Glenn Pure
02-26-2018, 11:40 PM
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My first post in quite a while as I've been busy with other things and will be away again later this week. Anyway, this is a shot I took down our 'bush block' at the south coast of NSW where we have resident lyrebirds. I have been trying for several years to get a decent shot of one. They are the hardest birds to photograph as they live in relatively dense scrub and, being ground dwellers, are always wary. This one appeared (with two others) just above our bush shack. Fortunately, I was able to use our parked car as a blind to sneak up and managed to get quite close. The bird spent quite a long time preening and singing in relatively open situations and provided a great show for us. The light was terrible though as it was late in the day and drizzling lightly. So I had to use the car as a rest for the lens and push my luck with the ISO and shutter speed. I took lots of frames and hoped a few would be OK. The best shot I've managed yet but I live in hope of better one day. Shot is essentially full frame.
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 200mm handheld. Manual exposure 1/80 sec, f6.3, ISO 3200. 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.
My first post in quite a while as I've been busy with other things and will be away again later this week. Anyway, this is a shot I took down our 'bush block' at the south coast of NSW where we have resident lyrebirds. I have been trying for several years to get a decent shot of one. They are the hardest birds to photograph as they live in relatively dense scrub and, being ground dwellers, are always wary. This one appeared (with two others) just above our bush shack. Fortunately, I was able to use our parked car as a blind to sneak up and managed to get quite close. The bird spent quite a long time preening and singing in relatively open situations and provided a great show for us. The light was terrible though as it was late in the day and drizzling lightly. So I had to use the car as a rest for the lens and push my luck with the ISO and shutter speed. I took lots of frames and hoped a few would be OK. The best shot I've managed yet but I live in hope of better one day. Shot is essentially full frame.
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 200mm handheld. Manual exposure 1/80 sec, f6.3, ISO 3200. 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.