Posted by Barry Southon on June 16, 2012 at 11:40 AM
Just one more from my White and Black challenge trying to keep both balanced without too much loss of detail.
Canon 1D3 on gimbal on a tripod and just to up the difficulty level from a boat.1/2000sec f/8.0 ISO 800 EF 800mm f/5.6 IS USM full frame RAW to Lightroom 4 then re-sized in trial version PS6 and for the first re sized to web. Still finding my way around so we will be looking for improvements.
Critique, Comments and Advice most welcomed and appreciated.
Looks ok to me Barry Whites look good.
one minor nit - the bird is a tad too far right in my opinion
Very minor- don't like the blurred bar across the bottom- but that's a personal thing. Others will love it
Love the gentle coulours, and a superb background. One of your best.
Cheers
JR
Thank you chaps, I selected this image as it is as is out of the camera full frame for critique, It was the only image with the beak open the fact that that the birds are constantly on the move I found added to the challenge. I must say I was very pleased with the result the only PP adjustment was the resizing to post. Such results are few for me.
love the seaside colours of this should sell it to holiday lets in Norfolk you would make a fortune. i think the position is fine, i like teh dead space it looks into and don't mind the OOF FG. Top effort in my book
Posted by Nick Mckeown on June 19, 2012 at 3:24 PM
Stunning image Barry. No nits from me.
Nick.
Posted by Andy Astbury on June 20, 2012 at 8:09 AM
Barry, this has to be one of the best images I've ever seen you post, and I am struggling to reconcile the quality of shot and processing with some of your other posts
Honestly Barry it looks so much better than your usual postings.
Just fix in your mind everything about the way this shot was presented in the field, the way you photographed it and the technique of processing and apply it all to the next set of shots you take.
I think one of the major mistakes you make is taking your shots from too far away and your subjects are usually too small in the frame.
This means that you tend to crop your images too much in order to increase the subjects proportions within the total image area, but you have very few pixels on the sensor which were covered by the subject, hence you get the distinctive lack of detail in your subjects.
Always aim to, for the most part, fill between 30% and 40% of the viewfinder with your subject at the shooting stage - easy with an 800mm on a 1.3x body Barry when most of use manage it with a 400/500mm on a full frame
I wish I'd seen this image before we spoke the other day mate - this is the file you should have sent me as it represents a much higher benchmark.
Thanks guy's, do you know the mist is just starting to clear. This image along with eight or nine more are much about the same standard. All of them are straight off of the CF card as is. With the exception of re-sizing in order to post that's all I have done to two of them. The others are RAW / Jpeg large size as shot.
Andy's nailed the simple problem I've been trying to compensate for the lack of subject size or re positioning the subject by meddling with the PP coupled with my lack of knowledge and as the result screwing up the image. Frustration has come to the fore in most cases the images should have been deleted.
I'll be applying a new format in future. Thanks for taking the time to sort me out.
Discussion
13 repliesCanon 1D3 on gimbal on a tripod and just to up the difficulty level from a boat.1/2000sec f/8.0 ISO 800 EF 800mm f/5.6 IS USM full frame RAW to Lightroom 4 then re-sized in trial version PS6 and for the first re sized to web. Still finding my way around so we will be looking for improvements.
Critique, Comments and Advice most welcomed and appreciated.
Thanks for looking.
one minor nit - the bird is a tad too far right in my opinion
Very minor- don't like the blurred bar across the bottom- but that's a personal thing. Others will love it
Love the gentle coulours, and a superb background. One of your best.
Cheers
JR
Keith.
Super BG and the blue looks great with the birds blue legs.
Cheers
Oscar
Matt
Phil.
Nick.
Honestly Barry it looks so much better than your usual postings.
Just fix in your mind everything about the way this shot was presented in the field, the way you photographed it and the technique of processing and apply it all to the next set of shots you take.
I think one of the major mistakes you make is taking your shots from too far away and your subjects are usually too small in the frame.
This means that you tend to crop your images too much in order to increase the subjects proportions within the total image area, but you have very few pixels on the sensor which were covered by the subject, hence you get the distinctive lack of detail in your subjects.
Always aim to, for the most part, fill between 30% and 40% of the viewfinder with your subject at the shooting stage - easy with an 800mm on a 1.3x body Barry when most of use manage it with a 400/500mm on a full frame
I wish I'd seen this image before we spoke the other day mate - this is the file you should have sent me as it represents a much higher benchmark.
Andy's nailed the simple problem I've been trying to compensate for the lack of subject size or re positioning the subject by meddling with the PP coupled with my lack of knowledge and as the result screwing up the image. Frustration has come to the fore in most cases the images should have been deleted.
I'll be applying a new format in future. Thanks for taking the time to sort me out.