It's a bird shot in southest part of Romania, near Danube and Bulgaria. I hope you'll enjoy it and I really hope you'll find some time to tell me what I did wrong. Thank You :)
Last edited by Bogdan Panait; 07-06-2009 at 12:33 AM.
Reason: Modif. Thr. title
Interesting bird, I have no idea either what species this is. I like the angle, sharpness and BG but the image looks oversaturated and I would tone down the whites on the tail and would crop some off the right. Keep them coming!
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This bird is a Black-headed Yellow Wagtail aka (Motacilla flava feldegg).
Ditto Axel 100%. The BG almost looks fake to me. Nice exposure, details, and soft light. If you crop from the right, I might add space to the top, and left sides.
Are you using RAW capture? If so, I would start over and reconvert with much less SAT. I reduced the SAT a ton and this still looks a bit unreal. Let us know if you learn the species name. And welcome.
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Thank you very much, I really appreciate the words!
I must say that the bg is real, it is indeed saturated, because of a mistake i've made at the shooting time ( landscape settings in camera) but I left it that way just because I kind of liked it :) ... you are absolutely right so, thank you again :)
Here is another photo with the same settings, I attached the exif data, it is also saturated in the same way but with a very real background; the same bird, the very same day:
Last edited by Bogdan Panait; 07-06-2009 at 12:17 AM.
Reason: Forgot exif:
Exposure time: 1/640
F Number : 5.6
program: Aperture priority
ISO speed: 200
Focal lenght in 35mm film: 600
Shot with Nikkor AF70-200 plus TC Tammy 2x Pro and on Nikon D300, manual WB
Black-headed Yellow Wagtail
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