Thanks Christian. You are the resident bird expert, so I appreciate your input very much. I agree that a crop eliminating the white would be most pleasing. I can certainly do that for a web image. Perhaps even for a small print. I now have a dozen or so birds that were all shot at this nature center. They want me to put together a small show for their learning center, so I'm probably going to print them all up. When posting on the web, I generally don't crop to a size that's useless for printing. I'll have to look at that.
I have become a firm believer in handheld bird photography. Too many misses with a tripod. At 1/750th or faster and with flash fill, handheld works out rather well. Probably not good enough for serious bird work, but good enough for my personal entertainment:-) I have done a few off the tripod, and I'll probably do some more, but I find it very limiting. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This never made my mail. My apologies if it's a duplicate for others. > > > > Another bird from Sunday's walk. Some kind of finch I would guess. This > > is more of a crop -- about half of the frame. So there's more visible > > noise. But I still like it. *istD A400/5.6, 5/6 @ 1/750. ISO 800, fill > > flash from the Sigma Super with the Kirk Flash Xtender. Handheld of > > course. > > Paul > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4194560&size=lg > > > > > > Hi Paul, I think it is a winter-plumage goldfinch. > > to me the noise is far less distracting than the huge blob of white on > the left. I know it's already cropped, but a more vertical crop, > eliminating the white would make it look better to me. > > That's pretty freakin good for hand held! :-) > > -- > > Christian > http://photography.skofteland.net >
