First Post: Feeding Heron

[Steve Wheeler]

Hello All,

New member... First Post... Very happy to have found this place! (Thanks Bro...)

Canon 30D w/ 100-400 @ 400mm
ISO 500, f9 1/1600

I would greatly appreciate any comments, observations or suggestions!

Steve

[Maxis Gamez]

Hi Steve and welcome to BPN.

I think the image is too tight, especially in the front part of the Heron. I also see a lot of noise but you can take care that using any NR software. Keep them coming!

[Arthur Morris]

Dear spw11,

Welcome. Good catch by you and the heron. The fish is way over-exposed (and thus detail-less). Aside from using less light, the best way to have improved this image would be to have gotten much lower (if possible).

Please do to your UCP and change spw11 to your first and last names. Thanks!

and later and love, artie

[Steve Wheeler]

Thank you Maxis & Artie for your comments. The image is cropped... Not a lot but there's enough to pull back some. This was mid-day... bright sun... no flash... #9 in a sequence of 15 frames capturing the whole feeding cycle if you will. How would one exposed properly for the fish without loosing the bird?

Under the lighting conditions I was in, would a polarizing filter have helped w/ the fish?

I agree about getting lower for sure... I was shooting from my truck 20-30 ft. from the bird and if I'd gotten out or even attempted to get out he would have bolted for sure. I was so excited just to be getting these images I didn't want to jepordize that.

Also... I've looked this morning... I looked last night, but can't seem to find where/how to change my username from spw11 to Steve Wheeler. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thank you again for your feedback!

Steve Wheeler

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Welcome, Steve! If you use ACR or a different good program to process your RAW files you can use the highlight recovery tool to tone down the overexposed parts of the fish.