Late in the day on Brier Island. NS recently. I would be interested to see how people think this compares to the Herring gull image I posted the other day, as well as the usual c&c.
Camera Model: NIKON D70s
Lens: 300.0 mm f/4.0+ 1.4TC.
Focal Length: 420.0mm (35mm equivalent: 630mm)
Aperture: f/10.0
Exposure Time: 0.0005 s (1/2000)
ISO equiv: 400
Exposure Bias: -1.00 EV
Metering Mode: Matrix
Exposure: aperture priority (semi-auto)
White Balance: Auto
Light Source: Unknown
Flash Fired: No
Color Space: sRGB
Richard:
I like the clouds in background here. Some sharpening effects/halos, esp. along the leading edge of the birds right wing.
Some noise showing in the darker underwing areas. I would like to open up the shadows a bit there, but the noise may be a worse issue then.
I like the framing/comp.
Hi Richard Image does appear a bit funky Sort of like it was lighten a lot? With that pose and going AV -1 will produce an under exposed bird every time !! Problem with most of those is that we want to conserve the pretty sky but its tough !!
Thnks for all the comments - which I agree with, after looking more critically at the image. Here's the original - re-sized from the .nef file and saved as a jpeg with no other post-processing applied. As you can see, I had to crop++ and do some lightening and NR. I had underexposed by 1 stop, to avoid blowing out the whites.
Another Herring gull
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