2019-08-30_08-41-58.25_DSC4602.NEF (21.6 MB)
Hi all, with this recent shot I am becoming more confident with filmic, although I have applied a couple of other transformations also. Is there too much bringing out the texture on the necks of the birds, for example? I guess the other way one could go is to crush the blacks and silhouette the birds. Or go monochrome. I thought there was something dreamy about the pale blue of the water I wanted to keep however. I’d love to see what you can achieve with this raw.
@martin.scharnke Thanks for sharing. I like it! First thought was that the water actually looks like water. In some Play Raws, the water looks unnatural.
Oops, I haven’t had anything to eat or drink since I woke up.
Both comments were literal. I liked the appearance of the water and could almost see and hear the ripples undulate and slosh. And I literally didn’t eat or drink anything until 2 hours after posting.
Thank you all for your responses … you all seem to have gone the way I did, preserving the detail in the shadowed side of the birds, especially their necks.
Here are a couple of attempts at going the opposite, to the extreme: Both are essentially the same, one with saturation boast, and the other total monochrome. This seems to capture the “synchronised swimming” bit for me.
(I should add that I had another pic taken a few seconds earlier where both birds were swimming in the same direction as this pic, but looking directly away from the camera with their heads; hence, synchronised).
