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    After critiquing what seems like a zillion images, many of them quite excellent, I offer this White Pelican from the post X-Mas IPT. This bird was attracted to our position by Alfredo Don Diego, long time BAA Posse member and fish monger... Canon 400mm f/4L DO lens handheld with the EOS-1Ds MIII. ISO 400 in late afternoon light. Evaluative metering +2/3 stop: 1/2500 sec. at f/5. 45-point AAFPS AF. Placida, FL.

    AF on the MIII 1Ds produced virtually all images sharp on the eye...

    later and love and thanks for looking. artie
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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Morris View Post
    After critiquing what seems like a zillion images, many of them quite excellent, I offer this White Pelican from the post X-Mas IPT. This bird was attracted to our position by Alfredo Don Diego, long time BAA Posse member and fish monger... Canon 400mm f/4L DO lens handheld with the EOS-1Ds MIII. ISO 400 in late afternoon light. Evaluative metering +2/3 stop: 1/2500 sec. at f/5. 45-point AAFPS AF.

    AF on the MIII 1Ds produced virtually all images sharp on the eye...

    later and love and thanks for looking. artie
    Dear Art,
    Not bad! You are getting the "hang" of it!
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    Geeze, this is fabulous Art. The detail, subtle light, pose and bg...all fantastic. ;)

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    One sweet image Artie !!!!!! Particularly like the slightly different wing positions !!!!

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    Great image Art... but as my first post I would like to maybe post something other then just that comment. How do you feel about less room on top and more on the bottom of the bird... just so that he can have a place to land??

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    Thanks for the suggestion Tom but I like it exactly as is

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    Art, this is very cool! I like the fact we can see what appears to be a few water ripples from where the feet probably already skimmed the water. Can I mention one negative, if I may?...my eye keepes wandering to the yellow/pink reflection top left.

    Also want to mention that I am enjoying this forum immensely...great start to it!!

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    Hi Artie, great exposure and image! BTW, is this using the Highlight recovery custom function ?

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    Pose, light, timing and details are excellent. I find the reflection on the upper left side a bit distracting.

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    Outstanding landing, beautiful lighting, but the reflection in the top left corner is somewhat distracting.

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    Interesting choice of cropping (or framing in camera), Art. The more traditional approach would be to put him a little more left and up in the frame. The way you have it here adds more tension as he seems to be landing out of the frame, I think. Obviously a choice and not an oversight, coming from you :) Always interesting to see how the rules can be broken for different effects.

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    All wonderful, my only nitpick is the same as per Daniel Cadieux. :)

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    Fantastic colors and pose! I find the upper left a little distracting but that is minor, lovely shot Arthur:cool:

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    Lovely shot. I like the fact that he is low in the frame and funny thing I didnt even notice
    the upper left reflection until it was mentioned. I think the fact that the Pelican is the largest, brightest and sharpest thing in the photo catches your eye even thought it comes into the photo from the left.
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    I just love the detail of this shot. The clarity is great and I really like the shot.

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    a lovely image! I have several photos of pelicans and none of them with +2/3 overexposure - usually use underexposure. I would like to ask you how do you get the soft good development of the white whithout being burn it at iso 800 + 2/3 overexposure?

    And one more - as I intend to buy 1D mark III within the month, is the 45-point AAFPS AF mode reliable for continious shooting, instead of using only the central AF for light-heeled birds?

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    Hi Artie,

    You captured this guy right on time, just as he was touching the water. The wings are terrific and the exposure is on the money. My only thing would be the strong colors in the top left of the image. The are a little too strong against the dark water.

    I'm going to this spot this weekend.

    Thanks!

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    Excellent imaget. Very nice timing! I agree about the upper left corner and initially on the compostional suggestion, but this is growing on me. In any case a lovely shot!:)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Samuel Mulder View Post
    Interesting choice of cropping (or framing in camera), Art. The more traditional approach would be to put him a little more left and up in the frame. The way you have it here adds more tension as he seems to be landing out of the frame, I think. Obviously a choice and not an oversight, coming from you :) Always interesting to see how the rules can be broken for different effects.
    Samuel was on one of the recent Bosque IPTs and stuck to me like glue. He is one smart man and learned a lot. When teaching flight photography, I often say, "Universal advice for better flight photography: pan faster. Though I have been doing this for almost 25 years I sometimes fail to follow my own advise (as with this image).

    As a result, the bird was a bit too far forward in the frame, but when I saw the (lovely to my eye) reflections, I cropped out only the strongest reflections from the top and from the left of the frame. I could certainly have cropped out all of the brightest yellow reflections to yield a more traditional (but slightly too large in the frame image), but chose to leave what I did of the yellow reflections to better balance the composition. This set up the tension that Samuel mentioned.

    As for the +2/3 compensation, Nikolay is in part, correct. I have been teaching folks for two decades to subtract 1/3 stop of light when working with bright white birds against middle toned backgrounds when the sun is at full strength. That was not the case here as it was late in the day (thus the lovely light(.

    With most cameras in this situation I would expect that zero would have yielded a good exposure. But with digital capture you get to check the histogram after the first exposure. And, having worked with my EOS 1-D Mark III bodies extensively for the past 9 months and the new MIII 1Ds for a few hours, I knew that both of these camera bodies (at least the ones that I own), tended to render images a bit too dark, so I started out at +1/3, and then, in an effort to create a histogram with data in the fifth box, went to +2/3 stop. Learning to evaluate, work with and adjust your histogram is one of the huge advantages of digital...

    If you would like to learn more about my system of coming up with the right exposure, click here: http://www.birdsasart.com/bn190.htm

    Also for Nikolay, 45 point AAFPS works superbly on the 1Ds MIII especially as compared to 45 point on the MIII bodies.

    Later and love to all, artie

    ps: I am fine with those who do not like the reflections in the ulc. Do realize that all critiquing comments and suggestions are highly subjective.

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    It's OK.................


    Only Joking, this is really a great capture, I am in awe of you Arthur.. if I can get half as good as that I will be pleased...

    To me it looks like the bird is going "TaDa" as it lands :D
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    Sweet shot Artie I love the graceful landing pose captured by this beautiful bird.

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    The proud look he has on his face as he is about to land is what caught my eye and the perfect timing . Just a beautiful creation of the natural beauty that surrounds. Really love this Artie and many thanks for all the info behind this capture.

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    Thank you very much Arthur :)
    The detailed explanation shed light on the exposure tretment.
    The link is welcome, too.

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    What can I say? .. You are the man. :)

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    Artie, I'm responding to your question as to whether or not I like the color in the left hand corner, from your BAA email update. I like it. I enjoy warm colors so it is pleasing to me.

    Curt

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