Robert Amoruso
06-01-2008, 01:41 PM
Made this weekend at Viera Wetlands, the wetlands is developing quite a population of gators.
Flash is providing a good portion of the illumination on the gator with the shutter speed chosen to give the correct ambient light exposure. Even though I use Manual most of the time, if I am just photographing against a water or sky background pre-dawn, I will use +2 as a starting point in AV Automatic giving me the correct BG exposure.
I did do a gray point balance on the image. The warm color is due to the sunrise and not PS. Shadow/Highlight to open up the gator's shadows more. Clean up a bit of junk in the water. I love the definition and reflection of the back especially.
Canon 1D mark III, 600mm + 1.4xTC (840mm)
1/125 sec, f/5.6
Mode: Av
Metering: Evaluative
Exp comp: +1 2/3
ISO: 160
Flash: External E-TTL
Flash exp comp: +3
I posted a traditional crop in the Wildlife forum. Take a look and see which you like better.
http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?p=90729
Flash is providing a good portion of the illumination on the gator with the shutter speed chosen to give the correct ambient light exposure. Even though I use Manual most of the time, if I am just photographing against a water or sky background pre-dawn, I will use +2 as a starting point in AV Automatic giving me the correct BG exposure.
I did do a gray point balance on the image. The warm color is due to the sunrise and not PS. Shadow/Highlight to open up the gator's shadows more. Clean up a bit of junk in the water. I love the definition and reflection of the back especially.
Canon 1D mark III, 600mm + 1.4xTC (840mm)
1/125 sec, f/5.6
Mode: Av
Metering: Evaluative
Exp comp: +1 2/3
ISO: 160
Flash: External E-TTL
Flash exp comp: +3
I posted a traditional crop in the Wildlife forum. Take a look and see which you like better.
http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?p=90729