ring-bill on fire
From yesterday evening at the Sackville Waterfowl Park, just as the sun set. BG is low sun on white birches.
I see a little noise in the grey mantle of the gull (or is it moiré?) but did not remove. Ran NR on BG, cropped and sharpened. Hope you like it.
Canon EOS 50D, 500/4, 1.4 tcII = 700mm
capture date: 19 April, 2009 7:39 PM
exposure program: Aperture Priority
ISO speed: 400
shutter speed: 1/500
aperture: f6.3
exposure bias: +0.0
metering: Pattern
flash: OFF
John:
Beautifully exposed, nice head angle,sharp, nice composition, killer background.
I can see the noise, not bothersome to me ( film guy!)
The major compositional issue is the perch he is on. It is the one weakness in the image for me. I am glad it is dark, but it is pretty strong.
Thanks so much for sharing this beauty.
Randy
John, I tried cropping up from the bottom to reduce the impact of the perch, but I think that was worse. Will be curious to see what others feel.
John,
Nice capture,Super sharp. Wish he was maybe a little more to the left?
Never can help myself but to give these guys a few french fries when at the local drive-thru !
Terrific colors to the water that make the RBG pop out. Great compo, I like the placement in the frame, nicely exposed, with very little cast considering the light. Good job!
tack sharp and I love the copper background. I'm just getting used to understand noise and how to cope and now I get Moire? What is Moire and how do you recognize the difference?
Thanks, John
Beautiful photo John. Well done.
I prefer the crop, just enough to get rid of the high lights below the board. For me it seems to seat the bird in the photo. My preference.
Lovely.
Dave
Many thanks for all the good comments. Yes the "perch" is pretty crappy! I'm working to get the management board for the waterfowl park to swap the these perches for tethered logs.Originally Posted by John Hawkins
John- Moiré patterns are made when two fine grained patterns interact. If you took two pieces of mosquito netting and laid them over top of each other, then rotated one relative to the other you would get moiré patterns. You see it on TVs sometimes when someone is wearing a striped or patterned shirt. Moiré is a regular pattern of curvy stripes, sometimes coloured, which usually looks different from random noise.
In digital photography, you have the potential for moiré patterns to develop when a fine-grained or textured object such as a bird's feather interacts with the array of minute light-sensitive sites on your DSLR sensor. To counteract this, most if not all sensors have a filter in front which slightly blurs the image and reduces the chances of moiré in your images (which is not easy to get rid of in post processing). This is why it is very rare to see this effect in modern digital images.
Last edited by John Chardine; 04-20-2009 at 09:41 PM.
I like this one John. The "perch" doesn't bother me too much as it makes me think "walking the plank" which ties in with a gull (at least to me). Colors look great and contrast well with the nicely detailed bird. Only thing I'd do is remove/lessen the blue from/on the perch.
The fading light has brought out the exposure on the gull perfectly. Amazing colours in the BG John, and the gull is nice and sharp too. His perch - well I would have wished for better. Still an outstanding image.
Fantastic image John.
The bird is so clear!!! Very nice whites and sharpness. Saved the link to BPN favourites ;)
Szimi
Gorgeous light, pose, light and golden-brown water - top makes all round, except for that perch.
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