White-crested Laughingthrush

erwinx · 15th June 2004

trying for an environmental portrait this time. This is actually in shade so ISO 800 was used.

Jeff · 15th June 2004

Originally Posted by erwinx

trying for an environmental portrait this time. This is actually in shade so ISO 800 was used.

Lovely. Not too hard, not too soft. Just nice. My only nit would be the cropped tail.

Could you share your workflow?

Madcat II · 16th June 2004

nicely captured Erwinx

Garion · 16th June 2004

Nice portrait shot of the Laughing Thrush.

Good exposure and detail. Thanks for sharing!

oeyvind · 16th June 2004

Now this one is a fine clean image... cute birdie.

erwinx · 16th June 2004

guys, thanks for the comments

Jeff, the workflow for this pic is:

(1) Canon Raw converter with White balance around 5200k (not sure)
(2) Photoshop - Curves tool - manually apply S-curve
(3) Photoshop - unsharp mask 100% 0.4
(4) Photoshop - saturation + 10 (the purists will be after me for this

)

thats it. if i was printing, then i would use neatimage to reduce the noise. For web-sized image, neatimage is optional.

MatthewSL · 16th June 2004

The image looks like it was noise reduced .... or processed ....... the feather looks too smooth. i wonder how is a person able to tell a 'clean' image from a web size picture??? Will not the change in size reduce noise too?

Murray Smith · 16th June 2004

Would you please expand BBNP for me, Is it in Singapore ? As you can see I'm down under but get to bird in S'pore from time to time and need to know where you find these beauties.

Thanks

erwinx · 16th June 2004

Originally Posted by Murray Smith

Would you please expand BBNP for me, Is it in Singapore ? As you can see I'm down under but get to bird in S'pore from time to time and need to know where you find these beauties.

Thanks

Hi Murray,

BBNP is Bukit Batok Nature Park (www.nparks.gov.sg). It is very crowded on weekends but one of my 3 favourite 'bird parks' (the others being Botanic Gardens and Marina Park)

This is an introduced species but on the official Singapore Bird list as there is a viable resident breeding population.

Fred · 16th June 2004

Good shot, I've always like this bird, especially when it displays its "punk" hair style.

15th June 2004	#1
erwinx Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,492	White-crested Laughingthrush trying for an environmental portrait this time. This is actually in shade so ISO 800 was used.

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Garion Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: West side of S'pore Posts: 5,515	Nice portrait shot of the Laughing Thrush. Good exposure and detail. Thanks for sharing! __________________ [ deviantart selections \| Photoblog ]

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oeyvind Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 3,556	Now this one is a fine clean image... cute birdie. __________________ flickr

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Murray Smith Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Tauranga, New Zealand Posts: 71	Great photo Would you please expand BBNP for me, Is it in Singapore ? As you can see I'm down under but get to bird in S'pore from time to time and need to know where you find these beauties. Thanks

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Madcat II Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: this world is not my home Posts: 826	nicely captured Erwinx

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MatthewSL Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Melbourne Posts: 156	The image looks like it was noise reduced .... or processed ....... the feather looks too smooth. i wonder how is a person able to tell a 'clean' image from a web size picture??? Will not the change in size reduce noise too?

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Fred Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Singapore Posts: 1,240	Good shot, I've always like this bird, especially when it displays its "punk" hair style.