My first Deer shot

[alpine62uk]

Please leave feed back, I think the Deer should have been a bit sharper.Not really sure why the image is a bit weak

http://Antony.smugmug.com/photos/13968775-L.jpg

[Scottes]

It looks good - just needs a bit of contrast, that's all. And then it looks very good indeed.

(I hope you don't mind me posting the edited pic.)

http://www.itsanadventure.com/postimages/alpine62k-deer.jpg

This was a 2-second change. A couple of quick tutorials:
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=34476
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=34934

[ssim]

Nice shot Anthony. They look so damn good in the snow don't they.

[IanD]

Hey Scott, practicin for next weekend are we?:):):):):)
Nice shot Anthony.

[alpine62uk]

Thanks for the advice, I think your edit makes a big difference and has improved the shot.

The only thing I would like to ask is this. In your edited version, the orange seems a little too saturated. I always find the same when I try to make the shot have a little more life. I am not sure if this is just a personal thing or that others see it the same way. I always feel the red in my shots are a little unrealistic and yet I see quite a few phots that hit the subtle mix of colour and contrast. Is it just extensive editting in PS?

Anyway thanks for the feed back and the links to the tutorials, much appriciated
Antony


It looks good - just needs a bit of contrast, that's all. And then it looks very good indeed.

(I hope you don't mind me posting the edited pic.)

http://www.itsanadventure.com/postimages/alpine62k-deer.jpg

This was a 2-second change. A couple of quick tutorials:
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=34476
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=34934

[Scottes]

The edit I did was a quick move of the black slider in Levels. I barely touched it.

But I agree with you on the reds. I would definitely reduce the Red saturation, too. Note that the red could be this way because the camera's Auto White Balance was off a little. Anyway it's another very minor tweak.

[alpine62uk]

Thanks, Scottes, what would I do to experiment with the cameras auto balance to fix this. I have never toched the cameras white balance, it is always on auto

The edit I did was a quick move of the black slider in Levels. I barely touched it.

But I agree with you on the reds. I would definitely reduce the Red saturation, too. Note that the red could be this way because the camera's Auto White Balance was off a little. Anyway it's another very minor tweak.

[Scottes]

If you shoot JPG the only thing you can do is to try a few different ways to remove the color cast. You can use Hue/Saturation or by setting the grar or white point using either Levels or Curves. (This is all Photoshop, by the way - not sure what can be done in other programs.) The easiest way may seem to be to simply reduce the Saturation to get rid of a color cast. But there may be images where trying to use Saturation can lead to madness - you pick and poke and tweak and it never comes out right. Your best bet is always to set the white point using Levels or Curves. It's a bit to get into here, though.

If you shoot in RAW it's very easy to just tweak the White Balance and Tint to get the image to look correct. This really isn't any easier than setting the white point in Photoshop, but it does so cleanly without harming the image. But this isn't very important with an image that's off slightly, like this one.

So I poked at this image a little bit and found that simply reducing the Red Saturation was the way to go - in my opinion. Setting the gray point removed the slight blue cast - a desired part of this image I think because it gives a feeling of cold, which is appropriate for this image. Simply reducing the Red kept the cold feeling while removing much of the strong reds.

[PacAce]

Scott,

I did the same thing you did in terms of just adjusting the black level in Levels but that didn't affect the color saturation on my sample. Do you have any idea why we would get different results doing the same operations? ???

I added USM to sharpen the image a little more.

[Edit: Looks like I used a little too much USM. Should have used 80% instead of 100%. :confused:

[PacAce]

BTW, Anthony, that is a very good deer shot you got there, especially considering that this is your first deer shot.