Posted by Barry Southon on January 23, 2008 at 2:59 PM
With all the doom and gloom needed to get out and see what was about in my location. Found this species feeding well I was concerned about the camera settings being correct so any advice C&C most welcome.
RAW downloaded into Lightroom then to PS3 to resize no further adjustment still can't trust my judgement.
Thanks
Barry
Eastbourne
Posted by Andy Astbury on January 23, 2008 at 4:33 PM
It looks slightly soft on my monitor Barry and there's definitely some 'blown' whites on the bird - you might well be able to recover some detail in lightroom though.
I'm a bit puzzled by your techs - f36 - that will get you nowhere with a digital camera except 'blur land' due to diffraction limitation Barry - f11 for Nikon or f16 for Canon 1.3 crop cameras is about as far as you can go before your images start to suffer from diffraction.
You should really not have needed to shoot below f8 or f11 for this 500mm shot as you'd have had enough DoF, so you could have taken those 3 stops in shutter speed and used 1/1000th which would have helped sharpness for a handheld shot.
Sorry to sound a bit negative Barry as it would have made quite a nice capture - I'm just trying to help
Andy has beaten me to most of the probs here, I'm guessing that this is from a public hide given the point of view...lower would be nice if at all possible, the comp with the reflection is nice and the effect of the grey metallic water is nice....
Here the direction of the light is doing you no favours as the oblique facing plumage is far too hot, some highight recovery may help but I am not sure if it would be enough...
F36 must surely be a typo...? don't even think the 50-500 goes down that far, if you mean f5.6 then you aint going to get good performance from that lens at that aperture... it needs to be at least f8... saying that the techs just don't seem to add up in comparison to the image
again sorry if it all sounds negative... and trying to be constructive
Phil
Posted by eric weight on January 24, 2008 at 1:27 AM
Hello Barry,
Your problems with this shot have already ben covered by people that know far more than me about it, but I am so pleased to see this one on here. They are one of my favourite birds, They seem to be one of those birds that are becoming ignored by photographers because they are no longer so rare. I always find it hard to get the eye visible enough to give a focus and life to the picture.
Discussion
3 repliesCanon 350D sigma 50mm-500mm 500mm handheld ISO 800 f/36 1/125 sec
RAW downloaded into Lightroom then to PS3 to resize no further adjustment still can't trust my judgement.
Thanks
Barry
Eastbourne
I'm a bit puzzled by your techs - f36 - that will get you nowhere with a digital camera except 'blur land' due to diffraction limitation Barry - f11 for Nikon or f16 for Canon 1.3 crop cameras is about as far as you can go before your images start to suffer from diffraction.
You should really not have needed to shoot below f8 or f11 for this 500mm shot as you'd have had enough DoF, so you could have taken those 3 stops in shutter speed and used 1/1000th which would have helped sharpness for a handheld shot.
Sorry to sound a bit negative Barry as it would have made quite a nice capture - I'm just trying to help
Andy has beaten me to most of the probs here, I'm guessing that this is from a public hide given the point of view...lower would be nice if at all possible, the comp with the reflection is nice and the effect of the grey metallic water is nice....
Here the direction of the light is doing you no favours as the oblique facing plumage is far too hot, some highight recovery may help but I am not sure if it would be enough...
F36 must surely be a typo...? don't even think the 50-500 goes down that far, if you mean f5.6 then you aint going to get good performance from that lens at that aperture... it needs to be at least f8... saying that the techs just don't seem to add up in comparison to the image
again sorry if it all sounds negative... and trying to be constructive
Phil
Your problems with this shot have already ben covered by people that know far more than me about it, but I am so pleased to see this one on here. They are one of my favourite birds, They seem to be one of those birds that are becoming ignored by photographers because they are no longer so rare. I always find it hard to get the eye visible enough to give a focus and life to the picture.