Hi All
This was a serendipitous capture. In the original image, the bird was not tack sharp and there were a couple of spurious brush bits. I like the image and tried some pp work to try to save as much as I could - including significant NR that the 50D seems to require. What do you think?
Comments and suggestions much appreciated.
Gail
Canon 50D with 500mm plus 1.4xTC at f/5.7, 1/2000 sec, ISO 800
Hi Gail,
I like the capture, and the flight angle with the wings in the down position. The background is too busy for me. you have branches coming out of the bird's tail....see if this pano crop works better for you...also ran noise reduction o the background, blurred and liquefied the green tones mixing it with the gray...:cool:
Thanks everyone. Gus I like the re-post and will do a bit more removing as per your image and look into "liquifying" (haven't done that before, tried blurring but that is very ineffective).
It really doesn't qualify as a BIF image as I was just clicking away; didn't see the image until I looked at the LCD monitor. Usually I have lots of the back halves of birds as they fly away, but I appreciate the kind words from Desmond, the BIF king at ETL.
Cheers
Gail
Gus's repost is a improvement - i am suprised by your comment re NR on the 50D, Artie seems to be using one and raving about it. Have seen other reviews that state it is indeed worse than the 40D for noise - indicating that the increase in pixel count has a lot to do with it.
Song Sparrow - PSwork
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