A 75% 1200mm Crop!

[Arthur Morris]

Great Blue Heron large chick in the nest begging

This image was created on 28 April 2021 at the Brandon Rookery. While standing at full height on the shore, I used the Induro GIT304L Grand Series 3 Stealth Carbon Fiber Tripod/ Levered-Clamp FlexShooter Pro-mounted-Sony FE 600mm f/4 GM OSS lens, the Sony FE 2.0x Teleconverter, and The One, the Sony Alpha 1 Mirrorless Digital Camera (Body Only). ISO 2500. The exposure was determined by Zebras with ISO on the rear wheel: 1/1000 sec. at f/8 (wide open) in Manual mode. AWB at 7:34pm on a sunny afternoon. Tracking: Flexible Spot AF-C with Bird-Eye/Face Detection performed perfectly.

After cropping away 76.75% of the original pixels, I ran this through Topaz Gigapixel at 2X. Considering 1200mm and the huge crop, the results are amazing to me. Learn more and see the full frame original in the blog post here.

As for the image, don't be shy; all comments are welcome and appreciated.

with love, artie

[Colin Driscoll]

Lovely light, great geometry and good detail.

[David Pugsley]

Love the light and interaction. I still can't get over the 600 and 2x combo on the a1.

[Kurt Bowman]

Great interaction and terrific detail for that big of a crop using a 2X TC! Nice work Artie

[Brian Sump]

Artie, cool interaction here! I like that both subjects are in plane.

Considering all the massaging it's a pretty decent frame. I do think that the IQ has suffered compared to some of your other files and what the A1 is capable of. A bit too much grain and IQ suffers in the eyes, among other places.

I didn't check the whites, but they feel a bit hot or close to blown. You probably checked them but just an observation without reviewing the techs.

TFS amigo :-)

[John Mack]

Looks sharp to me. The interaction is nice. Both are rockin nice hair do's.

[William Dickson]

Hi Artie.....to be honest I think you went too far regarding the crop.....The interaction against a nice BG looks good, but .....The IQ is not there..

Will

[arash_hazeghi]

the IQ looks good from here minus the too bright highlights, you might be able to recover the lost details there. If you had not mentioned no one would have guess it was a 75% crop. 25% of A1 file still contains more details than half the image of those old useless 20 mega pixel bricks

[Jonathan Ashton]

Good interaction, the highlights look a little bright to me.

[Arthur Morris]

Love the light and interaction. I still can't get over the 600 and 2x combo on the a1.

old you so :)

with love, a