Caught in mid-flight at the Lough, Cork
Post processing:
- Converted from RAW with gimp-ufraw
- Rotated and cropped a much larger image, this is why the extra mega pixels are handy!
- Cleanup with Dcam noise, sharpen with unsharp mask.
- Colour adjustment with colour mixer.
- Resize and unsharp mask again.
- Duplicate Layer. Bottom layer is blurred with a radius of 15 pixels, and brightened significantly.
- Set layer mode of top layer to “Overlay” to give the soft light/starry light effect.
9 Comments
Matty (4 comments.) on October 2, 2005 at 8:30 pm.
Donncha, I love it. I can’t identify the bloody thing, though. It might be a duck, but I’m not sure.
Peter (3 comments.) on October 2, 2005 at 9:14 pm.
Fantastic photo Donncha. Looks like it should be a poster or something.
Donncha (1707 comments.) on October 2, 2005 at 9:27 pm.
Thanks guys! The bird was sitting on the lake wall and I surprised it when we walked by. He flew into the air and quick as I could I snapped this shot!
Karalyne on October 3, 2005 at 12:46 am.
Donncha, I love the picture. I live on the water and my favorite time of the day is the afternoons when all the pelicans come to our pier and sit. Nothing to me is more peaceful than to watch the birds come and go as the sun is setting. This picture reminded me of home! thanks!
superkain (2 comments.) on October 3, 2005 at 7:02 pm.
This looks delightful! Wish I had the time to learn all of this. Great Job!
John Wallace on October 4, 2005 at 11:44 am.
Great pic Donncha. it’s a coot btw
tetsu (1 comments.) on October 4, 2005 at 1:12 pm.
Hi,
Beautiful!
Sunlight is so softly!
hartini (1 comments.) on October 5, 2005 at 10:28 pm.
This is beautiful! Has a dreamy effect to it as well.
r40x on October 8, 2005 at 1:57 pm.
Awsum photo work, you have my vote.