Red Breasted Jackall Buzzard

[Jan Fourie]

Taken at Gaints Castle,Kwa Zulu,South Africa
Camera :Canon 1 D mark 1V
Lens :Canon 500mm f4
Shutter Speed : 1/2000
f/8
ISO :2500

[Ken Watkins]

Jan,

There is someting not quite right here, is it noise from the high ISO or a large crop?

Probably the best looking Raptor in Africa, we used to have one visit our telephone pole regularly, but we have not seen him in a while.

[Jan Fourie]

no it was not a large crop:(.I did some NR on BG

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Nice pose. :) Did you increase exposure during conversion? My best guess that the noise in the dark areas is a result of just that. The pose is fab, but I already said that. :) TFS....

[Jan Fourie]

Maybe my NR setting on my camera was too high?I did not increase exp on processing

[Ken Watkins]

Jan,

According to Arties guide to the MKIV, you should disable the NR function, I do.

I only just noticed your high ISO so this may go someway to explain it, I am alsoreliably informed by Sabyaschi that you should never use intermediate ISO as these are a lot noisier. Stick to 200, 400, 800, 1600 I have not yet tried 3200 but I have seen images at this level with reasonable noise.

[Jan Fourie]

Thks for valuable info will use it in future

[Dan Avelon]

Terrific pose and BG, looks like too much sharpening has brought out noise, the head is still soft after sharpening I am not sure if you can save it.

[wendell westfall]

Jan: A beautiful background, but as has been observed, the noise does you no favor.

[Mark Young]

Pose of the bird looks great, nice colours and patterns seen in the bird. I like the lines of the clouds in the bg.