shane shacaluga
12-30-2013, 07:40 AM
After a huge storm a few days ago the marine birds have come closer to shore so I decided to go for an outing in my boat and see what I could find
We were quite successful on the outing and I will be posting a few shots I took.
Here is one I thought was quite good trying out my 300f4 with no TC to as planning to finally buy a 500f4 soon and wanted to see the difference in sharpness
There was a pair of sandwich terns hunting close to the rocks and each time they pulled a fish they were mobbed by the local juvenile yellow legged gulls.
D800e
300mm @ f4
1/4000
ISO 200
Hand held with usual PP techniques. I did not blow the whites but reduced exposure slightly in ACR to bring the RGB below 235
Selective sharpening on the bird and reduced the blue saturation slightly as well. Slight tone down of BG
Used a vertical crop to show some of the environment where this tern was hunting.
Thoughts and critics welcome
Happy new year to you all ;)
We were quite successful on the outing and I will be posting a few shots I took.
Here is one I thought was quite good trying out my 300f4 with no TC to as planning to finally buy a 500f4 soon and wanted to see the difference in sharpness
There was a pair of sandwich terns hunting close to the rocks and each time they pulled a fish they were mobbed by the local juvenile yellow legged gulls.
D800e
300mm @ f4
1/4000
ISO 200
Hand held with usual PP techniques. I did not blow the whites but reduced exposure slightly in ACR to bring the RGB below 235
Selective sharpening on the bird and reduced the blue saturation slightly as well. Slight tone down of BG
Used a vertical crop to show some of the environment where this tern was hunting.
Thoughts and critics welcome
Happy new year to you all ;)