Today I shot some Snowy Egrets on Bair Island with a Nikon D300, 35-135 f3.5-f4.5 AF zoom and Nikon TC 201 2x teleconverter at times. Previous attempts left the bird's feathers burned out in bright sun. Today I shot at -2 stops exposure compensation. The birds look good but the surrounding do not look natural.
Images were saved in camera RAW, converted to Tiff 16 bit in Capture NX-D then converted to jpeg in CS5.1.
Egrets 2a is the unedited image.View attachment 232010
Egrets 2 is the edit I did in CS5. View attachment 232011
Adjustments are Levels, highlight to edge of line, about 240, midtone about 1.02 or 98 as I don't remember; Exposure midtone eyedropper on the brush, shadow eyedropper on a shadow resulting in a +1.02 on exposure, -08 on offset, gamma at 1.
How would you handle this in PS?
Thanks for the details of your adjustments. I apologize for the smallish image.
Now i have a new problem. Any adjustment I make in CS5 to the Tiff also shows up in the NEF although they are in separate folders and no adjustments were made to the raw file, any clues what may cause this? Windows 10 Pro version 1903, build 18362.387; Capture NX-D Version 1.5.2; CS 5 Version 12.1.1. I have not had this happen before.
Thanks for the details of your adjustments. I apologize for the smallish image.
Now i have a new problem. Any adjustment I make in CS5 to the Tiff also shows up in the NEF although they are in separate folders and no adjustments were made to the raw file, any clues what may cause this? Windows 10 Pro version 1903, build 18362.387; Capture NX-D Version 1.5.2; CS 5 Version 12.1.1. I have not had this happen before.
I'm unfamiliar with the NEF file. Is that Nikon's RAW format? When you open a RAW file, are you using Photoshop, or are you going through the Nikon software? I don't use the software that came with my camera, I open the RAW file directly in Photoshop.
NEF files do the same.When I open the RAW file, DNG in my case, it first opens in Adobe Camera Raw and allows me to make basic adjustments.
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