I See You

Gallery: AvianPosted August 2, 2010148 views6 comments

I am very interested in hawks and enjoy photographing them, although from time to time they try to snitch one on my hybrid bantums. This one was so intent on getting a meal that he let me get to within 15 feet of him and just sat and stared at me. I had to use athe SH tool because it was too dark, but now I think I see noise in the background. Am I right? Or is this from over sharpening.
Sony a100, Iso 100, Lens, 75-300,

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Comment posted by Ron Bielefeld on August 2, 2010 at 5:33 PM

Jackie, bringing up an underexposed image will increase the noise in an image. This image has quite a bit of noise in the BG, but also in the bird. This indicates to me that you increased the brightness quite a bit given your low ISO of 100. This is a good example of why it is so important to get the image as close to perfect in-camera as you can. Post-processing cannot save an image if it is not very close to correct in-camera. These comments are nothing personal, just building off the question you raised in your comments and trying to be constructive and help you get better. Cheers.

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Comment posted by Cheyenne Howell on August 2, 2010 at 5:53 PM

Hey, Thanks Ron, Here's a repost. It has been so long since I have posted that I have almost forgotten how. The first one was saved as a giff, this one as a jpg file. I think it is quiet a bit better but still some noise in the hawk. Thanks for taking the time to comment, I'm am never offended when someone is trying to help.

Registered on March 20, 2007, 190 Posts, 678 Comments

Comment posted by Buck Ward on August 2, 2010 at 9:23 PM

Jaclie
The noise in the green area is really noticeable. Your cropped repost seems to take care of that. He's a good looking bird.

Registered on December 8, 2003, 96 Posts, 1917 Comments

Comment posted by Ron Bielefeld on August 2, 2010 at 10:06 PM

Jackie, the repost is much better. Way, way better, really.

Registered on December 6, 2008, 360 Posts, 7132 Comments

Comment posted by Ronnie Gaubert on August 2, 2010 at 10:09 PM

Hi Jackie,
Lucky for you to get that close to a hawk. To bad you underexposed the shot. Severly underexposed images will always be a noise problem. The repost looks much better than the original.
Thanks for posting,
Ronnie G.

Registered on November 1, 2003, 810 Posts, 3495 Comments

Comment posted by Mia McPherson on August 3, 2010 at 12:57 PM

Jackie,
I agree with what Ron & Ronnie have said in their critiques. I wanted to add that if you had perhaps used some positive ev compensation the image wouldn't have been so dark. Also I'd recommend using a higer ISO than you used here.

Registered on June 25, 2007, 491 Posts, 12566 Comments