Ibis in Flight

[Kevin Giannini]

Hello,

This was taken at Ft Fisher, North Carolina. Taken with the Canon 7D, Canon 300mm IS f/4, with the following settngs: f/5.6 1/1600, ISO 800, taken at 70AM. Moderate crop, with some noise reduction.

Kevin

[Ian Cassell]

Kevin,
Nice capture in beautiful light. A slight turn of the head towards you would have been ideal, but I really like this.

[Jeff Cashdollar]

Kevin,

Nice picture, BIF are challenging and you framed this well. Curious are you set to AWB there seems to be a warm color tent on the body. Did you warm the image, how much if any saturation was added.

Was the image a bit underexposed, the bright sky can move the images towards mid tone and underexpose often necessary to add a 1 or 1.5 stops to compensate - just something to keep in mind if the histogram is not well distributed in the first two stops on the right (when shooting towards a bright source). I am still picking up some noise in the background let's see what others say. Thanks for the post - keep em coming brother!

[Kevin Giannini]

Hi Jeff and Ian,

Thanks! In ACR, I actually cooled the WB slightly, from 5900 as shot, to abut 5700. I also adjusted the luminance of the yellows slightly cause it was a little hot (as well as adjusting the recovery slider). I think what made this a little too warm, now that I look at it fresh, is when I bumped up the vibrance slider, which I usually do, as well as the clarity slider. It always seems to bump up the yellows too much, and what I usually do is lessen the yellow saturation. I guess I didn't here. But about the exposure - no, it wasn't under exposed originally - this one seemed to be okay but others in the series were even a little over exposed. The original print size has a very smooth sky - no noise (that I see). What I did here was reduce for the web and re-sharpen (which I normally do), but then I reduced it again to bring down the size for this forum. I think I slightly sharpened again - I wonder if that brought out the noise? Thanks again for the comments!
Kevin

[Don Davis]

Beautiful inflight capture Kevin thank you.

[Ronald Zigler]

Wonderful picture Kevin.