gail bisson
07-26-2014, 06:33 AM
Canon 1 DX
600mm and 1.4X
ISO 400 F 5.6 SS 1/1000
I was incredibly fortunate to watch this amazing sandpiper display for his lady. I was also a "bad" photographer who got caught up in the excitement of the moment of seeing this "lifer" and didn't check my settings. I took about 75 frames of this display but because my DOF was so shallow, the head was ever so slightly out of focus on most of them. The bird was also looking the other way for a lot of these images. This is full frame crop from horizontal. I had to add a sliver of canvas to the bottom of the frame (2%) and took the same amount off the top.
There was a grass that was sticking directly into his butt so I cloned that out.
Comments and critiques always appreciated and learned from.
My next post will show the other wing raised with a view of the under wing visible.
My usual PP: NR to BG, levels,boosted saturation by +2, above mentioned cloning, DE to bird and USM to JPEG
Gail
600mm and 1.4X
ISO 400 F 5.6 SS 1/1000
I was incredibly fortunate to watch this amazing sandpiper display for his lady. I was also a "bad" photographer who got caught up in the excitement of the moment of seeing this "lifer" and didn't check my settings. I took about 75 frames of this display but because my DOF was so shallow, the head was ever so slightly out of focus on most of them. The bird was also looking the other way for a lot of these images. This is full frame crop from horizontal. I had to add a sliver of canvas to the bottom of the frame (2%) and took the same amount off the top.
There was a grass that was sticking directly into his butt so I cloned that out.
Comments and critiques always appreciated and learned from.
My next post will show the other wing raised with a view of the under wing visible.
My usual PP: NR to BG, levels,boosted saturation by +2, above mentioned cloning, DE to bird and USM to JPEG
Gail