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Beautiful Image. Love the Colors on the Bird as well as the moses.
Open Bill add a lot to the image.
Excellent all round.
Can you check the specs, if you have 1.4x TCIII then the aperture should be f/5.6 right ?
TFS
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Hi Alex, agree with Krishna, great colours and the open bill is a killer, just wished for a bit more DoF for the legs as you had the SS, nice one.
TFS
Steve
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I like the open bill, BG and sharp where it needs to be. Nice image Alex.
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Very nice. Open bill is a bonus. Nice low angle as well. Like the green on the rocks.
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Thanks all, in hind sight a tad more DOF as mentioned would have helped.
Originally Posted by
Krishna Prasad kotti
Can you check the specs, if you have 1.4x TCIII then the aperture should be f/5.6 right ?
Krishna, sloppy copy and pasting on my end, this was taken without the 1.4 TC, so it was at f/4, but the focal length was just 300mm.
Best,
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Hi alex, I like this young one, and agree with more dof for those feet. Open beak calling is great.
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Nice pose with open beak helping the image come alive. Colours look good and I like the seaweed covered rock as the base. DOF already covered.
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Love getting so close to these guys on the jetty. I am heading there Friday afternoon if you want to come and meet up. You got a nice pose here and love the open beak. The out of focus rock on the lower right is distracting for me. Also the colors of the whole shot are too thin which is typical of how these sensors handle the flat light. I would for sure build it up a bit and add more depth to the bird and the rocks.
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Thanks all, appreciated. I'll look at building some depth back up -- I did the auto-tone at 20% opacity trick but could bump that up likely. Isaac, won't be able to head down tomorrow, but I'm aiming to make multiple trips there this winter so hopefully we can meet up at some point this season.
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I love the image with the open bill. I disagree with those who want the feet sharp but only 100%. Here's why. Assuming a distance of ten feet -- heck, you might have been closer than that, d-o-f at f/4 would be about 1/2 inch in front of and behind the point of focus. Stopping down to f/16 would raise that to 1.8 inches in front of and behind the point of focus. The distance from the bird's eye to its feet is about double that. And that is not taking into account that the bird is angled toward you effectively moving the feet even farther from the plane of focus. Good bye pleasing background at f/16. Heck, let's try f/32 ....
with love, artie
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