Hi Ken, Yeah, he's really nearly four now, but he has an eagle eye (pun intended). We went to the dump the other day and he spied a toy truck sitting on a concrete pillar from about 40 feet away. He was in his car seat and there was another car between us and the truck. I don't know how he does it.
Anyway, I tried messing with the black point (in Aperture) and initially it didn't make a whole lot of difference. I'm going to adjust it again prior to printing and I'll see if I can improve upon it. Does it appear overly dark on your screen? Was wondering if I should adjust the exposure. -Brendan ----- Original Message ---- > From: Ken Waller <[email protected]> > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Sent: Thu, February 17, 2011 10:10:18 PM > Subject: Re: PESO - Red Shouldered Hawk > > Not a bad capture at all. A little unsharp mask, and setting of white & dark >point will improve it further. > > I'm impressed that a three year old would even call it an owl! > > Kenneth Waller > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brendan MacRae" ><[email protected]> > Subject: PESO - Red Shouldered Hawk > > > So today I'm having lunch with my 3 year old when he starts pointing out the > widow and saying, "Daddy, there's an owl! An owl!" I asked him where he was > looking and there just over a neighbors' fence was a raptor in a tree not 25 > feet from where we were sitting. I asked him to keep still and I slowly got up > and went to fetch the 400mm. Well, it was in the garage, and it's 30 degrees >out > and snowing. No matter. > > > I get the lens inside and realize that the temperature difference will fog the > lens so after getting it mounted on the tripod I go fetch a hair dryer and >from > about 2 feet away on the low setting I defog the lens ....gently. Finally I >can > line up the shot. > > Unfortunately, I have to shoot through glass but I'll take it. You almost >never > get to get this close to these birds. Not the sharpest image ever, but again, > I'll take it. > > http://www.primelensphoto.com/hawk/index.html > > -Brendan > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow >the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
