Posted by Paul Ashton on November 21, 2007 at 4:13 PM
These guys were quite obliging today. Although the sun was a bit harsh I'm well pleased with the results which I think are my best so far.
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Posted by Stuart McCrae on November 21, 2007 at 4:25 PM
Hi Paul,nice shot of a bird I've never seen before,maybe a stupid question but why iso800 surely in that light you could have used lower and reduced your noise.Not that it's overly noisey but there is evidence???
Stu.
Posted by Paul Ashton on November 21, 2007 at 4:31 PM
The light kept changing quite quickly. I'm fed up with getting unsharp images so am tending to use a minimum shutter speed of 1/500
Paul
Posted by Andy Astbury on November 22, 2007 at 4:11 AM
I agree with you Paul - it's a grand shoot
f11 seems to have worked well for you here
Where the green OoF area is there's some odd bits of bokeh that look noisy-ish - I'd be tempted to just tap them with a soft blur tool just to add a bit of smoothing to them.
Nice image of a birds I've never clapped eyes on
Posted by Mark Sisson on November 22, 2007 at 12:19 PM
Good stuff - not a common bird and in a more interesting setting than they can be seen in!
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Stu.
Paul
f11 seems to have worked well for you here
Where the green OoF area is there's some odd bits of bokeh that look noisy-ish - I'd be tempted to just tap them with a soft blur tool just to add a bit of smoothing to them.
Nice image of a birds I've never clapped eyes on
Mark
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