Glenn Pure
08-20-2017, 09:15 PM
171040
This was a very lucky shot. These birds are small and fast-moving, often flying erratically just to make life difficult. Also lucky because it was the only frame in the burst that was good, and with wing position a bonus. I have cloned out a smudge just behind the bird's rump. The background is an OOF dam at a golf course close to home. The bird had been perched on a dead branch in the water drinking as I waited and hoped. The crop is fairly severe and represents just over an eighth of the frame.
Thank you for looking and any comments you may have.
Technical: Canon 80D with EF 100-400 (MkII) at 400mm handheld. Manual exposure 1/2500 sec, f7.1, ISO 1000 - in hindsight a wider aperture and faster SS would have helped. Processed in Canon DPP 4 (digital lens optimiser, crop, lighting adjustments, default NR) then exported 16 bit TIFF to Photoshop Elements with Neat Image NR plugin. Very light NR applied to bird and stronger NR to background. Sharpened after size reduction (bird only).
This was a very lucky shot. These birds are small and fast-moving, often flying erratically just to make life difficult. Also lucky because it was the only frame in the burst that was good, and with wing position a bonus. I have cloned out a smudge just behind the bird's rump. The background is an OOF dam at a golf course close to home. The bird had been perched on a dead branch in the water drinking as I waited and hoped. The crop is fairly severe and represents just over an eighth of the frame.
Thank you for looking and any comments you may have.
Technical: Canon 80D with EF 100-400 (MkII) at 400mm handheld. Manual exposure 1/2500 sec, f7.1, ISO 1000 - in hindsight a wider aperture and faster SS would have helped. Processed in Canon DPP 4 (digital lens optimiser, crop, lighting adjustments, default NR) then exported 16 bit TIFF to Photoshop Elements with Neat Image NR plugin. Very light NR applied to bird and stronger NR to background. Sharpened after size reduction (bird only).