Usually my limit with the D300 is about 640ISO but sometimes, if the light is good enought or I desesperately need to capture the action I use ISO800. To capture this guy in the late light of the day ISO800 was not enought so I tried ISO1000 and I am happy with the result. Not a lot of noise because the image is overxpose to get the sky white and as much details in the plumage as posible. :)
Nikon D300, AFS Nikkor 500VR, handheld, manual exposure, f5,6 ISO1000 1/1000s croped to vertical
Cool pose, good eye contact and light. It looks a bit too contrasty on my monitor. I'm surprised the bands are above the knee joint, doesn't look comfortable.
I like the warm tones, Juan - exposure looks great. I also try and limit ISO on the D300 - 400 if possible but have worked comfortably at 800 quite often. No intrusive noise in this image to my eye
Hi all and thanks for the comments. :-)
This guy is part of the biggest and, perhaps, the only one breeding colony of this species in Spain that is formed by about 2500-3000 pairs in Doñana National Park. This colony has been monitored from several years ago in a long term project by the scientifics in Doñana Biological Station and each year a very important number of chicks are banded. It is hard to find a bird without a leg band (exactly the same can be said about flamingos). As far as I can remember long legged birds like ibises, spoonbills, storks and flamingos are banded above the knee joint . The banding is performed by a professional team so I guess there is no damege for the birds. Hope this helps :)
Juan, I shoot ISO 800 all the time with my D300 with no issues at all and up to 1600 comfortably. Granted I use Imagenomic for the noise, but thats what the software is for right.
Now for your image... I like the wingspread and you appear to have some nice feather detail.
Glossy ibis at high ISo and High key
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