Roseate Spoonbills

[Rachel Hollander]

Taken early morning at Ding Darling, Sanibel.

Canon 7D
100-400 @ 400mm
1/1000
f6.3
ISO 400
HH, slight crop from RHS and above

C&C welcome and appreciated.

Thanks,
Rachel

[Sid Garige]

Rachel,

Just a bit over exposed other than that like the quality of light and subject placement.

Here is a tip on working with multiple subjects. Considering the long focal lengths we use DOF is very narrow and mostly enough to get one subject in focus unless they both are in the same focus zone. From your image I see the spoonbill standing on the left got the critical focus and the spoonbill on the right is kind of out of focus zone.

if you are using tripod and subjects are stationary this works very well.
1. Compose your image with both subjects in the frame.
2. Move focus point on to first birds take an image.
3. Move focus point on to second bird and take another image.
4. Stack them in post processing.

Here is an example I recently work on
http://www.birdphotographers.net/for...lls?highlight=

[Rachel Hollander]

Thanks Sid. Unfortunately, it was a quick trip and I didn't take the tripod with me. Thanks for the suggestion on stacking, I've never tried it.

Rachel

[Sid Garige]

Thanks Sid. Unfortunately, it was a quick trip and I didn't take the tripod with me. Thanks for the suggestion on stacking, I've never tried it.

Rachel

How is Ding btw? I got a client next week and we are planning to hit Ding in the morning.

-Sid

[Rachel Hollander]

How is Ding btw? I got a client next week and we are planning to hit Ding in the morning.

-Sid

I was only there for the one morning Saturday 3/26 and it was great but I have no reference to compare it to. I did hear others saying it was the best day in weeks and the first day there had been a number of roseates in weeks.

Rachel

[Stan Cunningham]

Just my 2 cents from some one new, but when I started getting serious I quit hand holding my 100-400.
I'm happy with my 70-200 with a 1.4 or even a 2.0, but I've even sent the lens to be corrected but still not happy with most IQ unless I have it on a tripod. But others seem happy with theirs.

[Kerry Perkins]

Hi Rachel, good points made by Sid above. You had a good idea with the shot and it would have worked much better if you had been able to move to the left a bit. As mentioned, you have some very hot whites and the red channel is extremely hot with a lot of clipped pixels (255 values). With the techs given, I probably would have been shooting at 1/3200. How did you meter the scene?