Pacific Swallow

[Phil Liew]

The wind was pretty strong in this one although not apparent but was moving the perch in the lake some 25m off. I used a 2.0II ext to get the reach but stopped it down to keep the sharpness and pushed the ISO up. I would like to think it worked well here.

1D MkIII + EF600m + 2.0II ext
1/250s f/13.0 EV +1/3 iso1250 Av priority Evaluative metering

http://www.pbase.com/996sps/image/88049736.jpg

[Daniel Cadieux]

Hi Phil, since the bird is actually looking towards our right this is where the empty space should be. Less than ideal perch unfortunately. Good head angle and nice clean BG :-)

[Doug Brown]

Pretty good sharpness considering the focal length and shutter speed. Agree that space needs to be to the right of the bird. I would tone down the perch a little. Thanks for posting!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the pose, details and BG. I cropped differently, applied S/H, increased the saturation and removed the noise in the BG. If you start from your RAW file it would look better.

[Maxis Gamez]

Re-post works for me very well!

[Phil Liew]

Thanks for all for comments, suggestions and Axel your re-post.

Here's mine, re-worked from RAW. Still a little bit of noise though.

http://www.pbase.com/image/100636713.jpg

[Axel Hildebrandt]

The repost works much better, I would put the bird a bit higher in the frame and run NR on the BG.