pulled over on the shoulder to watch this Egret and try to figure out where I'd want to approach this guy when I had more time. my gear was in the back seat and the light was going away fast.. first thing i know here he comes right towards me. I eased over into the passenger sead, got the BLUBB in place and got my 300 f/4 on my camera with the 1.4 TC. He came to within about 15 yards of me!
30D, 300 f/4 IS X 1.4, (420mm) f/5.6 1/100 ISO 400 EV0
The exposure looks good. You did a good job getting him in the clear (grass, etc.) for a nice habitat image. IF you intent was to crop the legs you did so mid-way between joints which is the right idea. However, I think here including the legs would make for a stronger image. You could have taken off the TC or gone vertical. I also notice what looks like noise but with the 30D and ISO 400 I would not think it would be such bad noise. So I am thinking one of two things happened. THis was underexposed (which does not seem to be the case given the techs) and you increased the brightness in curves and levels - that will accentuate noise, or it is a JPG and has seen multiple saves. If JPG, consider trying out RAW as you will have better control over the final image quality.
Hi Robert, not sure why this came of of PS this way - it was a raw file that I worked on and converted in light room then opened in PS to sharpen and size for the web. could it be that i sharpened too much? did 3 times @ 125, .3 and 0 using smart sharpen. It looked much better before! I've got a another image that I cropped to isolate the head, did extensive bg cleaning in PS and sharpened the same was, and it looks great even though I screwed up when I resized it so it's only about 43K. I'll post that tomorrow. thanks for your comments Robert!
That's kind of weird as neither the exposure or JPG issues may have caused this since you processed in RAW. Sharpening probably is the culperit. Go to http://www.birdphotographers.net/for...9212#post49212 and look through this thread. Especially Artie's post small-JPG routine and a few posts done for additional comments. This should help.
Last edited by Robert Amoruso; 03-10-2008 at 06:21 PM.
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