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So my first time out with a 70-300
4761840482_f58d3f2136_z_d.jpg

http://http://www.flickr.com/photos/mountainpenguin/4761840482/sizes/l/in/photostream/
Apart from a crop its how it came off the camera.
How do I improve I can see that there are a few blurry bits but I cant tell if its camer shake or depth of field.
what post processing should go on ?

Thanks all
 
the little chap looks like is doing opera ! :D .. is he standing on one leg ? btw the pic itself is very good. hard to tell if it's too sharp from this size
 
forgive my ignorance.
How would it become too sharp ?
The image was taken with a d90 in raw downloaded in aperture and then uploaded to flickr.
Does aperture apply a default sharpening when it processes the raw ?
 
mountainpenguin said:
forgive my ignorance.
How would it become too sharp ?
The image was taken with a d90 in raw downloaded in aperture and then uploaded to flickr.
Does aperture apply a default sharpening when it processes the raw ?
Click to expand...

Not sure but there may be some in camera sharpening going on, have a check in the manual :)
 
mountainpenguin said:
forgive my ignorance.
How would it become too sharp ?
The image was taken with a d90 in raw downloaded in aperture and then uploaded to flickr.
Does aperture apply a default sharpening when it processes the raw ?
Click to expand...

Having looked on another monitor it looks ok now. Aperture probably applies some sharpening as default (I know Lightroom does and RAWs need some) I'm not sure what flikr does to images.

It's a lovely pose and the light on the male works well. I like the environment in both as well.

Apologies for the confusion
 
Had a look at the full size.

It's not an easy light, unfortunately the highlights on her back are blown, which is the biggest shame.

It looks a little soft at full size, could just need a touch of sharpening, however that will make the background noisier.

However, were you using a tripod? I noticed focal length was 300mm and exposure time 1/100s, if it was handheld that could be causing blurriness, I think your exposure time is mean to be equal to or higher than focal length, though can go lower if your lens has IS.

I notice your metering mode was matrix, which means exposure is calculated for the overall image - if you switched to centre or spot it would work exposure on the bird itself, it seems to help a little with bird shots! I think you do have to be more accurate with spot though, someone advised me centre was easier to begin with.


That asides, you have pretty good detail on most of the bird, background is lovely to set her off.

She looks well positioned to me, I'd perhaps play with cropping some of the right hand side off but I'm not sure if it'd actually improve it or not!

Lovely capture!
 
Won't repeat what others have said, my only comments is that of composition, they are too centrally positioned, first one needs a slight crop on the right and the second shot a bit off the left. Other than that I like them, and envious as I haven't seen these birds myself yet..
 
Thanks all.
I have just tried an alternate crop:
4768705849_b3f1a2ee6d_z_d.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mountainpenguin/4768705849/sizes/l/in/photostream/

Looking through some of the others I took that day I now think that
4761206779_0dae67c7b4_z_d.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mountainpenguin/4761206779/sizes/l/in/photostream/
Is probably better as there are no blown out bits.
Ill try changing the metering mode and have another go next time the sun is out.
Near me the stone chats are very easy to find. I am trying to get a picture of the buzzard but he/she keeps flying too high.
 
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