Hi,
I got this image early evening and found it interesting and a little bit different from the "normal" images. Actually my settings were a bit on the slow side with a reduced flash and the image gave me a shadow effect and the flash was enough to light the bird against the dark sky. I ran it through my noise reduction software twice and did some cropping. All comments welcome.
Best
Michael
Camera Model: Canon EOS 40D
Shutter speed: 1/100 sec
Aperture: 4
Exposure mode: Av
Exposure compensation: -1/3
Flash: External E-TTL
Flash exposure compensation: -3
Metering mode: Evaluative
ISO: 400
Lens: EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM +1.4x
Focal length: 280mm
I like flashed bird against dark colors, they look cool.
May I suggest to use second curtain flash the next time, to get the ghost after the subject instead of in front of it.
There is still a lot of noise the the BG, you could select the BG with the Magic wand, and run noise reduction or Gaussian blur on it until it's clean.
The plumage looks a bit oversharpened, maybe your noise reduction program is set to do sharpening.
Different for sure, but I can't say that I love this image. It still looks noisy (could be jpeg compression artefacts...), the flashed eye needs work, and the black "shadow halo" surrounding your subject makes it look pasted onto the BG...
On the plus side you have a pretty neat sky colour, nice open wing position, and the perch peeking into the image is a good thing :-)
I am with Fabs about the nose and the second curtain suggestion and with Daniel about agreeing that it is different but I am too not sure I love this one! Still it is always nice to try new things and the only one who has to like it you! Congratulaitons!
White Ibis Evening Landing
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