I'm a little hesitant to post this right now because I'm working on my laptop and it doesn't have the best screen. This is an attempt at a save. The birds right wingtip was just barely clipped off. Panning with a 600 f4 hand held from inside the cab of a pickup can be difficult to do. So... I decided to try a 10 x 20 crop and balance the image. As always critiques and thoughts are appreciated.
Taken near Port Aransas, TX
EOS 1DMKIII
600 f4 IS
Shutter Speed = 1/320 second
F-Stop = 4/1 =f4
ISO = 100
Last edited by Michael Lloyd; 09-29-2008 at 11:10 PM.
I like the wing spread Michael. The image has good sharpness, although if I were hand holding my 600, I'd be using ISO 400-800 to maximize shutter speed; you'll get far more keepers that way. I wish the bill didn't get lost in the body, and I'd like to see the underwing areas lightened a little.
Good advice from Doug. I never use ISO 100, unless I need it to blur something with slow shutter speed. To me, it's a waste of real state, especially with the 1d3.
I'd add canvas to both side, ot crop further in. Cut, don't clip ;)
I agree that I shouldn't have been at 100 ISO for this shot. The BP shot was unexpected. I was traveling to my motel room and had no real intention to shoot anymore. Prior to shooting this I was shooting Snowy Egrets against a dark background with low sunlight coming from behind and to my left. I wanted to shoot the scene at f4 and since I had a tripod I opted for a lower ISO. Speaking of low ISO, on a side note, I saw some night, ISO 6400, high school football images from the 50D and the DMKIII is no longer the high ISO darling...
Here's one with a better head turn. There were only 3 images and the last one was not sharp at all... This one is a touch larger too...
Last edited by Michael Lloyd; 10-01-2008 at 08:34 AM.
Brown Pelican (again)
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