Sony A850~Sony 70-400G@400mm~ISO 3200~1/2000 sec~F7.1~manual exposure~HH~overcast~1-31-2011~Brazos Bend State Park, Texas~CS5
Female vermillion flycatcher. I know the HA could be better. comments and critique welcomed. regards~Bill
Lovely bird and background. There is a halo especially along the back of the bird which may come from PP. Also I think the head and especially the eye is a bit soft. Also not to sure about the crop, the stick getting more and more OOF and then ending in a branch sticking straight up tends to take my attention from the lovely bird.
Hi Bill - Do see what looks like a halo - unconventional composition though I quite like it - the OOF branches do detract but no way to get them all in focus.
Agree on the HA.
I do like the idea behind this, good thinking. I agree that if the whole perch is in focus then it would be a stronger image. Not sure if there is less room at the top and more at the bottom would give a more on a limb feeling or not, as it might help giving the bird a feeling of being a bit higher. Good noise control with ISO 3200 by the way.
Interesting composition, Bill. I like it but do wish the left portion of the perch was more in focus.
I do not see a halo but agree that the head/eye are a touch soft.
Peter
Appreciate the critique. About the halo; I don't see it but I'm working on a laptop, Is is a 1 pixel wide white halo (sharpening halo)?
As far as the bird being a bit soft, I had that impression as well. I did apply a bit of luminance NR in ACR, and maybe more was needed, but I think that at high ISOs there may be a loss of image IQ that may not be noise related. The crop may have something to do with it as well. The crop was ablout 50%, i.e. 24 to 12 MP. This is normally not a problem, but since the subject is smaller in the frame that usual for me, it might be crop related.
More on digital noise, and something I've been wondering about. Pushing exposure, or exposing so the histogram is shifted to the right thus leaving the dark pixels that cause noise problems out of the equation, and then shifting back in PP, works very well for that nasty clumpy random red/blue/ green noise, but the entire image has a fine grain appearance, that I have no doubt effects detail as in this image. Luminance NR in ACR does a fine jub in taking care of this, it doesn't take much. However, there is a loss of detailthat wouldn't happen at much lower ISOs. Just wondering about this phenomenon. regards~Bill
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