From the course: Travel Photography: Costa Rica
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Post-processing hummingbird photos
From the course: Travel Photography: Costa Rica
Post-processing hummingbird photos
- Okay, let's take a look some of those hummingbird images. You'll note as we select the different images, you could see the settings that were used in the metadata browser. Now, these settings may be in slightly different places depending if you're using Bridge or Lightroom. For right now, I'm using Bridge and just taking a look at the key files. You'll note that the shutter speeds are changing here and it really depends on the f-stop that I used. I'm feeling pretty good. I shot at a relatively high ISO of 1250, but looking in the image itself, it looks pretty clean. The trick here is to be able to find a good image, so let's scale the thumbnails up a little bit larger. And just take a look through what we have. This looks pretty good to me. Now, you'll note that the hummingbird does indeed move fast. In between the burst mode, the bird went from here to landing, so, that was just a split second. You'll also notice in many of the shots, that it's a bit distracting because we have…
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Packing for a trip to the mountains3m 52s
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Advice when walking in a cloud forest4m 38s
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Photographing hummingbirds4m 27s
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Post-processing hummingbird photos11m 24s
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Photographing insects and reptiles3m 36s
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Post-processing insects and reptiles11m 26s
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Photographing flowers in low-light (HDR single pass)2m 42s
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Refining flower images - Part 18m 57s
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Refining flower images - Part 25m 45s
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Photographing the landscape in HDR3m 45s
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Stitching together a panorama photograph8m 45s
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Refining the panorama photo8m 7s
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