Another of the images created while on the Hooptie Deaux with James Shadle on my tour. This one looks like a referee calling touchdown!...plus he was landing. Like I said in my previous post.....if you want Spoonies......go with James!!!....nothing I have done in Florida B4 even comes close! The sheer #'s and variety was unbelievable....even fo me....who has been going to Fla. for the past 15 years.
Canon 1D Mark lll with the Sigma 300-800mm lens at 800 mm for 1/2000th of a sec. at f7.1 and ISO 800 all mounted on tripod w/ wimberly head while standing in the water. Cropped to remove oof spoonie right and left.
Hey Randy,
No worries....James takes care of it all. He knows the tides and locations!!! If he can make a 72 year young woman happy (one of my clients)......you will be thrilled!!!
PS As far as crops go....this one is pretty loose for me:D.
Super exposure comp and pose. Great action to. If I have to nit pick I would say that you could maybe clone out the 3 brown patches between the 2 wing tips in the bg but they are not to bad
Then I want to ask if you did something to the eye cause it looks unnatural or was it just the way the light was on it
In the end for me its super well done
Terrific pose, just perfect. There is magenta cast to the image, cleared by the blur average method.
Is this what you saw, because sometimes the numbers lie :)
Hey Fabs,
Not sure???.water was pretty dark blue.......didn't touch HS or color.....may have actually decreased it and added a hair blue in color adjust. All the color in the water may be the 20 other spoonies all around......i do like the feathers a bit better in the re-post......I may let James decide! ....if he chimes in.
Roman,
It was great meeting you and your crew!
Beautiful subject, tack sharp, great feather detail and the wing position is top shelf.
As for the crop, it could be a little looser. Considering who captured this image, "Dr Too Tight" this is really a outstanding composition.
I've got to "chime" in on the cooler. . The water is noticeably magenta on my monitor.
Fabs repost looks like a truer representation of the colors. A bump it saturation on Fabs repost would be about perfect, IMO.
It is probably a AWB issue. If I remember correctly (sure) it was getting late in the day, your exposure data looks about 1.3 stops lower than when we first started.
On some cameras, when the EV gets lower the camera over warms in AWB. It just sees a low EV. The camera assumes the low EV must be due to cloudy or shady conditions and adds warmth to the already warm evening light. Or am I full of it?
Thanks for coming out and wear the Darth hat with pride.
Touchdown Spoonie
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