Posted by Barry Southon on March 20, 2007 at 9:41 AM
Having taken the welcome advice offered on board from previous posts I have spent some time trying to put the same into practice with my efforts in a local park. The trial and error continues.
Canon 350D 50mm-500mm @500mm 1/800sec f6.3 ISO 400 AF
Comments and Critique most welcome.
Thank you
Barry
Posted by John Chapman on March 20, 2007 at 11:21 AM
Hi Barry
nice image of the Blue Tit if it was mine I would sharpen it a little bit more.
John
Aberdeen
A certain improvement IMO and a nice pose captured. I have taken the liberty of downloading the image and done some alterations. Hope you don't mind, i'll delete it now
Compositionally, I think it's unbalanced and a bit central int he frame with a lot of dead space behind. I have cropped this out and left the remaining room on the right as it leaves some space for the subject to look into. You haven't stated whether it's hand-held or tripod?
I've also applied some USM at 5 x 100,0.2,0 and upped the saturation and used shadow highlight tool. It's probably overcooked a bit. This version may not be what you intended, but it's how I would process the image. Hope it helps
Forgot to say that with your techs, you could have upped narrowed the aperture to f8 to improve the DOF getting the feet sharper for example. Maybe a narrower aperture if you use a tripod
Posted by Barry Southon on March 20, 2007 at 5:23 PM
Graeme
What a difference when you know your art. I'm still struggling with the processing aspect its so complex. All of my postings are handheld or vehicle window shots. Camera shake is always a factor when I'm trying to contain my enthusiasm for what I see. Does that make sense? My recent efforts in the park without a hide are quick bursts. The subjects are so fast. I have suceeded in securing photos of the subject there they are gone a number of times. Can I download your processed version?
Thank you for time and advice. I feel I'm making some progress albeit slow.
Yeah no worries Barry. I'd just reprocess yours and selectively sharpen the bird. Will be better than my version as I have had to work with a compressed and previously sharpened image with loses a lot of quality.Cheers
It is certainly getting there... opportunistic bird photography really isn't that easy, Graeme has shown what potential there is in this image, the 50-500 really does need to be stopped down to at least f8 for the best sharpness, with such a large range some compromises had to be taken, one of these is that it is not the sharpest beast wide open at the long end....
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6 repliesCanon 350D 50mm-500mm @500mm 1/800sec f6.3 ISO 400 AF
Comments and Critique most welcome.
Thank you
Barry
nice image of the Blue Tit if it was mine I would sharpen it a little bit more.
John
Aberdeen
A certain improvement IMO and a nice pose captured. I have taken the liberty of downloading the image and done some alterations. Hope you don't mind, i'll delete it now
Compositionally, I think it's unbalanced and a bit central int he frame with a lot of dead space behind. I have cropped this out and left the remaining room on the right as it leaves some space for the subject to look into. You haven't stated whether it's hand-held or tripod?
I've also applied some USM at 5 x 100,0.2,0 and upped the saturation and used shadow highlight tool. It's probably overcooked a bit. This version may not be what you intended, but it's how I would process the image. Hope it helps
Forgot to say that with your techs, you could have upped narrowed the aperture to f8 to improve the DOF getting the feet sharper for example. Maybe a narrower aperture if you use a tripod
What a difference when you know your art. I'm still struggling with the processing aspect its so complex. All of my postings are handheld or vehicle window shots. Camera shake is always a factor when I'm trying to contain my enthusiasm for what I see. Does that make sense? My recent efforts in the park without a hide are quick bursts. The subjects are so fast. I have suceeded in securing photos of the subject there they are gone
Thank you for time and advice. I feel I'm making some progress albeit slow.
Barry
It is certainly getting there... opportunistic bird photography really isn't that easy, Graeme has shown what potential there is in this image, the 50-500 really does need to be stopped down to at least f8 for the best sharpness, with such a large range some compromises had to be taken, one of these is that it is not the sharpest beast wide open at the long end....
Looking forward to more as you progress...