These were largely unusable out of camera due to an operator error on the SS/ISO setting. Normally I use Topaz Denoise Severe setting to recover something like this but that produced images that looked "blotchy". Before trashing them I gave DxO a shot and the results were OK. Not an endorsement or criticism of either tool
Thank you very much, Alex! I noticed on your post above that you almost thrashed some files due to incorrect SS or ISO. I looked at both and at 1/1250sec and ISO 1600, they looked just fine to me. I would be happy to get both parameters on the trip to Ecuador. There were cases where I had to put with ISO 12800 to get the shutter speed high enough to freeze some kind of movement. And yes, I am using Denoise AI quite a bit for my files.
AGeoJO wrote:
Thank you very much, Alex! I noticed on your post above that you almost thrashed some files due to incorrect SS or ISO. I looked at both and at 1/1250sec and ISO 1600, they looked just fine to me. I would be happy to get both parameters on the trip to Ecuador. There were cases where I had to put with ISO 12800 to get the shutter speed high enough to freeze some kind of movement. And yes, I am using Denoise AI quite a bit for my files.
They were all a full 3+ stops underexposed and 1/1250 is not where I like to be for BIF. The 4 second flight sequence of about 100 images had so many where the eye just wasn't sharp enough for me. Plus, earlier that day I have some really great shots at ISO 500 and 1/4000 so I was willing to just trash these based on that alone. I am getting to the point where I am spending 4-5 hours of editing for every 1 hour shot in the field and it's exhausting so I am always looking to cut down
Made my second trip of the season to eastern Washington to shoot the Bluebirds yesterday. They're in the process of nest building so the action was somewhat limited but did manage a few perched shots. These are Mountain Bluebirds male and female.
It's been raining here for the last 3 days. Every stream and river is over the banks... these are from last Sunday. More feeding behavior
Edit: normally I would be a little lower for a shot like this but after experimenting with angles and height I needed to be about 6" above the water line in order to get the midge in the plane of focus
