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[sunshine]

A few birds from yesterday's boat ride.

 

Great Blue Heron

1 - on a pedestal

 

2 - in flight

 

3 - having lunch

 

Shaking it off

 

Cormorants

[Nikon Shooter]

Very nice captures! I like the "shaking it off"!

I think you could get a lot more from the files in terms
of details (no sharpening meant!) through tonal taming.

[mikew]

Lovely set of images

[sunshine]

Lovely set of images

 

Thank you!

 

Very nice captures! I like the "shaking it off"!

I think you could get a lot more from the files in terms
of details (no sharpening meant!) through tonal taming.

 

Thanks!  I did not realize I had captured that moment until I got it on the computer. 

 

I appreciate your advice, but I cannot find the "Taming" slider.  

 

These were taken in harsh, bright midday sun.  I have already reduced highlights and boosted shadows to extreme values on all of these.  And, in spite of the crop sensor of the D500 and 500mm lens, these images are all cropped from the original.  The last photo is just not focused that well.  My shutter speed should have been higher.  The Heron with his lunch was really too far away for a good shot but I don't often see them with a big fish so I thought it worth sharing.  If you can describe what you think I should do differently, I may give it a try.  But you should know that for me, the joy of photography does not come from editing photos.  I spend 8+ hours per day in front of a computer for my job.  I don't particularly want to increase my computer time for my recreation.

[Nikon Shooter]

 I cannot find the "Taming" slider.  

 

 

Tonal taming is not a tool but a strategy applied to post-processing,
there is no slider with that name!

 

Tonal taming is a quick decision that permits to render an organic look
to an otherwise flat "mineral" capture… a matter of seconds, really!

Like this suggestion…

[mikew]

If you want a quick fix and your PP program can do curves it can take only seconds to drop the curves slightly.

 

[sunshine]

Tonal taming is not a tool but a strategy applied to post-processing,
there is no slider with that name!

 

Tonal taming is a quick decision that permits to render an organic look
to an otherwise flat "mineral" capture… a matter of seconds, really!

 

That was intended to be a joke.  I know there's no "Taming" slider.  But even Google returns nothing for a search on the phrase "tonal taming".  I can clearly see how your version is an improvement over mine, but I could not duplicate what you did. After mikew's comment below, I can come close.

 

If you want a quick fix and your PP program can do curves it can take only seconds to drop the curves slightly.

 

Thanks! I went to Lightroom's Tone Curve panel to try to duplicate what Nikon Shooter did but couldn't quite get there.  Your example is closer.  I was then able to do this:

 

I guess the larger problem for me is recognizing when to make this kind of edit. I did not see that the original would be improved by this until you two showed me. So thanks to both of you.