Semi dark background is likely to blame for clipped white. I've always had a flare for the obvious. :-)
J Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 15, 2016, at 9:39 AM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > > FWIW, I try to keep about 1/3 stop UNDER-exposure dialed in just because > digital seems to me so close to shooting transparency film. And it's > something that can easily be fixed in post if the image turns out to be > too dark. > > If it were my image, I'd crop in quite a bit. There's not really enough > of the bird in the fore-ground reflection, so it doesn't add to the > image. And I'd probably take the time to clone out that fence. > > It's a beautiful bird though. > >> On 9/14/2016 5:54 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: >> Well I was just driving along minding my own business when I saw this >> guy out of the corner of my eye, in a pond not 20 feet from the road. >> Of course when I got out to the car to take his portrait, he immediately >> flew to the opposite side of the pond, but a little patience was >> rewarded when he caught a fat fish. >> >> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20successful.html >> >> >> Now the bad part, I shot half the images at really high ISO with an >> extra stop of exposure dialed in because I forgot to reset everything >> after using the camera yesterday. Even after correcting the ISO issue, >> I didn't notice the extra stop of exposure until after I finished >> shooting, so I blew out all the whites, (shooting a white bird, go >> figure). Finally in spite the fact that not only did the bird appear to >> be in focus in the viewfinder, and the center spot AF gave a nice green >> glow to the hexagonal focus confirmation spot anytime I placed it >> squarely on bird, the best focus is still about a foot in front of the >> bird. How the heck are you supposed to correct for front focus in a >> manual focus lens anyway... >> >> So I processed the image with a faux Kodachrome 200 look using DXO >> Filmpack, because heck, with Kodachrome almost no one managed to not >> blow out the whites. >> >> Equipment: Pentax K5II w/smc Pentax A*300mm f4.0. >> >> As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored. > > -- > Science - Questions we may never find answers for. > Religion - Answers we must never question. > > -- > 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.
