Surrounding elements will go dark fairly quickly, I suspect, but in this scene, I feel the Egret comes first. Touchy exposure. Beauty of shooting RAW.
Jack --- Bruce Dayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's the beauty of raw. Just looked at the raw image and there is > detail to be had in the feathers. The real trick here is that this > is > a white bird standing in the sun. A marshmallow has detail too, but > the scene has a remarkably wide latitude. Not perfect conditions > here > in sunny California - even though this is shot around 7am in the > morning. Bringing the bird down very far could make him look > somewhat > gray and shabby. He is a bright, white bird in a sunny environment. > > When I get a minute, along with cropping position, I shall see about > bringing down the white just a bit. > > -- > Bruce > > > Saturday, July 1, 2006, 10:38:22 AM, you wrote: > > JD> Just picked up on this thread. Feathers look somewhat blown out > and > JD> missing detail. Good example of a spot metering situation. > JD> Like the contrast with the greenery, but the array of plant > "stubs" > JD> protruding from the water detract. > > JD> Jack > > JD> --- Joseph Tainter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> http://www.daytonphoto.com/PAW/bkd_3173a.htm > >> > >> Nice, Bruce. > >> > >> Did you think of giving some exposure compensation? I would have > >> liked > >> to see more detail in the feathers. > >> > >> The areas in and out of focus make this photo for me. > >> > >> Joe > >> > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> [email protected] > >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> > > > JD> __________________________________________________ > JD> Do You Yahoo!? > JD> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > JD> http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
