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Beautiful bird nicely captured, Willie! A pity it was halfway in the sun/shade as it poses it's own challenges with proper exposure and overall look & feel. The BG twigs are a little sharp & thus somewhat distracting so a wider aperture might have done some good (always easy to say in hidsight!). In a perfect world a different colour surrounding the bird would accentuate the its grey colour more, but you've had no control over that. The crop is perhaps a little tight on the RHS. Regardless of all of that: a nice pic, keep on snapping!
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Tobie about covers it, not much to add other than maybe tone down the highs a touch? Interesting capture, sometimes you just have to take what is offered. Re: Storage- if you travel with a laptop, I'd recommend shooting RAW+Jpeg and downloading in the car, or back at the Hotel if possible. This would take the load off of processing large files until you have the time. Looking forward to more from this trip!
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If downloading and processing is not an option on a trip, then you could always have extra storage cards on hand. You can also do some on-the-fly chimping to get rid of the obvious junk. Anything you can do to avoid shooting in jpeg will be worth it when you finally get to processing your images.
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Randall Farhy
Tobie about covers it, not much to add other than maybe tone down the highs a touch? Interesting capture, sometimes you just have to take what is offered. Re: Storage- if you travel with a laptop, I'd recommend shooting RAW+Jpeg and downloading in the car, or back at the Hotel if possible. This would take the load off of processing large files until you have the time. Looking forward to more from this trip!
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Agreed, once you start shooting RAW and seeing the potential of it there really is no going back.
I almost always shoot in Av mode, and then adjust the evaluating meter or ISO depending on what I want.
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Good coverage above -- would have been nice to see if the bird would give a more upright pose, but maybe it didn't. Keep working on it!
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Really nice bird. I agree it would have been nice if it wasn't in the shadow.
I never shoot jpeg at all as you are limiting your cameras ability. Even if you didn't want to spend time processing you could do an auto tone in pp to all images and then export as jpeg to give you a similar result but still have the raw to go back to later. Many times people on here go back to images they took years before as their processing skills increase.
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What Iain said! Storage is cheap compared to camera gear. And processing can be done at home -- shooting JPEG + RAW gives you a fair look at what you got. In the coming years your skill at processing will increase and the software will get better. Don't throw away your digital negatives. Shooting JPEG has been likened to shooting print film, having it developed and throwing away the negatives before you even look at the prints.
Haveing the best processing flexibility is even more important for someone who is new to photography, because you will make more images that aren't captured under optimal circumstances and could profit from the extra processing power you have with a RAW file.
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thanks everyone for the feedback, I love being outdoors so much and shooting that I have not taken adequate time for learning PP.....will get to it.
