I'd like to take credit for this image but it was purely an accident. The painted bunting I was photographing left the perch he was on and this is what I ended up with.. A lot of people I show it to just don't seem to get it but then others do. What do you think?
Canon 20D, 1/80 sec at 5.6, 100-400L at 400mm, 1600 iso, fill flash at -3. Image taken 5/17/06.
Hi Marvin, posted too small but then I clicked on it to show the larger version. Not really doing much for me to be honest, too much blur and not enough to really see the bird well enough. It's worth trying again, these kinds of shots have a low success rate in my experience. Sure are fun to take though.
I had to click on the thumbnail to see the image. I like the idea but would prefer if at least the head were in focus. Might be also a good submission for the 'out of the box' section.
I can't seem to figure out how to post the picture so it can been seen without clicking on the "thumbnail" version. I've resized the jpeg to meet the website requirments and this is what I get when I upload the jpeg. This is my second submission, and I'm not trying to submit a thumbnail.
Jody Melanson said in response to the same problem in my first post:
What I did was:
just open your full size image, right click on it, copy the info found in location and pasted into the insert image button.
But I'm not understanding what she said. I tried to follow that but never saw those options. When/where do I open my full size image and what image is she talking about? The one before I reduced it for the website requirements? Could someone please fill me in on what I'm doing wrong? I'm really lost here...
Something else I've noticed in my two posts - the colors come out somewhat bleached. I appear to be losing some saturation when I convert the images in Phototshop using "Save to Web". Any ideas on what I could do differently there?
Marvin, my images also lose a little saturation and darkness when I save them for Web in CS2. That's true even when I'm in sRGB. I've learned, once I've got something sized and ready to post, to just saturate and darken a bit over what looks "right" on my monitor and it comes out looking good online. Now, I'm sure that's just a workaround and there's a way to correct that, but I haven't had the time to get that deeply into it.