Female Hooded Merganser
Unfortunately, the original is under a bit. Tried my best to fix it.
Fuji S5, 200-400 + 1.4 = 550mm on monopod; f5.6 1/500; ISO 640; manual exposure mode.
She kept swimming away and I kept trying to capture her on film...or is it memory card now. Finally she swam into the shadow; I forgot to adjust the exposure accordingly. :o
Appreciate your critiques. Thanks for looking !
Love the backlighting on the top of the head, nice reflection.
Might need a tad more canvas at the back of the bird and a little bit of BG noise in some spots in my humble opinion.
Lance
I love the image - colours are beautiful and to me the background noise is not a problem. Could the angle of capture be even lower?
Nicki
exposure still looks pretty good to me. a few things that pop out at me are........there is an area around the reflection of the birds head that is really noisy. looks like you gaussian blurred the bg and missed those areas?......and there is four white specs in the water around the refection of its head that is distracting to me too. not trying to be picky!!! i just like your photo a lot and wanted to help you make it perfect!!
Nice capture,
Great colors and background...:cool:
Hey I'm always just impressed as all get out when someone gets this close to a Merg!:D
Love the color and reflection, everything else covered
Hi Desmond !!! Good points form previous Particularly like the extending canvas, the image is very tight in frame. You need to give it space particularly up front, room to swim into.
Exposure wise you came up with a good point here !!! I probably use more Av than most. No method is full proof as you can see by the manual exp in this image. Bird goes in the shade and its under. With Av you would have been over since the meter sees the dark and opens up. In this situation I use the compensation dial and make the adjustment. Basically happens automatically.
What a great bird and the bg color is wonderful. Dontcha just sometimes wish you could "rewind" time and do a takeover?
Basically, I wanted to get a shot off before she disappeared. I did add compensation using the AV button. I just didn't know it wouldn't work in all manual mode :oOriginally Posted by Alfred Forns
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