hated to use ISO 800, had didn't know how else to get the pic in the low light. (As Al keeps saying, "no flash" :D)
oh, baby is 4 weeks old and really is the cutest baby bird I have ever seen, contrary to this large crop.
Excellent Cheryl,
I like the tight portrait. The details and color rendition are superb...the eye makes it for me...looking forward to your next one...:cool:
I like it, maybe remove some on the catchlights and clean-up that area of the eye - well done. Composition is unique, nice lens and I am impressed with the high ISO on your 40D.
Jeff, I thought about removing some of the catchlights, I remember that you critiqued that on one of my other images. But since there were there, I hesitated to remove them. The eye looked too flat with all the details removed except one catchlight. I must be missing something on how to do that well.
(I did remove the reflection of my hand trying to get the baby to down toward the camera, though. :) )
I am looking at images on my 24 inch Eizo ColorEdge monitor. The eye is the staple of the image and I am seeing things on a big display. The picture is fine as is, I only offer suggestions based on my perspective. However, to clean it up, the clone tool should work?
Last edited by Jeff Cashdollar; 11-05-2009 at 10:19 PM.
Not sure why you would like to remove the eye catchlights. Many would rather have them than without :) Anyhow, I enhanced the contrast, especially the eye. Hopefully it has improved the look of the eye. I also cropped the image a bit.
love the composition Cheryl - gorgeous, I think the general consensus is that there should only be 1 catchlight in the eye.
Desmonds repost works for me.
Great job!!!
a macro lens would have been nice. its one of the future purchases I would love to make. a tripod would have helped part of the time, part of the time he was trying out his wings. I got to see him learn to fly! too much fun.
here he is, full view.
Baby eyes
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