Glossy Ibis feeding young

[Sid Garige]

Captured on last weekend trip to Tampa bay with James.
Green backgrounds and colorful Glossy ibis produced some wonderful opportunities.
D300 200-400mm VR
F8 1/1200

[Aidan Briggs]

Nice green BG, exposure, and interaction. The heads of both the birds look slightly soft, but it could just be me. I would tone down the brighter parts of the bills.

[Joe Senzatimore]

Great behavior captured. Image seems soft overall. Love the comp. and colors.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the interaction and angle and agree with Aidan regarding sharpening more and toning down the bills.

[denise ippolito]

The interaction is great and I agree w/ toning down the bills. I love the green BG!

[Harshad Barve]

lovely Bg , expo. & compo , nice action here
Agreed on sharning and toning down bills
TFS

[Milan V]

A little bit soft for me, but great action and dof.

[Morkel Erasmus]

I agree on looking soft on the heads - but a nice image overall! some TLC will improve it even further.

[Arthur Morris]

Great timing and COMP and action. A Linear Burn on the lightest portion of the two bills (esp. the juvie) would be an improvement. The heads both look pretty sharp. The wing blur (a lot for 1/1200 sec!) on the juvie bugs me a bit. All in all, PDC = pretty darned cool.

[Sid Garige]

The heads both look pretty sharp.

Artie,

Getting little confused here. I processed the image on a 19" Monitor at resolution 1440 x 900 (pixel size 0.2842 mm). Image was sharp and I did not see any issues.

Came to work today morning and looked at the image on 17" Laptop at resolution 1440 x 900 ( pixel size 0.2543 mm )
Image was really soft and bright. Calibrated the laptop, brightness was fixed but image was soft.

Went back to a 21" Dell monitor at resolution 1680 x 1050 (pixel size 0.2692 mm). Sharpness was better than 17" laptop but was not what I saw on my 19" screen.

I am suspecting resolution of the monitor ( especially pixel size has some thing to do with this.)

Reading more on this to understand the hole concept jpgs and pixel size. I will keep you posted.

Can I get your monitor size and display resolution pls? I want to see why you are seeing a sharper image and not others. May be your pixel size match my monitor pixel size.

Here is a reference table for monitor size, resolution and pixel size.
http://www.prismo.ch/comparisons/desktop.php


The wing blur (a lot for 1/1200 sec!) on the juvie bugs me a bit. All in all, PDC = pretty darned cool.

I think it has to do with the orientation of wing. Juv wing is not on film plane.

Thanks
Sid

[Daniel Belasco]

Very nice catch. I've never seen a glossy feed their young, and must unusual to see it in the open.

[Arthur Morris]

Hey Sid, I am a technical dummy; is this what you are looking for: 1680 X 1050?

[Sid Garige]

Hey Sid, I am a technical dummy; is this what you are looking for: 1680 X 1050?
Artie,

Thanks for quick response. what size is your monitor? (21"?)

-Sid

[Arthur Morris]

YAW. 17 inches diagonally.

[Sid Garige]

Artie,

Thanks for the feedback.

I started a new thread here

http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=42700

-Sid