Long-tailed Jaeger

Gallery: AvianPosted June 3, 2013120 views4 comments

Canon 1D X, 300mm x 2.0 TC, handheld kneeling on tundra
f7.1, 1/1000, ISO200

A good weekend on the Denali Highway. It's still winter at the higher elevations, but a few species have arrived. This Jaeger had prey, and let us approach fairly close. I am pretty pleased with the camera's management of the pure whites and pure blacks in the late afternoon sunlight.

80% of full frame. Slight sharpening to bird. Levels unadjusted.

C & C, please. Thanks for looking.

(I've re-calibrated my monitor with Spyder 3.X. Please let me know if it still appears dark.)

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on June 3, 2013 at 12:01 PM

Great bird - nice pose and habitat - nice side-lighting, too -
Does seem dark to me - the detail in the head is lost, as well as in the breast and tail.
Thanks for the reminder to re-calibrate here too!

Sandy

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Comment posted by Charlie VanTassel on June 3, 2013 at 5:03 PM

Maybe it's supposed to be dark. It's Alaska.

Nice work, Jim, but could use some lightening in the shadows.

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Comment posted by Jim DeWitt on June 3, 2013 at 7:12 PM

Time for a new monitor, I think. I'd been holding out waiting for Apple to announce a new Mac Pro, but if I can't get the brightness right after calibration, I think it's time to swap.

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on June 3, 2013 at 8:39 PM

Nice, Jim. The afternoon light really comes through in this image, and the detail is great. To my eye and on my monitor the image still looks just a bit dark, but the blacks are still showing detail, so it may be where you intended it. (I haven't calibrated my monitor in awhile either).

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