Glenn Pure
01-23-2018, 09:38 PM
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A small group of relatively tame mallards were hanging our vehicle while we stopped for a break. Of course, they had food on their minds but didn't have any luck with us. Either way, it enabled some close encounters at eye level, this shot among them. In hindsight, I should have stopped down a little more and upped the ISO to compensate but feel the DOF works as presented with this one. I've just taken a whisker off the left of the frame for this crop.
Thank you for looking and for any comments you are kind enough to share.
Technical: Canon 80D with EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM at 400mm handheld. Manual exposure 1/200 sec, f7.1, ISO 1000. Processed in Canon DPP 4 (digital lens optimiser @ 50, sharpness = 3, crop, lighting adjustments, NR) then exported 16 bit TIFF to Photoshop Elements with Neat Image NR plugin. Modest NR to bird and stronger NR to background. Bird only sharpened in PSE (Sharpness tool, remove Gaussian Blur: 0.6 pixels at 50%) after final size reduction.
A small group of relatively tame mallards were hanging our vehicle while we stopped for a break. Of course, they had food on their minds but didn't have any luck with us. Either way, it enabled some close encounters at eye level, this shot among them. In hindsight, I should have stopped down a little more and upped the ISO to compensate but feel the DOF works as presented with this one. I've just taken a whisker off the left of the frame for this crop.
Thank you for looking and for any comments you are kind enough to share.
Technical: Canon 80D with EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM at 400mm handheld. Manual exposure 1/200 sec, f7.1, ISO 1000. Processed in Canon DPP 4 (digital lens optimiser @ 50, sharpness = 3, crop, lighting adjustments, NR) then exported 16 bit TIFF to Photoshop Elements with Neat Image NR plugin. Modest NR to bird and stronger NR to background. Bird only sharpened in PSE (Sharpness tool, remove Gaussian Blur: 0.6 pixels at 50%) after final size reduction.