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    Default I Got It!

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    I was riding around the Viera Wetlands in Floridab and came across this Great Egret starting to eat a frog. I hopped out of may car with Nikon D200, a 500mm manual focus lens, and 1.4X Teleconverter and quickly walked down a slope to capture this photo. The camera setting wrere ISO 400, f4, speed 1/2500. I didn't have time to set-up a tripod. I shot it in RAW and only used Adobe LightRoom to enhance it. Would feedback on this photo. Thanks ADubin
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    Default Nice Timing

    You were lucky to get such a shot perfect timing, maybe not for the frog :( The whites are over exposed.

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    You did quite well, considering you didn't have a tripod. The whites are certainly over exposed. The timing of the capture was excellent. It reminds me of the T shirt image where the frog is holding the birds throat and has the caption "Never give up"

    Cheers Mike

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    must say what unique timing... amazing caught with a frog,...!!! agree whites are sadly very over exposed, which is an awful shame... but lovely timing.. ! never seen that before. N

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    unique image. I am happy not being a frog........ If shot in raw, maybe you can restore some details in the whites. The images aooears a bit soft to me

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    Welcome, Arnold. Great timing! I don't know how you cropped it. I would either prefer the entire bird including legs or a tighter portrait. Since you shot RAW you can work on the overexposed highlights but it seems OOF or unsharpened since motion blur is unlikely at that shutter speed. I would have stopped down to f/8 or so for wider DOF.

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    With all due respect, the whites looked pretty good on my monitor so I saved the image and opened it in Photoshop. Opening the histogram in Levels showed that there were very few overexposed white pixels but that the bill was well overexposed. I reduced the yellow Saturation 13 points and that left only a very few overexposed white pixels. With images like this, converting the RAW a bit darker (and in Combined Mode if you have that as you do in BreezeBrowser) will save all the detail.

    I love the look of the image, the big frog, the background colors, the composition, and the crop. The huge problem is that the image is not sharply focused on the frog. When you are using manual focus it is absolutely imperative that you work on a tripod. No matter how hard you try to remain still your body is always moving slightly so focus will be off unless you get lucky (which did not happen here...)

    Trust me on the above: always use a tripod if you have to focus manually...

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    Artie,

    You are dead on about the histogram and the photo is really not being over exposed. I was documenting this active of the Great Egret so I didn't get the opportunity to use my tripod. Again your 100% correct about using a tripod when shooting with a manual focusing lens. When I enlarged the photo on Photoshop I could see that it wasn't tack sharp. I really appreciate you taking the time to critique my photo.

    Shalom,

    Arnold. :)
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    With all due respect, the whites looked pretty good on my monitor so I saved the image and opened it in Photoshop. Opening the histogram in Levels showed that there were very few overexposed white pixels but that the bill was well overexposed. I reduced the yellow Saturation 13 points and that left only a very few overexposed white pixels. With images like this, converting the RAW a bit darker (and in Combined Mode if you have that as you do in BreezeBrowser) will save all the detail.

    I love the look of the image, the big frog, the background colors, the composition, and the crop. The huge problem is that the image is not sharply focused on the frog. When you are using manual focus it is absolutely imperative that you work on a tripod. No matter how hard you try to remain still your body is always moving slightly so focus will be off unless you get lucky (which did not happen here...)

    Trust me on the above: always use a tripod if you have to focus manually...

    later and love,

    artie

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    I want thank everybody for providing me feedback on my photo.

    Arnold

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    YAW and l'chaim.

    And later and love, artie
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    Great catch and I really love it even if it's too soft.:)

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