| camera | NIKON D300 |
| exposure mode | full manual |
| shutterspeed | 1/125s |
| aperture | f/5.0 |
| sensitivity | ISO800 |
| focal length | 95.0mm |
| resolution | 987x700 pixels |
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I tried my hand at a little birding earlier this year. I must admit that its much harder than it looks. I'm sure i'll get where I want to be though :) Comments and critique welcome as always
comments (15)
Lovely shot. Very sharp and well composed.
Great photo i always try to get good focus on the eye and you have
This is a great shot, very well composed, great colours, I tried some bird-shooting, only with my camera though, the problem I have: THEY never sit still!!!!
Stan: LOL. No they don't do they?
I'd say you have this spot on Stan, you seem to have been fairly close?
Looks pretty good to me Stan. Perhaps a slight loss of detail in the white but that could just be the limitations of the monitor. I think I'm going to cheat and take pictures of stuffed ones!
Stan: Haha! Now that would be cheating!
Cool stuff....must had been a nice day too.
Lovely capture as always, maybe oneday we need to come and get some tutorials on how to motivate oneself in the art of taking pics like these
Stan: Sure, now about those fashion photography lessons....
It looks "textbook" to me, Stan. Well done.
Stunning shot
Composition, DOF and sharpness are spot on as far as I am concerned. I'd run noise reduction on the background and take a bit of magenta out, but those are very minor nitpicks.
Stan: I should have run a round of light noise reduction after the sharpening. I'm still getting a hang of what my images will look like after the upload and sharpening by SC.
awesome colors!! Bird and background give it a nice composition. I think for me as long the eye is sharp the rest is not so important...well done!!
nice and sharp!
Great picture - not much to improve. If i get hypercritical - the white on the bird's back is losing its detail. This may be due to a camera setting using sRGB. I have changed my camera's colour space to AdobeRGB which provides a great colour range. I found that it specifically helps with red, white, yellow and black.
Stan: The detail loss is probably due to a combination of sloppy PP, noise reduction in post and the conversion since I shoot in RAW and the histogram is perfectly centered. In the rare cases where I shoot JPEG, my camera's colour space is also set to ARGB.
Hypercriticality is welcome here. Thanks for commenting
now this is some wicked shii...shot...yeah wicked shot...i meant to say shot...
Stan: LOL
shew...louis the hypercritical
Stan: The D300 rocks but to be fair I was within twenty feet of the bird. Also the shot is fairly heavily cropped.
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