I had just arrived at the park in Rockwood Ontario when the Great Blue Heron flew in. I didn't even look at the settings on my camera. I was just very lucky to get anything. :-)
Nikon D200, 70 - 300 VR, at 220mm, F5.6, 1/125s, ISO 100, -.7EV
Thanks for looking,
Clive
hi clive, couple thing i see: could you have moved to your right? would have maybe solved two things. a better head angle and elimination of the goose. as is, i would add a little canvas down below his foot and i think there is a magenta? color cast to it. the color cast is easily fixed by setting the black and white points. you got some nice detail in the bird. i'd just like to have some better eye contact.
Hi Clive - harold has hit a couple of the nails on the head - HAP might want to talk to you about this one :)
Also looking a little soft on my screen - some sharpening to the bird might help. The goose at the bottom of the image has to go - a little distracting.
Hi Clive,
I can appreciate the capture, but The Doctor and Mr. Peters covered all of the techs. with some very good advise...I'm looking forward to your next one...keep them coming...:cool:
Hi Clive Agree with suggestions ... also remember to add the crop factor to the focal length which will make it over 300 .. shutter speed was 1/125, easy to get some motion blur !!
Thank you for the critiques. I swear I will be setting my ISO higher in the future. :-) So that I can use a higher shutter speed with a fair DOF. I haven't had a chance to apply it yet.
I had try to set the black and white but I hadn't found any white so I used the one of the specular highlights off of the water. Here is a second attampt with more sharpening and no white point set.
Great Blue Heron Surprise
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