Another that was close, a skimmer fight !! Had the 100-400 IS and could have zoomed out more for a safer shot but was a little tight. Both birds were fairly large in frame covering around 60% but did not follow the action and had enough room at the bottom but cut them at the top !! Actually had a little more and the entire tail for the upper bird.
Having the birds much smaller in frame say under 40% would have given a better chance to come up with the image. Just choice no right or wrong here, its up to the individual photographer. Having tiny birds in frame fighting would not have giving me a satisfying image, would have been good but not satisfying. This is close but will go to the trash bin.
btw it is fully salvageable by adding canvas up top and rebuilding he wing since I would only need the last third of both .. and just tedious but not all that hard !! For a rare image I would give it a try but this will be in the garbage !!
Comments welcome and much appreciated
Canon 7D
100-400 IS
f 9.0 1/1600 sec
manual exp
ISO 400
.. forgot One thing I like doing for images with strong shadow line is softening, just take the clone stamp tool at 50% opacity and work pixels from the shadow to the light area back and forth .. does kill the abrupt transition !!!
i think i got both yesterday. too small and too big!! the wind totally shifted while i was there too. went from a perfect NW to a brutal E. oh well, always next time!!:D
I am with you Alfred on hitting the delete button.
The most fun for me is being out doors trying to get a good photo and experiencing the weather and action.
I already have lots of unprocessed photos because I am always looking forward to getting out there again and trying to get it right in camera.
Like Harold has said, there is always the next time, which btw might be next season!
I also like this one Al, it's a pitty about the clipped wings. I would not spend time trying to fix the wings, instead would go out for another try. In Florida birds seems to be more 'friendly' than here, where birds are very skittish, then I would fix it!:D
I would keep it - especially this one when color and exposure looks real good - if that's the only one of that kind of action from that kind of bird, or it's some special occasion that you shot it under. Otherwise, personally, I consider any clipped wing photo a failure :) and will go to the trash eventually.
I would keep it! Even with the wings clipped, it's a nice moment of dramatic action. I opened the shadow
details, sharpened a little, and added a gradient to the sky.
Hi Al. I agree it's not worth rebuilding the wings, but a nice action shot nonetheless. I'm curious: from the format, it appears you must have taken some off the top or the bottom, I assume the bottom. I wonder if cropping out much of the upper bird could make an interesting comp? I tried from the jpeg but it doesn't look like much, but maybe something along these lines if you could get the IQ from the master file?????
You only get to see the good ones
