GBH portrait

[Sid Garige]

Wako yesterday
Canon 7D, 500mm F4 + 1.4x
F5.6 1/640

[Aidan Briggs]

I like the soft light, plumes, and eye contact. Maybe a bit more sharpening

[Jeff Parker]

Agree on a touch more sharpening.

[Sid Garige]

Aidan and Jeff,

Image was made on a windy day. You can see the neck feathers and black plumes on the head flying all around due to wind. Image was shot at 1/640 of second and not quite enough to freeze very fine feather movement on neck. If i sharpen much more, it will not look natural in my opinion. I am trying to keep whole story intact.

[Manjesh Lingamurthy]

Hi Sid

Exposure is spot on. Placement of the eye, head feathers and neck feathers in the frame, makes for a very pleasing composition.

Manjesh

[Martin Wallis]

Nice composition, perhaps more DOF would have worked here as it seems sharper on the breast feathers than the face.
Cheers

[Sid Garige]

Nice composition, perhaps more DOF would have worked here as it seems sharper on the breast feathers than the face.
Cheers

Martin,
720mm (500mm+1.4x) @ f5.6 with subject distance of 90feet(approximately) will yield a DOF of 1feet. This is more than enough DOF for a great blue.

You are comparing fine feathers on head with bigger plumes on neck. Of course they will look sharper.

Intent of the image is to show a great blue heron with breeding plumage in wind.

[Don Lacy]

Hi Sid, Do some selective sharpening on the eye and people will not no longer comment on sharpness:) Really lioke the comp and the breeding feathers floating in the wind

[Sid Garige]

Don,

Quoting Chas from one of his posts.

"My point being...image sharpness is dificult to critique on the web unless we are all viewing the images at the same res and monitor size."
http://www.birdphotographers.net/for...ad.php?t=38863

I am sure you get rest of the story.

[Don Lacy]

Don,

Quoting Chas from one of his posts.

"My point being...image sharpness is dificult to critique on the web unless we are all viewing the images at the same res and monitor size."
http://www.birdphotographers.net/for...ad.php?t=38863

I am sure you get rest of the story.

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