Between the singing lessons and all the practice, hopefully this little guy has a shot at the karaoke contest tonight!
I posted a marsh wren on the Avian Forum, taken a few days ago. I am attacking my learning curve on the new 40D and while the days old shot wasn't too bad it was more luck and experimentation. Before todays shoot I spent more time setting up the camera for optimum results. I whistled the same wren out of the grasses and up onto the cattails (at least we whistled/chattered back and forth to each other) he was very cooperative. Out of 160 shots almost all were sharp, detailed and action was frozen. I used about F/5.6 with the 600mm and if I were to change anything it would be to increase the DOF with a higher stop.
Other then that, it was a great day at the Ridgefield Refuge.
I could use help in toning down the white area at the top of the cattail. Is the image too dark? If I try and lighten it the whites will go.
Craig, nice shot. Glad he came out to play. Sat. morning I went on a 5 hour hike through Stigerwald (sp) refuge here in Washougal with one of the Wildlife Guides.The 10 of us spotted exactlly 50 bird species. No good photos with only a 200mm lens, but it was interesting.
It's a great capture, Craig.. I think it could stand a *little* brightening though. If you use Photoshop CS3, have you tried using the recovery adjustment in Raw to save a little detail of the whites? And in all versions I have sometimes used the lasso tool to select the white areas in an image, set the feathering to about 40 pixels, then chose selective color - picking whites and sliding in a little black - just a little to tone it down a bit...
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6 repliesI posted a marsh wren on the Avian Forum, taken a few days ago. I am attacking my learning curve on the new 40D and while the days old shot wasn't too bad it was more luck and experimentation. Before todays shoot I spent more time setting up the camera for optimum results. I whistled the same wren out of the grasses and up onto the cattails (at least we whistled/chattered back and forth to each other) he was very cooperative. Out of 160 shots almost all were sharp, detailed and action was frozen. I used about F/5.6 with the 600mm and if I were to change anything it would be to increase the DOF with a higher stop.
Other then that, it was a great day at the Ridgefield Refuge.
I could use help in toning down the white area at the top of the cattail. Is the image too dark? If I try and lighten it the whites will go.
Canon EOS 40D, 600mm +1.4X F/5.6 1/1300 ISO250
Thanks for you suggestions!
David M. Cobb