I will be working hard at re-crafting his section on noise reduction on my long flight tomorrow. While Arash is a brilliant scientist and a brilliant photographer, writing clear and easy to understand how-to is not his forte that is why we team up on these e-books. In this e-book we will teach you how to run heavy noise reduction on the background and light noise reduction on the subject… Folks who are good with Layer Masking may wish to get a copy of NeatImage and get a head start with this great program. Both artie and Arash recommend only the Proversion as the Homeversion does not work on 16-bit images. Arash recommends and uses only the NeatImage plug-in for advanced noise reduction to maintain maximum fine detail in his images. The main thrust of the book deals with Arash’s high level noise reduction techniques using NeatImage. I am learning this plug-in as I work on Arash’s latest e-book effort, The Post Processing Guide. (See the section on Exposure Theory in the original The Art of Bird Photography.) After converting the RAW file for today’s featured image in DPP 4 with Arash Hazeghi’s Luminance and Chrominance values from our DPP 4 RAW Conversion Guide, I brought the image into Photoshop and played around some more with NeatImage. Remember that the background will be rendered dark (and noisy) because I correctly exposed for the bright white bird. In the NeatImage screen capture above you can see how amazingly this plug-in controls the noise in the dark background. You can only imagine what I might have said to him in 2004…Ĭlick on the image to be more amazed by the larger version. Note: I have changed quite a bit over the past decade or so. Sometimes you really do need to speak up. “I did not think that the bird would fly.” For what it’s worth, that is the proper etiquette in situations like that.” “I’m sorry,” he said. It is likely that the bird would have stayed. ![]() I said, “I know that this is not my private shooting location but for future reference, you might have said ‘Excuse me.’ I would have moved slightly closer to the bird very slowly and let you walk by behind me. As the boardwalk is only about five feet wide at most, the bird of course left the scene.Īs the bird flew I said more than loud enough for him to hear, “Please tell me you did not just do that.” He did not respond.Ībout 15 minutes later he walked back toward me. At the last second I saw that a photographer was going to walk between me and the bird while my lens was pointed at the bird. I had been the first one into the joint and was enjoying the solitude. This morning I had a similar situation but I never saw the guy coming until it was too late. The birds are pretty tame but you need to take some care when you approach them especially when someone else is already working a subject.” He took it well and I coached him into position to get a few good images of the same bird. A guy with a camera was walking briskly toward me. I had gotten right on sun angle and was in good position. This rather handsome bird was sitting on a boardwalk railing. Breeding plumage Great Egret with ruby red eye Click on the image to see a larger version. ![]() The selected AF point was on the bottom of the lores just forward of the bird’s eye. Two AF points to the right and two up from the center AF point/AI Servo Expand/Shutter Button AF as framed was active at the moment of exposure (as is always best when hand holding). Evaluative metering -2/3 stop: 1/2500 sec. This image was created last Thursday at Gatorland with the hand held Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens (at 400mm) and the mega mega-pixel Canon EOS 5DS R. Your doing so is always greatly appreciated. For best results use one of our many product-specific links after clicking on one of those you can continue shopping with all subsequent purchases invisibly tracked to BAA. As always–and folks have been doing a great job recently–please remember to use our B&H links for your major gear purchases. Today’s blog post marks 128 days in a row with a new educational blog post. As Jen is also taking the day off, please note that there will be nobody in the office until this coming Monday. ![]() Jim is driving me to the airport at 7:15am on Friday and then heading directly home. I started and finished this blog post that same evening. I woke early on Thursday and headed up to Gatorland for a short shooting session.
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