I posted this bird and it's OOF chick yesterday and thought I'd present a portrait of just the parent. My buddy and I were photographing the family and they were not coming particularly close to the boardwalk we were on in Sackville, NB. Then by a stroke of luck they moved to the right and eventually just sat in front of us for about 10 min. It was one of those magic moments!
Processing involved cleaning up the water, controlling noise in the BG, "desating" the blue channel and the standard crop and sharpen.
Canon EOS 50D, 500/5 x 1.4 tcII = 700mm
capture date: Saturday, 3 October 2009, 4:35 PM
exposure program: Aperture Priority
ISO speed: 1000
shutter speed: 1/200
aperture: f6.3
exposure bias: +0.3
metering: Pattern
flash: OFF
Nice one, John. Nice pose, reflection, exposure and detail. i am seeing some color noise in the reflection and it maybe needs some CCW rotation? Congratulations.
This is sweet, love that eye. I see some magenta in the reflection of the bird's chest and keep wondering if that's just me or something else going on.
I do see what Connie pointed out as far as the magenta tinge, in the chest, esp. visible in the reflection.
Just for giggles I checked the rotation, and for me, it showed it needs a .11 degree CCW rotation. Lorant has a very sensitive eye.
From a comp. standpoint, I wish the head of the reflection had just a smidge more clear space beneath it. It seems crowded. It wouldn't bother me to crop the reflection up into the neck, but if you keep it intact, perhaps just a bit more space below?
alone at last
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