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First post here, hopefully first on many. Finally got some good flight shots for me, not blurred. Had plenty of time to focus in as they circled around in front of me. Shot is slightly cropped to get the half geese out of the shot due to fixed focal lens. Shot with D200 and 300mm f/4, ISO 200, 1/4000.
Nice first post and welcome to BPN. for f/4 you got some good depth of field (DOF) and both are in focus.
Preferably a full up or down wing stroke is what you are looking to get. Here full down on the bottom goose and full up on the top goose would be perfect. That's where some bit of luck comes in. You did good getting the flight image sharp and you position to them is good with them still coming at you (your aimed left).
Looking forward to more images. Thanks for posting.
Welcome to BPN j-s (?). I find the cropping a little tight. Another alternative would have been to crop less aggressively and clone out the other birds that you speak of...very easy to do with a uniform sky. A bit of S/H to bring out the shadows would be good. Keep them coming!
P.S. You can PM Alfred Forns to have him change your name or you (we like and encourage real names here on BPN ;-)
Welcome, John. Great first post - superb focus and sharpness. Agree with the above comments especially trying to pull more shadow detail out. It may be worth adjusting your sharpening parameters a little as there are prominent halos. Looking forward to more of your images.
Wellcome on board and very nice first post. I agree with Robert considerations and Daniel gave a very good advice to fix the tightness of the image. S/H filter can add a lot to this image. Hope to see more of your work and let us know what do you think about other members images :-)
Thanks all, just some questions, what is the S/H filter, how do you pull more shadow detail,and how are these done? Unfortunatly I am limited because I am still using Photoshop 7. Any help is appreciated, thanks again.
John
