This Grebe was enjoying the lake along with a few ducks and Swamphens. Edited in acr and PS as well as some distractions in the water removed.
Canon 7Dii, 100-400@400mm, 1/800th sec, f8, iso400, AV mode, HH. Cheers.
This Grebe was enjoying the lake along with a few ducks and Swamphens. Edited in acr and PS as well as some distractions in the water removed.
Canon 7Dii, 100-400@400mm, 1/800th sec, f8, iso400, AV mode, HH. Cheers.
Nice grebe, I like the yellow. the bird is a bit soft and grainy on my screen... I wish the water was all blue
TFS
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Thanks Arash. Looks sharp to me on the head/neck area, which I was aiming for, but the grain may be due to the large crop needed. More nr on the bird maybe?
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I wont say image is tack sharp, sharp enough for some and not for me. I am on the borderline of Yes/No :-)
I like the water colors. I would clean up the foreground - remove the spots in the foreground.
My Experience is NR on Grebes is always Tricky. I like the yellow on the birds. Bird looks cool.
TFS
Paul looks like our Grebes till you get to the neck. I agree head and neck is soft. Boy that yellow really pops TFS.
I agree about sharpening the head and neck a little. lovely pose you captured. I would also try desaturating the whole image slightly.
Will
What a neat looking grebe. Yes to some more sharpening.
Yes, I did lift the exposure a little. Points noted however...cheers.
Thank you to all for the feedback and suggestions too.
Perfect eye contact, and the position in the frame is perfect with the full reflection included. I agree the image isn't perfectly sharp. Why f/8 when you had f/5.6? Wider aperture and lower angle would make for
a better isolated subject and more dramatic image.
Hi Dorian. Thank you for the feedback. I'm a little confused, I used f8 as I wanted more of the Grebe in focus, sharper and more dof. How would f5.6 give a more isolated subject in this case as the BG is just water. I agree re getting lower however. Am I missing something here with the aperture?
A nice inquisitive pose and yes to a bit. crunchy. I think that reducing the contrast a bit might improve it.
Here is what you are missing with regards to. d-o-f: you stated that this was a relatively large crop. That meant that you were a good distance from the bird, let's say 40 feet. At that distance at f/5.6 you would have had just about 6 inches od sharp focus in front of the bird and 6 inches behind the bird. That is way, way more than you needed to cover. the bird. So Dorian was suggesting that you would have been much better off at 1/1600 sec. at f/5.6 than at 1/800 sec. at f/8. See my comments on d-o-f on the blog for forever :)
Here is another way of looking at this: with your gear, you have wide open aperture viewing; no matter what aperture you set, you are viewing the image at f/5.6. If the whole bird looks sharp through the viewfinder, there is no need to stop! down!
with love, artie
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Hi Artie. Thanks so much for the feedback and info. It now makes sense to me, especially the "no matter what aperture you set, you are viewing the image at f/5.6" you stated. I'd almost forgotten about the dof preview button that shows the "actual" dof. Cheers!
If you had pressed the d-o-f button the bird would have been unchanged. Only a bit more of the water in front of and behind the bird would have been sharper ...
YAW. with love, a
ps: In 36 years I have pretty much never used the preview button for any type of photography (much less birds ... :)
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