Common Tern on a rock

[kevin Hice]

• KEVIN HICE 701 460 6112
• Digital Photo Professional

Shot in Nd from my floating blind. Processed with Dpp 4 Photoshop. Comments and critiques appreciated. If anyone can help me with tips leveling the photos would be much appreciated. Do you just eyeball the frame or is their maybe a better way.One of the problems with a floating blind is keeping it level. When shooting photos if you lean at all on the inner platform it effects the level.
Also most sloughs are very shallow witch creates lots of chop with very little wind. I don't usually like going out over 8mph wind. Chop gets so bad at over 8mph looks like your in the ocean. Which will cause the blind to be unlevel plus hard to keep focus points and composition.
Canon R5
RF 600 f/4 L
600 mm
1/2000
7.1
ISO 500

 

[Steve Kaluski]

If anyone can help me with tips leveling the photos would be much appreciated

It might be through setting what you seen in the Screen, but I just hit the INFO button and toggle through, you then get the 'levelling' tool.

Very nice image with great detail, looks/appears well exposed. Any shot landscape in the same pose???? Easy to rotate the lens, as with Canon you have that lovely, beautiful click sound, indicating it's levelled out to the correct position, but subject to your own level.

TFS
Steve

 

[Daniel Cadieux]

Very appealing! I like the like the pose - mid-preen eh! Low angle, rock, BG all work nicely.

I personally keep the electronic level on at all times in my camera's viewfinder, it does not bother me although I know it does bother some others. From a floating blind I do realize you can still end up with slanted images, such as you have here (needs CW rotation) - but I think you know that or lese you would not be asking about how to correct this.

In PS use the ruler tool, and draw a line following the slant. In this case eyeball-it along the in-focus part of the water. Then use Image>Image Rotation>Arbitrary. This will level the image. You will end up with corners that you will either fill with whatever method you prefer (e.g. content aware), or crop them away if the comp is loose enough to permit it. See next screenshots.

P.S. If the image features a full and clean reflection, you can draw a line with the ruler tool from bill-tip to bill tip (or center of the eye to center of the eye, etc...).

Lastly, there is another method by using the crop tool to achieve the dame result, but I have not used it. Someone may chime in with that method.

 

[Daniel Cadieux]

Line drawn with the ruler tool

 

[Daniel Cadieux]

Corners, in white, needing fill or crop.

 

[Steve Kaluski]

If you use the crop tool then Content Fill should kick in automatically if set correctly and in fill the edges automatically. But you need to duplicate the layer first.

Best to do in camera, set a 3x2 grid up to.

 

[Jonathan Ashton]

Super shot fine tones details throughout. I particularly like the position of the wings and tail.

 

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Kevin wonderful image of this Tern , awesome pose on that single rock is just gorgeous !
Super details and sharpness is spot on , as are tones and the colors overall .
Personal taste ... I would have liked to be horizontally captured and I might drop the red color the feet in its intensity , just minor things

A shot I would like to call mine :bg3:

TFS Andreas

 

[William Dickson]

Looking real good here Kevin. Beautiful colours throughout and I like the pose and detail. Some good advice as well from Dan.

Well done

Will

 

[Arthur Morris]

Very nice. Was this captured as a horizontal or a vertical? Love the rock and the soft light.

with love, artie