite. Y'all volition learn to design pleasing images by mastering your camera's AF organization and how and why to work in Manual manner (even if y'all're scared of it). Near importantly, you will acquire to spot the good situations, to choose the all-time perspective. Rookeries are crowded, cluttered, white-washed places. Most folks who visit take no inkling as to the deviation of an epitome with tons of distractions and 1 with a clean line of sight and the all-time possible afar background. Join me and I volition teach you to see like a pro.

I volition be bringing my wink to the Alligator Farm (gasp!) I have not used flash for at least a year. I will exist teaching you how to use wink as fill up and how to use flash as main low-cal. In improver, I will be reviewing the flash flight techniques that I developed at St. Augustine more than a few years agone.

Clockwise from upper left: gator back, Swell Egret returning to mate (with fill wink), Roseate Spoonbill with bill open, Roseate Spoonbill chick begging, Roseate Spoonbill 11am silhouette, large Smashing Egret chicks in nest, and beak of Roseate Spoonbill.

Whats the Residue of the Deal?

Afternoon session on Monday, May iv. Then two full days with a morning and afternoon session each day, May 5 & six. So our final morning on May 7. At lunch on Tuesday and Wed (included) we will review my images; folks learn a ton watching me edit–why keep this one and delete that one? If yous opt to bring your laptop, we tin can take a look at v of your best images from the morning or another session. We will procedure a few of my images in Photoshop afterward converting them in DPP. That followed past Instructor Nap Fourth dimension.

A $499 non-refundable deposit is required to hold your spot. Your rest–$600, payable only by check, is due immediately. Delight include a separate check for $89.95 then that we tin can buy your laissez passer in accelerate. Delight click here to read our cancellation policy earlier committing. Then please impress, read, and sign the necessary paperwork linked to here and go it to usa. You lot can register past calling Jim or Jen at the function at 863-692-0906 and arranging for your deposit of $499. Balances are payable only by check. I hope to see y'all at that place.

The 7D Marking II User'south Guide is now bachelor. Yous can purchase your copy right at present in the BAA Online Store hither for $59

7D Mark Two User's Guide

The long-awaited 7D Mark II User's Guide has received rave reviews. You tin purchase your re-create right at present in the BAA Online Shop hither for $59. This is the highest priced user'south guide ever, surpassing the 5D II User's Guide that is priced at $50. Why? I did twice as much piece of work preparing the 7D Two Guide. It required many days of writing, many dozens of hours of study and enquiry, not to mention hundreds of hours in the field trying to effigy out the best 7D II setting while doing what I beloved to exercise all-time, photographing birds and nature. The camera is quite complex. Many thanks to both Rudy Winston and Chuck Westfall of Catechism USA for their aid in getting me through the stickiest parts.

The guide contains 23,196 words in 516 paragraphs. There are 24 photos and screen captures interspersed in the main body of the text and a gallery of 23 additional 7D 2 images that show what the camera is capable of with a variety of lens and lens/TC combinations. We would love your feedback via eastward-mail.

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My April Fool's Twenty-four hour period "retirement" here.

20 + free hours of Photoshop tutoring and image review here.

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See a actually neat displaying Anna'south Hummingbird here.

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Used Photography Gear for Sale

At that place are lots of great used lenses and camera bodies for sale at affordable if not record low prices. And several more than volition be posted soon. You can see the complete current listings or larn about selling your used gear here

BIRDS As Fine art Instructional Photo-Tours

Most BAA IPTs are sold out. Nosotros however accept a single opening on the UK Puffins and Gannets IPT and there is room on both of the 2014 Bosque IPTs, both of those with two great leaders, Denise Ippolito and yours truly. See consummate details by scrolling down hither.

Due south Georgia October 2015

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