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.
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