Having been away from the forum for 3 years I decided it was time to stop lurking and show what I have been up to.
This little lady was photographed coming to the kitchen door of a west coast B and B. The image taken laying on the Kitchen floor whilst filling the poor ladies house with midges.
As you will see from the numbers their was almost no light so lots of wasted images as the model kept moving, I will be back to take some more images when I can
This is a shot I hold dear to my heart! Having Martens coming nightly on our drive I would dearly love to shoot them. My neighbor however would dearly love to SHOOT them as thier cars tend to get chewed on alot. so i cannot leave food out and get them into a nightly spot, and by nightly I mean 2am or so. So this shot would be dearly welcome in my portfolio. well done on getting it however dark it was.
Posted by David Sewell on July 16, 2012 at 7:46 AM
Welcome back, Ian. I would have been very pleased to have taken this shot, and appreciate why it is cropped the way it is. I do feel that the head could take a further pass or two of USM.
Certainly I would agree with David that the subject needs some selective sharpening. In addition when you look at it in PS I would look at reducing the Yellow and even the Blue, just seems to cool things down and save as an sRGB file. If you have a fraction more on the RHS that would also help too. What is the 'emerald green' wire/rope (?) at the foot of the image.
TFS
Steve
BTW I think you meant 1/80th not 1/10th, just looked at the Exif.
Posted by Nick Mckeown on July 16, 2012 at 3:04 PM
Lovely shot Ian and totally agree with the selective USM comments. Where abouts on the west coast were you?
Had plenty of practice at low light stuff on the badgers Ian, so understand completely how hard nailing a shot like this is. Never seen one in the wild myself but hope to one day.
Wonderful moment, slight not mentioned ref sharpening. You captured him really well here saying how tight for room/space you were. At those slow shutter speed anything you can place your camera on will help just bump the speed up. Hope you get more chances with this beautiful animal
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9 repliesHaving been away from the forum for 3 years I decided it was time to stop lurking and show what I have been up to.
This little lady was photographed coming to the kitchen door of a west coast B and B. The image taken laying on the Kitchen floor whilst filling the poor ladies house with midges.
As you will see from the numbers their was almost no light so lots of wasted images as the model kept moving, I will be back to take some more images when I can
Ian
380mm 1/10th f5.6 ISO2000 10%crop to remove tyre
David
Certainly I would agree with David that the subject needs some selective sharpening. In addition when you look at it in PS I would look at reducing the Yellow and even the Blue, just seems to cool things down and save as an sRGB file. If you have a fraction more on the RHS that would also help too. What is the 'emerald green' wire/rope (?) at the foot of the image.
TFS
Steve
BTW I think you meant 1/80th not 1/10th, just looked at the Exif.
Nick.
David, Will do some more sharpening on the face. Looks starper in Lightroom than on the web for some reason.
Steve, I only use lightroom so should I drop the Hue, sturation, Luminecence or All? Also i just noticed the twine
Nick Seen on Ardamurchan
Thanks again
Ian