Pintail w/repost

Gallery: AvianPosted February 23, 2011198 views11 comments

Nikon D7000
600mm + 1.4 TC
SS 2500
ISO 800
F/7.1
Manual Exposure
Manual Metering (Spot)
White Balance sunny
Raw
Tripod/Wimberly

COmments and Suggestions always appreciated. This was a full frame shot and I had to add canvas on the top. I know it's a little tight. Thanks for looking. Have a great week. Please see larger version. I had to reduce this file so much that it was a number 6 for the 200KB file.

Comments

11 comments

Comment posted by Tom_W on February 23, 2011 at 10:08 AM

Stunning complementary BG and sharp where it needs to be. A very good portrait of this species.

T

Registered on December 10, 2003, 38 Posts, 87 Comments

Comment posted by Barbara Graham on February 23, 2011 at 10:59 AM

David, to me with the added canvas the framing is fine. Really nice background, and really nice sharpness and detail on the bird. Really nice image.

Registered on July 27, 2010, 1310 Posts, 5035 Comments

Comment posted by Scott Frye on February 23, 2011 at 11:03 AM

I like the complementary colors and the up swing on the wings. Background looks great

Registered on February 3, 2007, 387 Posts, 1136 Comments

Comment posted by Terry Sohl on February 23, 2011 at 11:09 AM

Wonderful! I find Pintails to be about the toughest duck to approach around here, and they're also pretty speedy in flight! A challenge to be sure, and you did a great job here.

Registered on November 1, 2003, 513 Posts, 6889 Comments

Comment posted by Richard Ditch on February 23, 2011 at 11:15 AM

A very nice flight shot.

Something is wrong with your compression work flow. The larger version is only 50.5 KB in size - about 1/10th of the allowed posting limited.

Edit:

Worse: the 720 px version is only 14.2 KB. The posting limit is now 300 KB.

Registered on November 1, 2003, 1031 Posts, 12705 Comments

Comment posted by Harry Harris on February 23, 2011 at 12:11 PM

Love this capture. As usual your flight shots impress me. You are really nailing shots with the 600mm. Next time we meet, lets talk about uploading our postings. I would like to know if I am doing it correctly also ( see Richard D's comment ).

Registered on August 2, 2010, 169 Posts, 741 Comments

Comment posted by David Haynes on February 23, 2011 at 12:33 PM

Richard and Harry,
Thanks for the information regarding compression work flow. Harry, as you know I am terrible at post procesing and only after talking to you did I discover that I needed to convert my images from RGB to sRGB which was why so many of my images posted were strange looking, oily looking, poor colors, and not sharp. Thank You my friend. Mia once mentioned to me almost a year ago that one of my posts was very tiny indeed but I did not know how to change. If there is anyone who can walk me through the compression process I would be thrilled to learn. Richard, you have helped me before on a question I had when I first signed up about a year ago. I would love help from you or anyone who can provide it to me and others. This might not be the place so an e-mail would be fine. Now every one really knows how bad my processing skills are.

By the way I use Photoshop elements 8. I would be happy to upload a correct image size if I can learn how to do it. This is why I love this community. We can all help each other out. Thank you very much in advance.

Registered on February 20, 2010, 110 Posts, 1511 Comments

Comment posted by Richard Teller on February 23, 2011 at 5:40 PM

Great flight shot of a Pintail, one of my favorite ducks.

Registered on August 23, 2010, 1162 Posts, 6692 Comments

Comment posted by David Haynes on February 23, 2011 at 10:12 PM

Richard,

See if this image works better. I think you may have figured out why my posted images are so small. MANY THANKS to you if this works. The colors look much better to me as well. If not I'll keep on trying.

Registered on February 20, 2010, 110 Posts, 1511 Comments

Comment posted by Richard Ditch on February 23, 2011 at 11:25 PM

Looks like we figured out the problem. The repost is just under 100kb and looks a lot better.

Registered on November 1, 2003, 1031 Posts, 12705 Comments

Comment posted by Simon Bennett on February 24, 2011 at 1:29 AM

Superb flight shot.

Registered on February 4, 2007, 350 Posts, 4614 Comments