Turning Home #2

[David Roach]

Another sunset return to the evening roost. Just a little later, with darker sky. Again, this is about 40% of original (really needed more lens).
1DMKIIN 400DO ISO 800 F5@1/1000

[Randy Stout]

David:

Lovely soft light, nice background, wingspread,good exposure.

I know the title is turning for home, but I wish for a bit more head turn towards us, and not home :)

Since you have the canvas, I might add just a bit top,bottom and front.

The crop and ISO are showing up in some softness of the details.

Overall though, I like the 'feel' of the image.

Thanks for sharing!

Randy

[Alfred Forns]

Hi David !! Good comments by Randy

I didn't see the exposure compensation? ... guessing the histogram was a little underexposed For these some fill flash also works well.

[Richard Lovison]

I just love the color of the sky and bird in this image as well as the shape of the bird in flight. Well done.

Just wondering... did you use a high dose of noise reduction? The softness in the detail underneath the wing looks like the effect from aggressive noise reduction. With the camera you are using, I would think even a 40% crop would still make for lots of detail. Maybe it's just the softness of that wonderful light causing this effect.

[David Roach]

Thanks everyone for the helpful input. Actually, it was exposed all the way to the right and I pulled it back considerably during raw conversion because of earlier comment on lightness of colors. The lack of detail is due to the crop (maybe even more than stated - have to check), but it was also soft light. Noise is usually not a big problem if I expose to the right as we are all taught.

[Charlie VanTassel]

Hi David, Nice lighting. I agree a it looks a touch soft, and I can see a slight halo around the wings.