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Taken a few months ago. This was my favourite gannet shot, still is. I had to climb halfway down the cliff for this:D. From memory the background is a sandy cliff or sand stone. The sun was getting quite low.
Muriwai Beach, NZ.
canon 40d
100-400L IS
1/640 @ f16
ISO 400 (auto)
flash (can't remember flash settings, no info in metadata)
Very nice portrait, good head angle, sharpness and BG colors. It could go a tad lighter for my taste and I would run NR on the BG. If it were mine, I would remove the dark vertical area underneath the tip of the bill.
Martin:
Very nice indeed. Agree with Axel about the NR on background, and the dark vertical line beneath bill.
On my monitor, I really like the luminosity of the image. I tend to like images a bit darker than the average person, so take that into account,but this one looks fine to me.
Randy
Axel & Randy, thanks for the advice. Yes I the vertical line will go. In LR2 is it possible to do NR on BG without affecting the bird? The only way I know of is to slide up the recovery slider which does the whole photo.
Cheers
Martin
What a lovely close-up. Understand why its your favourite. NR on the BG should take partly care of the black line too.
Very nice portrait, Martin. Muriwai is a great spot (hoping to get there again later this month)- if the weather co-operates you can get nice sunset BG and fillflash the bird as you have done very nicely here. Your small aperture have given a good DOF to maximise the feather textures. Good advice on removing the dark streak in the BG. Not sure that you can do selective NR in LR - I always do this in PS on a layer so can mask it to where I want it. Pushing up recovery slider is mainly to try and recover bright highlights that are clipping.
Thanks Tony, I suspected as much about NR in LR. I'm just coming to grips with LR, now looks like I may have to get PS and start learning all over again.
Cheers
