- Location
- Lota, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Name
- Larry Griffiths
- Start Date
- Oct 2, 2024
- End Date
- Oct 5, 2024
This is Digital Darkroom Derby #230, a digital image editing/processing challenge.
These challenges are open to everyone. If you have any interest in practicing or improving your image editing and post-processing skills, please feel free to join in!
Please read the rules here. Short version: -> Host provides the challenge image and selects the winner, who then becomes the next host.
If you feel that you may be unable to provide an image for the next challenge, please submit your entry with the words "Non Entry" at the top.
Background Information
This is a standard problem that I have when trying to take photos of little birds in Brisbane's wetlands reserves. - They flit around so quickly that, if you happen to spot one, it is difficult to frame the photo correctly or, if they do pause for a bit, they are just a bit too far away..... Unless you are lucky!
I was slowly wandering around the Sandy Camp Road Wetlands Reserve when I spotted this little Sacred Kingfisher perched on a branch. Even accepting that I would have to crop the image, it was still just a bit too far away for my liking. But I decided to fire off a burst using ProCapture just in case it did something interesting. I could always delete them when I got home. My camera was set up in my 'birds-in-flight' mode. - Very fast shutter speed which with a maximum aperture of 6.3 at full stretch, tends to push the ISO values up into the stratosphere, introducing a fair bit of noise.
When I got home and went through culling all the "non-keepers" (Probably upwards of 90%), I decided to see what I could do with one of the kingfisher photos. So I fiddled around until I got the exposure about right. Then the cropping! - The OM-1's 20 megapixel sensor doesn't allow for excessive cropping without losing image quality. This gave me a great chance to play around with some upsizing software. That improved matters, but it was still way outside of my 'acceptable' range. If it wasn't for this challenge, this photo would be straight into the bin.
I would be interested in seeing if you can do better. Please also tell us what software and techniques you used so that the rest of us can also learn. I'll post my attempt on completion of the challenge.
The RAW and JPEG files are here: DDD #230
This challenge will end on Saturday 5 October 2024 at 5:00pm Brisbane Time (07:00 UTC).
Have fun! 😄
These challenges are open to everyone. If you have any interest in practicing or improving your image editing and post-processing skills, please feel free to join in!
Please read the rules here. Short version: -> Host provides the challenge image and selects the winner, who then becomes the next host.
If you feel that you may be unable to provide an image for the next challenge, please submit your entry with the words "Non Entry" at the top.
Background Information
This is a standard problem that I have when trying to take photos of little birds in Brisbane's wetlands reserves. - They flit around so quickly that, if you happen to spot one, it is difficult to frame the photo correctly or, if they do pause for a bit, they are just a bit too far away..... Unless you are lucky!
I was slowly wandering around the Sandy Camp Road Wetlands Reserve when I spotted this little Sacred Kingfisher perched on a branch. Even accepting that I would have to crop the image, it was still just a bit too far away for my liking. But I decided to fire off a burst using ProCapture just in case it did something interesting. I could always delete them when I got home. My camera was set up in my 'birds-in-flight' mode. - Very fast shutter speed which with a maximum aperture of 6.3 at full stretch, tends to push the ISO values up into the stratosphere, introducing a fair bit of noise.
When I got home and went through culling all the "non-keepers" (Probably upwards of 90%), I decided to see what I could do with one of the kingfisher photos. So I fiddled around until I got the exposure about right. Then the cropping! - The OM-1's 20 megapixel sensor doesn't allow for excessive cropping without losing image quality. This gave me a great chance to play around with some upsizing software. That improved matters, but it was still way outside of my 'acceptable' range. If it wasn't for this challenge, this photo would be straight into the bin.
I would be interested in seeing if you can do better. Please also tell us what software and techniques you used so that the rest of us can also learn. I'll post my attempt on completion of the challenge.
The RAW and JPEG files are here: DDD #230
This challenge will end on Saturday 5 October 2024 at 5:00pm Brisbane Time (07:00 UTC).
Have fun! 😄
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DXO PL7 then Elements and PhotoAI (inc Upscale).
