Thanks in advance for your comments and suggestions.
Nikon D90; Shutter Speed 1/2500 sec; Aperture Priority; f/5.6; ISO 1000; focal lenght 420; no flash; handheld camera, CS4 and Viveza adjustments.
A beautiful capture Lady Mirenchu...I like the selective cropping. The details on the wings are good...I would suggest on opening up the mid-tones just a little and the area around the eye, with a touch of selective sharpening...good show...looking forward to more...:cool:
Good composition. I suspect the image was underexposed, and at ISO 1000 the worst thing you can do is underexpose. Actually underexposure is rarely a good idea, but the higher the ISO the greater the noise penalty. My 2 cents: Expose to the right. Take a quick test shot. Examine your histogram and make sure it is shifted as far to the right as possible, without clipping the highlights (as shown by the blinkies). To increase exposure you can increase exposure compensation, but I find manual exposure works best. In that case you have three options: decrease your shutter speed, increase the aperture, or increase the ISO. With your image here, I would have decreased the shutter speed, you have some to spare. Adjusting the aperture is not such a good idea, you need the DOF, and once it is wide open there isn't much more you can do. Actually increasing the ISO sometimes is the best solution, which sounds counter productive, since you would get more noise, wouldn't you? Actually overexposure works so well for noise control that this option works pretty well.
In any case can correct your washed out looking images in post processing and you will notice that not only has detail been preserved, but there is far less noise.
regards~Bill
I know it was difficult going after that nest back lit and the one on the other side front lit, hard changing settings and keeping up with the action. Ideally here you needed flash for best results and working on only one nest which I did not .. it was fun going from one to the other !!!
The Wizard
