I agree with the above comment. I just don't do much ISO 200 stuff in the field, precisely because I'll take all the shutter speed I can get (you never know when you're going to need it). I don't feel like the entire reflections need to be included in the crop, so I would crop a bit off the bottom of the frame.
Well done on the whites and the complimentary poses are nice. Agree re ISO - you are probably quite safe to use 800 as a base ISO with the D3 and that will give you 2 stops more speed of DOF. Sharpness is probably a higher priority than lack of noise.
The reason for ISO 200 was we were on a photo seminar with potential buyers in the classroom . Most of the buyers want full frame ( no crop ) and lowest iso of camera body. They know what the cameras produce and they constantly toss out submissions that are bumped in the ISO.
That said you may be seeing the limitation of compressing down to size for the site as this image was printed at 40 by 60 inches during the seminar and you can count the veins in the neck feathers and see the shore reflection in the eyes
Here ias a sharpened version as the previous was the Jpeg straight out of the camera not the worked on raw file which i would use for print purposes
Last edited by john crookes; 01-04-2009 at 12:01 PM.
Repost is a good improvement, John. Web presentation can be challenging and doesn't show the detail visible in a high res file/print. Comments above relate to general field work with BIF. Obviously that was not the scenario you were working in at the time - your explanation clarifies that.
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