Mark III 500 f/4.0 2x TC EV-1/3 125th @ f/10 ISO 800
Captured this show off last saturday. don't know what that is above his eye - it was present in all this sequence of images - forgot to clone... Critiques and comments always welcome..
Hi Bruce Nice looking Red Wing !!! If you wish you can post at the max size Would be easier to evaluate
When lining the bird suggest checking the bg in the viewfinder Having the one light brach right in his head detracts from image From the selected aperture setting would suggest shooting wide open the 1/125 ss could cause a soft image and blurring if the bird moves.
Cropping wise need more room particularly bottom It is very tight !!! Most birds with bright red need to have the reds de saturated Nothing on your part just the way the camera makes them look !!!
The classic pose for these guys is wings out beak wide open and staring into the camera !!! Not easy but hope you get one !!!
Hey Harold - I just sent a private e-mail to Alfred hoping he will give me some tips on making jpegs from light room (lr). I know he uses lr, but i don't know to what extent.. I do most of my image improvement in lr and only use ps if I have to work with quick mask or other layering work. lr only changes things when you output to some other program or to a jpeg. this makes it way easier to change exposure, levels, sharpening, etc here in lr cause you don't have to worry about doing things in order and working on backup copies like you have to do in ps. i was telling alfred that i spent a lot of time in ps working on the bg of the redwinged bb i posted - it looked great in ps, but I think the color mgmt got changed and the jpeg i exported from ps looked like crap. so, i exported a jpeg from lr and just left the bg alone. you have to really fool around in lr to get a 150 kb jpeg exported. I just took what it gave me - didn't look too bad for just 87 kb, but not as good as it should have looked. anyway, that's what happended.
hey bruce, check this out! fabs explains how to do what you want to do with PS. it's awesome stuff. you can find it in the educational resources forum.
Hey Sweet Thing - Check out my wings!!
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