paul leverington
02-01-2009, 06:03 PM
600/4 Mark III 1/1250@F4 ISO 800 two days ago
When conceiving this shot I was trying to have a lot of comp lines going in one direction and then juxtapose a line tangent(wings) to those lines so as to upset the viewers eye and augment the power of that opposing line in the process. Inspiration was from one of those painters who did the same thing with just brushstrokes of paint. Can't remember his name but I'm sure he sold that painting for millions(and many others similar he did), which I'm sure is a couple of dollars more than I'd ever get for this shot. Anyways, after doing all the planning and putting in all the patience, I'm starting to look at a further cropped in version of this shot as being more powerful. And all that planning and patience of the original concept idea is kind of a moot point with that version. This shot is intended from concept to be printed large on canvas so maybe this version I feel will work fine for that. I might post the other cropped version later to see what all of you folks think.
I shot this at 1/1250 because thats the speed at which if I go any slower, would produce objectionable wing blur to my eye. F4 is definitely not where I want to be, but already at ISO 800, I had little room to go anywhere else except to back up more and then the snow in the air really starts to become a factor to shoot through. Plus loss of detail with a greater distance.
Also the bird is shot at full frame and immediately after he left the perch I shot a four shot pano of the scene, then stiched all that together. I do this all the time so as to get enough pixels to give a good large canvas print.
When our cameras give us 400 iso quality at 1600 iso, that will be the day of a lot more overall sharp bird pics(from stem to stern I'm refering to). Even at iso 800 I feel the mark III did a fine job. I didn't bother at all with any noise reduction. And for what it's worth, extra grain and texture look much better on large canvas and is actually desirable(of course to a point).
Would like to hear from folks at this site how effective they feel the power of this shot is as one that includes a lot of enviorment. It didn't seem to move many at another site and I'm just wondering if I need to go with a tighter crop which then becomes more of a composition within the birds body itself. Of all the things that I agonize over the crop seems to be the most troubling for me.
Thanks for the visit--
Paul
When conceiving this shot I was trying to have a lot of comp lines going in one direction and then juxtapose a line tangent(wings) to those lines so as to upset the viewers eye and augment the power of that opposing line in the process. Inspiration was from one of those painters who did the same thing with just brushstrokes of paint. Can't remember his name but I'm sure he sold that painting for millions(and many others similar he did), which I'm sure is a couple of dollars more than I'd ever get for this shot. Anyways, after doing all the planning and putting in all the patience, I'm starting to look at a further cropped in version of this shot as being more powerful. And all that planning and patience of the original concept idea is kind of a moot point with that version. This shot is intended from concept to be printed large on canvas so maybe this version I feel will work fine for that. I might post the other cropped version later to see what all of you folks think.
I shot this at 1/1250 because thats the speed at which if I go any slower, would produce objectionable wing blur to my eye. F4 is definitely not where I want to be, but already at ISO 800, I had little room to go anywhere else except to back up more and then the snow in the air really starts to become a factor to shoot through. Plus loss of detail with a greater distance.
Also the bird is shot at full frame and immediately after he left the perch I shot a four shot pano of the scene, then stiched all that together. I do this all the time so as to get enough pixels to give a good large canvas print.
When our cameras give us 400 iso quality at 1600 iso, that will be the day of a lot more overall sharp bird pics(from stem to stern I'm refering to). Even at iso 800 I feel the mark III did a fine job. I didn't bother at all with any noise reduction. And for what it's worth, extra grain and texture look much better on large canvas and is actually desirable(of course to a point).
Would like to hear from folks at this site how effective they feel the power of this shot is as one that includes a lot of enviorment. It didn't seem to move many at another site and I'm just wondering if I need to go with a tighter crop which then becomes more of a composition within the birds body itself. Of all the things that I agonize over the crop seems to be the most troubling for me.
Thanks for the visit--
Paul