PEREGRINE-- again

[Ian McLachlan]

Couple of days ago I posted this girl, but this is five frames later and I have tried to take up some of the comments the previous image. This one looks to me to be sharper than the earlier one . I have not saturated any of it as the evening light has done that for me as it the evening sun is right behind me. The feet are exactly as in the previous photo ,not touched by me in processing, and she has made three or so passes already. This time I did not use DXO prime on the raw.We then left the site as she did not appreciate our presence. Arash is right I should have been at 4/5000th. My eyes are fading but this one looks OK from here . Any help much appreciated all the same.

A1
1/3200
f6.3
iso 1250
200/600mm
@ 600mm
hh at 6pm- early spring .

[Jonathan Ashton]

Nice shot much better looks sharper, tones in the wings are beautiful.

[kevin Hice]

Yes lots better could try to sharpen a little more TFS

[William Dickson]

Ian...This does look better, but the head is not sharp, I don't know if its slight motion blur or the critical focus point was elsewhere...I would apply some extra sharpening to the head area...

Will

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Ian for sure a killer pose and not easy to shoot , so kudos for the success .
Purely from the technical aspect it does still lack critical sharpness IMHO.
The sharpest point for me is the back underwing where the stripes are , i might be well wrong ... but this is how i do see it .
Is it a large crop ??? If yes heat haze might have caused an issue ....
Colors ... matter of taste .

TFS Andreas

[Ian McLachlan]

Thanks everyone, will keep trying with other frames, maybe I have not resharpened the jpeg enough.Tried to send a raw to Arash but it doesn't seem work.

[arash_hazeghi]

Hi Ian,
I looked at the raw file you sent, I did my best to improve it but I wasn't quite successful. There are 2 factors that make this one hard to salvage, one is the motion blur. with peregrines I try to be at 1/4000 sec or faster, do not hesitate to raise the ISO and push the ss. Motion blur is almost impossible to completely remove even with most advanced AI software that's out there. If you are using your lens hand held make sure you set OSS to mode 3 to prevent the OS fighting with panning. secondly this is huge crop, the birds is about 5-10% of the frame so there aren't many pixels to work with

Keep at it I am sure you will nail more of these

PS. this is my attempt

[Dorian Anderson]

The details in this version look much better, but you're up against it with the heavy crop and lack of pixels. Given those limitations, I think you got as much as you could from this file. Good work.

[Ian McLachlan]

Thanks Arash for your help .will do.

[Daniel Cadieux]

That is a sweet pose indeed, and no wonder you wanted to process it despite the issues pointed out by Arash. Today's modern camera's take high ISO very well - don't be scared to push those up!