Jay Gould
02-08-2010, 05:08 PM
This "landscape" was made at the Salisbury Plains, South Georgia and depicts a small portion of over 200,000 breeding King Penguins.
I have posted this for a few of reasons - 1) to share an amazing experience (we are still dreaming of penguins and ice bergs; it is absolutely amazing to walk amongst thousand of penguins mere feet from you and have them look up at you and then ignore you!), 2) Randy in the King Penguin Profile thread http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=55930 said we would like to see "more of the body" - Randy, not possible with the Profile as that is all there is; however, here are lots of whole bodies, and 3) to discuss the settings.
I realize that I should have increased ISO for more SS; should I have also sacrificed DOF for SS?
While the mountains give perspective to the location, would you crop away some of the mountain perhaps down to the snow line on the right side, or more?
Camera: 5D2
Capture date/time: 9 Jan 10; 7:40am
Light condition: grey!
Lens: 24-105 f/4
Focal length: 105mm
Distance: 12m
Extender: none
Tube: none
Flash/Comp: no;
ISO: 400
Exp Prog: Av
Speed: 1/25 sec
Aperture: f/18
Exp Comp: + 1 2/3
Metering: Evaluative
WB: Auto
AF Drive: AI Servo
Tripod: yes
Filter: none
Crop: minimal
Processed in LR 3 (beta) and then resized in CS4 - plus Pixel Genius Sharpening.
All C&Cs gratefully appreciated!
I have posted this for a few of reasons - 1) to share an amazing experience (we are still dreaming of penguins and ice bergs; it is absolutely amazing to walk amongst thousand of penguins mere feet from you and have them look up at you and then ignore you!), 2) Randy in the King Penguin Profile thread http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=55930 said we would like to see "more of the body" - Randy, not possible with the Profile as that is all there is; however, here are lots of whole bodies, and 3) to discuss the settings.
I realize that I should have increased ISO for more SS; should I have also sacrificed DOF for SS?
While the mountains give perspective to the location, would you crop away some of the mountain perhaps down to the snow line on the right side, or more?
Camera: 5D2
Capture date/time: 9 Jan 10; 7:40am
Light condition: grey!
Lens: 24-105 f/4
Focal length: 105mm
Distance: 12m
Extender: none
Tube: none
Flash/Comp: no;
ISO: 400
Exp Prog: Av
Speed: 1/25 sec
Aperture: f/18
Exp Comp: + 1 2/3
Metering: Evaluative
WB: Auto
AF Drive: AI Servo
Tripod: yes
Filter: none
Crop: minimal
Processed in LR 3 (beta) and then resized in CS4 - plus Pixel Genius Sharpening.
All C&Cs gratefully appreciated!