Mark Schmitt
03-28-2010, 09:52 PM
This bird is not found in great numbers in the area in which it was photographed. In fact, my brother and I had spent the entire day looking for this bird, from before sunrise to dusk. After conceding that we were not going to find it we decided to head for a camping site for the night. As luck would have it, on the road to the site, this bird was spotted on a stump, right at road-side. Fortunately, as many of you know, this is a bird that is very confiding and will alow very close approaches.
The light was very low so an ISO of 1000 was used ( on a Canon 30D that is asking for trouble). So needless to say there will be some noise and aberation in the image.
PP: a good amount of material was removed from the BG and, I would have liked to have taken out the bit of currant bush cutting through the bird, but decided to leave it in. ( another way of saying, "too much work";))
Color saturation was done using "channel mix" instead of "Hue/Sat" as it alows me to work with the color channels individually.
EXIF
Canon 30D
EF 500 IS L + 1.4 T/C effective focal length 700mm
Metering: pattern
ISO: 1000
Exp: 1/320 @ f 5.6 + 1/3 comp. (which was scarry because I had to hand hold the rig)
White bal:5250 ( though I should have set for 6000 because of the cool temp at dusk and all of the shadows, this was compensated for in Lightroom RAW by selecting for the appropriate temp)
The light was very low so an ISO of 1000 was used ( on a Canon 30D that is asking for trouble). So needless to say there will be some noise and aberation in the image.
PP: a good amount of material was removed from the BG and, I would have liked to have taken out the bit of currant bush cutting through the bird, but decided to leave it in. ( another way of saying, "too much work";))
Color saturation was done using "channel mix" instead of "Hue/Sat" as it alows me to work with the color channels individually.
EXIF
Canon 30D
EF 500 IS L + 1.4 T/C effective focal length 700mm
Metering: pattern
ISO: 1000
Exp: 1/320 @ f 5.6 + 1/3 comp. (which was scarry because I had to hand hold the rig)
White bal:5250 ( though I should have set for 6000 because of the cool temp at dusk and all of the shadows, this was compensated for in Lightroom RAW by selecting for the appropriate temp)