Chickadee in Flight

[Desmond Chan]

Another attempt...of mine that is :o

D300 300mm on tripod; manual exposure mode, ISO 1600, f3.5 1/6400 sec. Cropped and blurred the background (for obvious reasons :o)

Your comments are welcome!

Thank you for your patience!!

[denise ippolito]

Nice job Desmond. They are very quick.You must of been very patient!

[Nonda Surratt]

Nice catch Desmond, the birdies head is dead on sharp! Agree with Denise.

Only thing is a bit of residue from the blurring maybe (around bird).

[Desmond Chan]

Only thing is a bit of residue from the blurring maybe (around bird).

You're probably right, Nonda. I've found it a problem of using blur. Any idea how to avoid it?


Thanks, Denise and Nonda !

[Alfred Forns]

Agree with comments !! Excellent at 1600 with those dark bg !!! Great Desmond !!! Would also back down the sharpening a bit !!!

[SeanKP]

Nice exposure and good detail on the bird.Possibly a tad oversharpened? The blurring has given the background a slightly dreamlike quality. Not sure if that is what you are after but, for my tastes I'd tone the effect down a touch. Did you try and clone out the feeder altogether? That might be interesting.

Cheers.

Sean

[Gus Cobos]

Hi Desmond,
A nice catch indeed. I also agree on the over sharpening...:cool:

[Lance Peters]

HI Desmond - well done can only imagine how hard it must be to catch these little guys.

I might think about cropping out the top of the feeder - or using a QM to get rid of the top only.

:)

[Oscar Zangroniz]

Excellent capture Desmond. Bird is very sharp and well exposed.
Regards,

[Gus Hallgren]

Hi Desmond:

A quick job. Took out yellow marks from in front of bird with Hue/Saturation>chose "Yellow" > Moved Saturation all the way to left. Flattened image > pressed "B" (Brush Tool) >Used Bracket keys for sizing, Left, smaller, Right Larger. Start Opacity at 40, about 3/4" to start, adjust size & opacity as you clean up BG. I click on foreground color square on left toolbar, and click beside area I want to paint. Doing this repeatedly I painted out perch, feeder etc. Takes a light hand and numerous clicks for each color you want to blend.

I sorta rushed this one as I was ready for some Zzzz's. Final touch was curves, Linear Contrast default

FWIW

Uncle Gus :D:D

[Desmond Chan]

Hey, Thanks Uncle Gus! I like the way you painted out the perch. I've seen people do that before. ****, how come I didn't think of that :o Thanks for reminding me of those techniques !!


Thanks everyone !

Hi Desmond:

A quick job. Took out yellow marks from in front of bird with Hue/Saturation>chose "Yellow" > Moved Saturation all the way to left. Flattened image > pressed "B" (Brush Tool) >Used Bracket keys for sizing, Left, smaller, Right Larger. Start Opacity at 40, about 3/4" to start, adjust size & opacity as you clean up BG. I click on foreground color square on left toolbar, and click beside area I want to paint. Doing this repeatedly I painted out perch, feeder etc. Takes a light hand and numerous clicks for each color you want to blend.

I sorta rushed this one as I was ready for some Zzzz's. Final touch was curves, Linear Contrast default

FWIW

Uncle Gus :D:D