Up There

Gallery: AvianPosted March 20, 201185 views5 comments

Again working to perfect my fill flash technique. Shot on the same day with fill flash . This one came out a little better I think.
Needed to rotate image ever so slightly so cropped about 5%

Canon 7D 300 mm 2.8L with 1.4X
580EXII better beamer
400 ISO 7.1 @1/320 tripod

Comments

5 comments

Comment posted by Steve Balke on March 20, 2011 at 9:54 PM

Lovely shot, Cheryl. Cute pose and some nice detail on bird and perch. The bg is a little bright: maybe more impact if you could improve the contrast between bird and bg by lowering exposure on bg a bit. Does not look "overflashed" to me. Teeny-tiny catchlight could be larger.

Registered on June 18, 2009, 229 Posts, 2915 Comments

Comment posted by Dennis Plank on March 20, 2011 at 11:27 PM

I like what the fill flash did for the bg, Cheryl. To my eye, the bird looks just a trifle soft, and the solid black eye is a bit offputting.

What exposure compensation are you using for your flash shots?

Registered on January 28, 2008, 1767 Posts, 23192 Comments

Comment posted by Cheryl Molennor on March 21, 2011 at 9:14 AM

Thanks you two. Dennis the flash exposure comp was never set, so this is full flash, I have learned from then

Also ye the eye, I thought that as well. I tried to burn out the flash reflection. I shall fix that

Registered on June 30, 2009, 300 Posts, 5051 Comments

Comment posted by Gary Marquart on March 21, 2011 at 12:50 PM

A delightful image Cheryl, I like the background and the pose, it's unique and adds interest to the image, and because of the pose I think the vertical crop works very well. If this was mine I might have cropped to have the bird a little more to the right in the frame but I don't know what the background was like further to the left. In any case, it's a very nice image as is.

Registered on October 24, 2009, 126 Posts, 799 Comments

Comment posted by Ron Dudley on March 21, 2011 at 8:43 PM

The endearing pose makes the shot for me Cheryl. Not tack sharp perhaps but not bad either.

Registered on March 30, 2007, 437 Posts, 10915 Comments