Verona, NJ
Subject may be centered, but I like the berries on the pavement too much to crop them out! I wanted to keep the brightness down on this series as it was a typical dark dreary overcast winter day in New Jersey... tried to set a mood.
I was laying on the ground here, getting down and dirty. I think I may have needed a hair more DOF to get fine detail on the bird, but for my likings this is more of a conceptual than documentary capture. Post Processing: NR on BG, High Pass sharpening on bird, small repair job on his eye, slight crop from the left.
Canon 500mm f/4 + 1.4tc, AV mode, fill flash +1 via Better Beamer
Camera: Canon EOS 7D
Exposure: 0.003 sec (1/400)
Aperture: f/8.0
Focal Length: 700 mm
Exposure Bias: +2/3 EV
ISO Speed: 1250
How did I do?
- Dave