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Little Cormorant

03 Saturday Jan 2009

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Little Cormorant

Shot taken at Shinai Lake, Dist. Kachchh, Gujarat.

Little Cormorant (Phalacrocorax niger) is a widespread resident in India. Size: 51 cm.

In the breeding season, Little Cormorants are glossy black with a few white head plumes. Non-breeding adults and juveniles are browner with a white throat patch. Sexes similar. Little Cormorant can dive to considerable depths to catch fish. After feeding it perches atop a rock or low branch to dry its feathers with the wings outstretched. Little Cormorants breed in freshwater wetlands and on coasts. Clutch size: 3-5 eggs.(Source www.birding.in/birds/Pelecaniformes/Phalacrocoracidae/lit…

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Large Egret

01 Thursday Jan 2009

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Large Egret

Shot taken at Shinai Lake, Kachchh, Gujarat, India

Large Egret :

(Plate 2- 5(14) The Book of Indian Birds, Salim Ali, 12th revised edition, BNHS)
A lanky snow white egret. Legs bare, black, bill black-and-yellow. Breeding birds develop a cluster of filmsy ornamental dorsal plumes (“aigretes”) falling over beyond the tail. Habits : Affects jheels, marshes, river etc. usually solitary
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Caterpillar

21 Sunday Dec 2008

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During one of the Sundays during last monsoon I had wandered in the backyard to find subjects to click. I had clicked many shots of one beetle and many shots of this caterpillar.

However, this shot was the best of all caterpillar shots. But this one has one problem, as you have noticed that one thin grass blade obstructed and made this image little less than perfect. So I avoided to upload anywhere.

However, after learning experience on TL, I tried PhotoFiltre to do PP work.

I used Polygon tool to select closely around the insect and inverted the selection and converted the rest of background in grayscale.

However, it took bit of time to turn grayscale at macro level near the insect. (some goof up happened here)

Further there was some overexposed parts on the insect. Again Magic Wand Tool of PhotoFiltre allowed to select those region and reduced Gamma by -2. Finally sharpened image by 1+

Here is the comparison of image-before-and-after PP work

Patience

22 Saturday Nov 2008

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Patience is indeed a virtue. I observed this lizard for quite some time. The creature waited patiently for its prey and didn’t even blink and it was me who was getting impatient to get different posture🙂

I have cropped the image as there was quite empty space in it. Then sharpened little bit and added bit of shadow.

Then with border, tried to mimic the National Geography look and feel added heavy yellow outer-border and thin white inner border. Added caption as a name of an article of the magazine.

Journey

21 Friday Nov 2008

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Train journey is my favorite way to travel. It provides plenty of time just ‘to do nothing’, which I enjoy.

Crossing bridges in train is always exciting for me. I took this shot through my mobile-camera (Sony Ericsson K790i).

The original shot (check the original resized image) was reasonably good considering it was mobile-shot. But I did not find good enough to post it on TrekLens.

So played with the image. But there was classical problem of of two heavily different light conditions. The upper structure was quite bright with sun-light and the train and second track were under shadow.

Therefore, if I was increasing some shadow to show the details of the upper-bridge, it was mostly covering the lower portion dark shadow and vice-versa.

So, I did HRD technique. Created two different image one with undertone another with overtone and merged them to gather.

I found the result some-what satisfactory , your critiques are welcome.

Regards,
Jayesh