Woodpigeon
Canon 50D Canon 500mm L IS ISO 400 1/4000 sec f7.1
This has all the hall marks of a set up but it was in fact caught very fortuitously. I had been photographing grebes and I spotted this pigeon having a drink, I approached very slowly and he all owed me time to set up the tripod at low level I got the shot and he flew off. It's nice to have a little good luck on your side once in a while.
I have applied noise reduction to the water and sharpening to the bird.
All comments welcome.
Jonathon, I really like the color scheme here, and DOF and sharpness look right on. The ripple in the lower right corner does kind of draw the viewer's eye away from the bird in this image. If you are into cloning, you might consider working with that part of the image.
Cheers,
Greg Basco
Good low perspective, and he certainly posed for you here. Good detail and colours captured too. This guy is very similar to our speckled pigeon ( formally known as a rock pigeon)
I see what you mean Greg I agree in part but I left it in to help show that it was a natural setting.:)
Last edited by Jonathan Ashton; 05-10-2010 at 11:41 AM.
Jonathon, that's certainly a valid point, and the image is very nice as is...
Cheers,
Greg
Jonathan, do you use DPP to process your RAWs? If so, check the box in the Tool window that says NR. Make sure it is set to 0 and not the camera default 20.
Steve
Post Production: It’s ALL about what you do with the tools and not, which brand of tool you use.
Good looking bird, and nice water BG. Not to mention the perch too! Good to be lucky sometimes, but you need to know what to do with that luck! :-) There seems to be something going on below the tail and in the rock's reflection...I can't put my finger on it, but it looks odd to my eye...almost like a straight line drawn across and everything underneath that line smudged down vertically?? There is also some PP work in the area behind the bird's back...
Absolutely right Daniel, there were several blades of reeds to the left of the bird, normally I would leave them because they were blurred and out of focus, I get the impression with American websites as opposed to European that the background is much more important so I painted them out with the eye dropper followed by the brush - a trick I only learned today from Judy in the Macro gallery. I then patched in a few vague ripples from the right to break up the silky appearance. The slightly smudgy appearance at the bottom is where my limited Photoshop skills show! I was in two minds then I thought just maybe I would get away with it - now I know differently.:)Originally Posted by Daniel Cadieux
Hey Jonathan, thanks for the additional comments. I had a hunch something was done to those areas :-)
Sometimes it is worth keeping elements in the frame if they are not distracting or ugly (or both!)....
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