yellowcrownednightheron
by Justin strang
i am now shooting in raw and have read some of the different tutorials. i have a lot to learn and am thankful for all the critiquing. this picture is of a yellow crowned night heron i saw when on a walk.
eos rebel t5i
55 to 250 telephoto lens
ex. 1/250
ap. 10
iso 800
i am hoping this image is larger while trying to reduce the noise.
Comments
4 commentsThe heron is a touch soft and could use a round of sharpening. However, before getting into post processing, I think you could have changed a couple of things in camera to make your job easier. I am not real familiar wight the limits of the Rebel T5i when it comes to the noise it might generate, but think ISO 800 seems to be pushing its limits on the processor. I would have suggested to back that to ISO 400 or at most 640. I see your shutter speed was 1/250 and this could have easily been increased (even with the lower ISO) by opening up your Aperture a bit more. F/10 looks to have been more DOF than you needed especially with shooting the bird side view. Probably f/6.3 would have been a better choice and would have allowed you to lower your ISO thus creating less noise in the shot, a faster shutter speed and helped with both the sharpness of the shot as well as made the background less distracting and creating a smoother bokeh. Hope this helps and look forward to seeing more.
I think this is stronger than some of your earlier posts. Glad you are finding the critiques valuable. This image looks pretty good. It has a couple of areas for improvement. Overall the image is dark. Are you working on a calibrated monitor? The heron is not quite sharp. A bit of noise, but nothing too bad. I'm provided a modified version for comparison with an overall change in brightness, and sharpening the bird.