Marbled Godwit
Taken on a sand bar in the Alafia River with James Shadle....tripod adjusted low and kneeling in the mud....it was great.
Clear afternoon sun....used Sunny 16 Rule.
1D MKIII
500mm f/4 + 1.4 TC
ISO 400
1/2000
f/8
ACR and CS5, MacBook Pro, cropped for position, nothing cloned or added.
Lovely shot, Joel. I particularly like the bubbly water in the foreground. If this were mine, I would clone out the dot on the right hand side and maybe try to lighten the eye just a touch.
Last edited by Maureen Allen; 10-14-2010 at 12:15 AM.
Maureen,
I think you are correct.....if you start at f/16 and set your shutter speed equal to your iso (1/400 at iso 400 in this case) then.....
opening up to f/8 would be adding 2 full stops....you would then expect to increase shutter speed 2 full stops which would be 1/1600...again the starting point
what I found was that I had too many "blinkies" and was pushing the highlights too far to the right so I bumped the shutter to 1/2000.
Thanks Joel. i deleted that part of the post after I spent some time reading last night about Sunny 16. I figured that it was just as you said - lots of light/reflection there and you probably needed to up the shutter speed. Anyhow, thanks for the explanation.
Some of this is starting to sink in - I think.. :D
Lovely Godwit image. The details look nice, the sunny 16 rule has worked wonderfully here. What metering did you use for this image?
Thanks Mark, I used evaluative metering.....should have included that with post....oops!:o
Here's the deal. On a true Sunny 16 day, you don't need the light meter;).Originally Posted by Mark Young
Very nicely done Joel.
Exposed well, nice and sharp. Many folks have a hard time getting sharp images the first time they use a super telephoto. Obviously you didn't have that problem:).
IMO a little off the top (putting the eye more above the center line and still keeping enough so it does not feel cramped) would make this an even stronger image.
Thanks for the kind words James,
I suspect that my success with the 500mm lens was more than enhanced by your teaching me some fundamental techniques and then reminding me when I was digressing to my old habits.
Just another juicy tidbit that I learned from my one day workshop with you, as I told you that day.....time and money well spent IMHO.
Step on soap box :
For anyone reading this ... if you are a beginner like me .... if you can get there for even one day with James you will not regret it ...you will get opportunities to make great images and a day of great instruction and advice at a very affordable rate...it will boost you up the learning curve big time.
Step off soap box now.
Joel
Posting Permissions
