What's the consensus on this image? I got a variety of exposures in this 5 shot sequence, metering on him and the water. I don't want a complete silhouette, and this seems like a good in-between. If this is too dark for you guys' liking, I have other, more technically correct images. So, fire away. :)
In PP, I lightened the head a bit and cropped for comp. I left everything else alone.
Hi Colin - maybe because it's "in-between", it doesn't work for me - it's either too dark or too light, but then I am way conservative. The composition is terrific, the bird's wing position is lovely, sharp, and nice bg.
Cheers
Gail
Thanks guys. I'm thinking of just going to a complete silhouette with this one. I wasn't really sure what to do with it. I think the comments so far have helped me decide.
Hi Colin,
Nice capture of this beautiful duck. The subject is just entering the past point of flying away from you; would suggest adding canvas to the right side of the frame and taking 1/4 from the left side...agree on lightening the area around the eye and the overall image...looking forward to your next one...:cool:
The one in the avian forum looks much better, do like the bird position of this one !! Can lighten the face just a bit on the avian one, for those guys you need to luck out and have the sun cover the entire bird at the correct angle !!
This is a good (great) illustration why is good to use the manual metering mode rather than Av, Tv or P !! As the bg changes you will have different exposures while the bird is in the same light. Going form sky to trees is even worse !!! Remember any under exposure is going to lead to noise and your image will not be looking its best !!!
Thanks for the tip on metering modes Alfred. That's too advanced for me in that setting though, one side of the pond was shady, the other side sunny. It was shooting on both sides and probably couldn't handle that in M mode.
Mallard at Sunset
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