Every year the pair rebuild this nest. The nest is on a platform on top of a utility pole on a urban street. Winds from our summer thunder storms, tropical storms and hurricanes blow the nest off. Fortunately this happens after the young birds have grown and taken flight. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.
Nikon D500
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED, camera and lens supported by a monopod
1/2000 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV 0 ISO 560 Auto 1 WB, image captured at 270mm
Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2020 and Neat Image for noise reduction
Cropped for composition and presentation
Joe Przybyla
"Sometimes I do get to places just as God is ready to have somebody click the shutter"... Ansel Adams
Hi Joe, looking good, but why do you use NR on ISO 560?????
TFS
Steve
Hi Steve, thanks for viewing and commenting. Noise Reduction/Neat Image... I use it of every image. I lower the blacks, zero out the default sharpening of 40 in Lightroom and use the default setting in Neat Image of 60%. If the background is clean/pure the software can find a area without detail and read only the noise. Most times the amount that it finds is very low, around 2 or lower. Then on the 16 bit TIFF I tweak the exposure and sharpen. It seems to give a cleaner image without losing anything.
Joe Przybyla
"Sometimes I do get to places just as God is ready to have somebody click the shutter"... Ansel Adams
Great point of view. You must be shooting from nearly eye level to get this perspective. Nice detail and exposure, with great eye contact.
I agree with Steve about the noise reduction. D500 so be pretty clean at this ISO unless really underexposed.
Cheers
Randy
Hi Randy, thanks for viewing and commenting. See my comments to Steve regarding noise reduction. I was at eye level with the nest. The nest is on a platform on top of a utility pole. Across the street is a five level parking garage, top floor gives a great view of the nest. The limiting condition is the location of the nest relative to the light angle, overcast day with a wind from the south is best. The nest is directly north from the parking garage.
Joe Przybyla
"Sometimes I do get to places just as God is ready to have somebody click the shutter"... Ansel Adams
Nice Joe, you answered my question in Pane #6 :) What year?
with love, artie
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Nice Joe, you answered my question in Pane #6 :) What year?
with love, artie
Hey Artie, thanks for viewing and commenting. Early February this year. I was planning to go back for chicks and fledlings but then this stuff got in the way. About now there should be chicks.
Joe Przybyla
"Sometimes I do get to places just as God is ready to have somebody click the shutter"... Ansel Adams