Greater Yellowlegs
Here is the fruit of my labour from a wet and muddy morning last weekend spent photographing yellowlegs. Kinda jealous of the conditions Daniel has hadTechs | Canon 1D Mark IV | 500MM F4 vii | F5.6 | 1/1000 |ISO3200 | Manual exposure | rested on beanbag.
Super sharp image, light looks great as well, although wishing the brighter band in the sky was a little higher than merging with the top of the head, Lovely profile and water drop is a nice touch
I hope some of the color experts weigh in ... I think I see a bit of a magenta cast, but that is not my strong suit. ISO 3200 on your 1d4 looks great!
Sharp and interesting angle
looks good at 3200,
Nice looking pose and I love the detail at that high of ISO. I have never pushed my ISO that high on my MK4 but this shot gives me some confidence to try it. Maybe a touch of saturation boost? Well done.
This is an image Jaimie where I would have chosen a higher angle to avoid the white bg. The detail is great and I think a little more depth to image it would take it up a notch
Thanks for the feedback and here is a repost with a slightly different look than the original post. I decided to slightly mute the tones of the foreground and background giving the light a softer look more fitting to the actual scene. Increased the saturation a touch being mindful not to give the water a "radioactive" look :))), looked at the colour cast and tried to open up more detail from the mid tones. Let me know what you think and thanks again. The 1D Mark IV does perform pretty well at ISO3200 if you ETT. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, as they say.
Last edited by Jamie Douglas; 08-16-2013 at 12:42 AM.
Jamie, nice image, really sharp where it counts. Nice reflection in the bird eye. Looks a bit bright on my monitor, especially around the neck and upper half. I'd consider darken it a touch and improve the contrast there. Loi
He he, I've had my fair share of cloudy conditions...I was long overdue for early morning sunlight! As you can imagine I really like the ultra low angles, and I do here too (and kudos not being afraid to get wet and muddy), but I feel that bright area's line merging with the head was unfortunate. I do see a bit of a magenta cast, it is subtle, so adding a slight touch of green could help with that. Shorebird photography is my favorite type of bird photography...hope you get more chances at it!!
I like the image Jamie but I would personally reduce the crop and go for a 3:2 ratio. Only a personal point but I can't see the point of making the bird so large and eliminating so much of the surroundings which appear to be entirely complimentary, hope that doesn't sound too critical it isn't meant to be!
Cheers Jonathan and I am not one to take things the wrong way, well most of the time anyway unless we are talking about the 3:2 football result the other night ;)Originally Posted by Jonathan Ashton
I like the image Jamie but I would personally reduce the crop and go for a 3:2 ratio. Only a personal point but I can't see the point of making the bird so large and eliminating so much of the surroundings which appear to be entirely complimentary, hope that doesn't sound too critical it isn't meant to be!
This is roughly 85% of full frame give or take and was cropped really to help balance the image a little more than the FF image. I have my crop tool set to 3:2 so this should still be 3:2 but just taken in a bit from the original ff image. Do you think it would benefit from having the additional space reapplied if the balance is there in the FF?
Cheers
Jamie
Yes I would take another look at the original and place the bird more or less on the ROT or the golden ratio and if necessary recrop/add canvas using content aware.
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