Hope this is worthy. I'm starting to get a bit more serious. Would love to hear some feedback.
I didn't want to lose the detail in black areas.
Shot with 40D and 400 f/5.6. - f/7.1 at 1/250. +.33EV
Baltimore Oriole - 1st post
Hope this is worthy. I'm starting to get a bit more serious. Would love to hear some feedback.
I didn't want to lose the detail in black areas.
Shot with 40D and 400 f/5.6. - f/7.1 at 1/250. +.33EV
Welcome!
Welcome Randy! Nice bird and BG. Did you do any photoshop work? The bird could use some sharpening. The harsh lighting is a really hard thing to deal with. It looks like midday light. It is tempting to shoot great subject matter (the bird) at the wrong time of day, I know, I am guilt:-( . The advise that I have been given is to shoot morning and evening and do the computer work at midday (or take a nap!)
Dan Brown,
Sacramento
Hey Dan... Yes this was shot around 02:30 in afternoon. It's the only light I have with such a shaded area. The only pp was
a bit of selective smart sharpen on bird. Hmmm... How about upping ISO and stepping down a bit ?
welcome Randy.....first thing, you have presented this is Adobe RGB.
Slould be converted to sRGB colorspace for best web presentation....you color will appear
very muted and a bit muddy to most
Randy, I believe Dan is referring to sharpening the bird in pp, not getting sharpness from dof(stopping down)
Oranges, yellows, reds are very hard to tame in bright light.
One suggestion is to reduce saturation in appropriate channel and display in sRGB
here is a quick rework doing just that. but also did a lightening of the head
Thanks ! I let Adobe manage colors for printing on 9500. Seems I have a bit more practice and reading to do.Originally Posted by Dave Phillips
Ceartainly appreciate your time.
Thanks,
Randy
Beautiful bird - like the repost.
If it was me I would remove the chain via a QM in Photoshop.
Lance
Dave did well with the repost.
Randy, regarding the harsh light - the feeders in my yard are in shade when I photograph at them. I used ISO 800 with my 1D Mark III and a bit of fill-flash. Your 40D should go to ISO 800 w/o much noise and add a bit of flash and you will be surprised as to the results.
Welcome to the BPN family Randy,
Beautifull composition; the colors on your bird are very nice. I do like the repost. I would by personal taste, clone out or remove the chain...:D Once again, welcome to the family and congrats...keep them coming...:)
Randy with so much light I don't see the need to go for a high ISO?
Stopping down would depend on what you are trying to do. If you have a far away bg then you can afford to do so. If I need to blur the bg just go wide open. Getting enough dof on this little guys is nearly impossible. At close range is is minimal. Normally I make sure the eye is sharp and the image will look good.
At time you will hear to stop down in oder to have the tail sharp. Well if you could stop down to f 64 it would not work. Will try to come up with a dof table and post !!!
I like the pose and framing very much. Appealing image. Looking forward to many more!!!
Hi Randy,
Lots of good info from the group. Nice image!
Great shot Randy. Agree with the group specially about removing the chain.
Big Welcome.
Regards,
Thanks everyone for your input and hospitality. Sorry took so long to reply. Here's applied PP feedback:
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