Brian Barcelos
10-23-2009, 12:28 PM
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While driving around looking for my Red-Tailed buddy I found this guy instead happily feasting on a House Sparrow. Wasn't too happy with the shooting angle and distracting branches all around. Bye the time I decided he was quite comfortable with my presence I was about to climb onto the roof of my car to get a better angle but four unruly crows decided they didn't want any Merlin in their turf and scared him away. Boy was I P.Oed. Oh well maybe next time.
The dark shadows on him were from a tree behind me and when I tried exposing to bring out more details I was blowing the whites and yellows so I decided to under expose a little and bring out the darks in pp. This was cropped to a Vert. This was the best I could manage. Hope it's acceptable. All C/C greatly appreciated.
Canon EOS 50D
Aperture-Priority AE
Tv 1/1600
Av 8.0
Evaluative Metering
Exposure Comp -2/3
ISO 640
Tamron 200-500mm
Focal Length 500.0 mm
While driving around looking for my Red-Tailed buddy I found this guy instead happily feasting on a House Sparrow. Wasn't too happy with the shooting angle and distracting branches all around. Bye the time I decided he was quite comfortable with my presence I was about to climb onto the roof of my car to get a better angle but four unruly crows decided they didn't want any Merlin in their turf and scared him away. Boy was I P.Oed. Oh well maybe next time.
The dark shadows on him were from a tree behind me and when I tried exposing to bring out more details I was blowing the whites and yellows so I decided to under expose a little and bring out the darks in pp. This was cropped to a Vert. This was the best I could manage. Hope it's acceptable. All C/C greatly appreciated.
Canon EOS 50D
Aperture-Priority AE
Tv 1/1600
Av 8.0
Evaluative Metering
Exposure Comp -2/3
ISO 640
Tamron 200-500mm
Focal Length 500.0 mm