Christof Ruch
01-04-2008, 05:33 PM
Ok, this is an image from my beginning of bird photography (so nearly a year old ;-), and browsing today - I found I am still attracted to it, though there are some obvious problems.
"Nowadays", I find the background too undecided, and the eye not prominent enough, sinking into the blacks. But I do like the curves here, the fluffy white foreground and the position of the eye right in the center.
I still find the RAW development of this rather high-key subject to be extremely difficult, and am not really satisfied with what I can do even today.
I do like a square crop on this one, cropping only from the right, but for the sake of this forum wanted to show the whole canvas.
Technical info:
D70 - Manual exposure with f/5 1/500, ISO 400, hand held. Fill flash with -2 EV from the little build-in flash, as the light is really coming from the left behind the bird.
Sigma 70-210 lens at 210. (Phew, do I *like* the Tokina 300/f4 I bought used shortly after this photo was made).
Any comments welcome - maybe also similar example images?
Christof
"Nowadays", I find the background too undecided, and the eye not prominent enough, sinking into the blacks. But I do like the curves here, the fluffy white foreground and the position of the eye right in the center.
I still find the RAW development of this rather high-key subject to be extremely difficult, and am not really satisfied with what I can do even today.
I do like a square crop on this one, cropping only from the right, but for the sake of this forum wanted to show the whole canvas.
Technical info:
D70 - Manual exposure with f/5 1/500, ISO 400, hand held. Fill flash with -2 EV from the little build-in flash, as the light is really coming from the left behind the bird.
Sigma 70-210 lens at 210. (Phew, do I *like* the Tokina 300/f4 I bought used shortly after this photo was made).
Any comments welcome - maybe also similar example images?
Christof