The Early Bird Catching his Worm

[Richard Stern]

An early migrant Robin on one of the few snow-free patches on the front lawn last week. I couldn't easily get any more detail in the snow, but I'm not sure it's necessary.

D300, Tamron 200-500, braced against open car window, ISO800, 1/200, f9.0, spot-metered on the head. Noise Ninja used, but I think the image may be still a bit noisy, or possibily slight loss of sharpness due to movement. But the worm was down in a flash, and I'm glad I caught the action.

Richard

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Richard For metering why don't you meter of the snow and open one and one half?

Not bad for the slow shutter speed With you camera could even go to 1250 if you nail the exposure ... any under exposure would be deadly !!

[Lance Peters]

hi richard - agree with Al - seeing a lot of artifacts as well - did you use shadow/highlights to open up the shadows maybe.??

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

THe image quality is a little poor sadly, but I find the action fantastic. Nice to see a worm being eaten. :) Well done and keep it up! :)

[Gus Cobos]

Hi Richard,
I like the action captured...agree with Mr. Forns on the techs. Looking forward to the next one...:cool: