Awesome shot, Mitesh! Love the high-key look and pastel colors, and the OOF rendering is just beautiful. Looks like it was shot with a Canon 600 or 800. Your composition and low profile/angle worked really well.
You should post this image on the Nature forum.
mitesh wrote:
Here's a shot of a killdeer chick from today.
I am somewhat embarrassed to admit that my photographer buddies call me a Nancy-boy when I downsized from the 5D2 to the original E-M5, and I've had to live with that name ever since! But sticks and stones ....
mitesh wrote:
Maybe we should provide Anurag with some alternative adjectives to consider using instead of "old". I'll start by suggesting "sensible" and "reasonable".
bobbytan wrote:
Awesome shot, Mitesh! Love the high-key look and pastel colors, and the OOF rendering is just beautiful. Looks like it was shot with a Canon 600 or 800. Your composition and low profile/angle worked really well.
You should post this image on the Nature forum.
Thanks, Bobby! It may not show on the web-sized image, but the focus is slightly off from the eye. The beak is in sharper focus than the eye. Also, the bird is a bit too far to the right in the frame, IMO. I was actually lying prone on a grassy median between the sidewalk and the parking lot. I got more than a few funny looks my way .
Here's one with the chicks taking shelter from the wind under their mother.
I was looking at the image from my iPhone so I couldn't really tell. Eye focus might work in some instances.
mitesh wrote:
Thanks, Bobby! It may not show on the web-sized image, but the focus is slightly off from the eye. The beak is in sharper focus than the eye. Also, the bird is a bit too far to the right in the frame, IMO. I was actually lying prone on a grassy median between the sidewalk and the parking lot. I got more than a few funny looks my way .
Here's one with the chicks taking shelter from the wind under their mother.
Sorry I can't help with troubleshooting that second image, K-H, but I have to say, on my mobile phone screen, these look quite sharp for cropped files from a zoom lens with a 2x teleconverter! Good technique from the operator, as well .
k-h.a.w wrote:
Thanks Mitesh and MM. No flash.
I don't refer to the wing in the front.
Only to the faint wing in the back, visible on both sides of the Hummer.
Crazy rain these days. I live in a rain forest and I'm used to rain but the last 3 days it truly has been monsoon level. My back yard is suddenly a six inch lake
Regardless I took the M1ii with me on the way to feed the hawks for this Climatis, Poof let me borrow her 60mm macro.
Thanks Mitesh.
Morris had mentioned on a previous BB shot wanting a better perch.
This the first out of the M1ii with the adapted 400DOii via MBs adapter.
MedicineMan404 wrote:
Thanks Mitesh.
Morris had mentioned on a previous BB shot wanting a better perch.
This the first out of the M1ii with the adapted 400DOii via MBs adapter.
Only to the faint wing in the back, visible on both sides of the Hummer.
No, IMHO not a fast enough shutter speed to get only a single image of the wings. I believe you are seeing the end positions of a complete wing movement (the wings come to a very short dead stop at each end of the range of movement).
To test this, try shooting on both the mechanical shutter at 1,000th/sec, and electronic shutter at same speed—if rolling shutter is distorting the image, should be visible.
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