Another from my recent trip to Finland. This was taken at a forest feeder.
1D MarkIII + 500/4 + tc1.4; iso400, f7.1; 1/500
Posted by Major Gilbert on March 11, 2008 at 11:26 AM
Top Notch Helge. Well done.
Major.
Posted by Elliott Neep on March 11, 2008 at 11:31 AM
Love the light and colours, but can't help feeling there is some motion blur on the head. Might be my eyes... have spent the whole day at the screen!
Posted by Craig Nash on March 11, 2008 at 11:55 AM
I wish I could see one of these. It looks a bit soft to me as well.
Posted by John Robinson on March 11, 2008 at 11:55 AM
Great shot, Helge.
I reckon just a tiny bit over to the right would help a bit - so the bird is not looking so much out of the shot. But no big deal.
JohnR
Posted by Chris Lloyd on March 11, 2008 at 11:56 AM
Can't help feeling that the image is slightly soft as well. Love the colours and the bird though!
Very nice Helge... can't help wondering whether you forgot to sharpen after resizing it...
Hope you don't mind I ran it through smart sharpen at amount 90, radius 0.3, and lens blur and it looks a whole lot better to me at least....
Posted by John Chapman on March 11, 2008 at 12:42 PM
Hi Helge just seen this image in another Forum and it is sharp I do not know what has happened here but it is a bit soft though PhilH has made a good job. These are great birds and it is in a great setting.
John
Aberdeen
Posted by David Kjaer on March 11, 2008 at 1:13 PM
Hi Helge
The sharpened version is a real 'stunner' great pose, perch, BG and I love the soft lighting!
Ups, you are so right guys.... I apparently did a very stupid thing. As John said I posted the same photo over on the other forum. Overthere size is 750 and here it's 720, so I took the photo down from my web-page, and resized from 750 to 720, in the only program I had on my PC at work "Windows Picture Manager". I did the same thing a couple of days ago with my WT eagle-photo - apparently without any big problems.
OK, so I learned a lesson - always make two versions... and don't use "Windows Picture Manager".
I agree with your version, Phil - thanks for posting it, the one I have at home is pretty much identical!
Cheers, Helge
Posted by Paul Inglis on March 11, 2008 at 1:56 PM
Hi Helge,
Superb shot!
Posted by Colin Pickett on March 11, 2008 at 2:38 PM
Discussion
21 replies1D MarkIII + 500/4 + tc1.4; iso400, f7.1; 1/500
Major.
I reckon just a tiny bit over to the right would help a bit - so the bird is not looking so much out of the shot. But no big deal.
JohnR
Chris.
Hope you don't mind I ran it through smart sharpen at amount 90, radius 0.3, and lens blur and it looks a whole lot better to me at least....
John
Aberdeen
The sharpened version is a real 'stunner' great pose, perch, BG and I love the soft lighting!
David
OK, so I learned a lesson - always make two versions... and don't use "Windows Picture Manager".
I agree with your version, Phil - thanks for posting it, the one I have at home is pretty much identical!
Cheers, Helge
Superb shot!
Dave
Hi Helga,
What a lovely image that repost is just supurb.
Repost is a grat deal better over you're original post , but still an excellent capture on your part , top work.
Andy...
Fantastic shot