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My Crappy Peacock Picture
http://www.pbase.com/image/30601993/
Unsharpened, unedited, etc. etc. Not a great shot, it was hand-held at a borderline shutter speed and I would have needed the extra reach of a 200 or 300 mm lens to frame it correctly. I'm not going to comment on it further other than I would not print this photo. Off to canoe! |
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My Crappy Peacock Picture
Brian C. Baird wrote:
http://www.pbase.com/image/30601993/ Unsharpened, unedited, etc. etc. Pretty nice! -- QUIPd 1.02: (209 of 679) - "You didn't slay the dragon?!" - "It's on my to-do list, now come on!" - -- Shrek. ##5309 # Linux 2.4.21-0.13mdk i686 |
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Brian C. Baird wrote: http://www.pbase.com/image/30601993/ Unsharpened, unedited, etc. etc. Not a great shot, it was hand-held at a borderline shutter speed and I would have needed the extra reach of a 200 or 300 mm lens to frame it correctly. I'm not going to comment on it further other than I would not print this photo. Off to canoe! Well, I am still puzzling how with apparent sunshine in Bronx Zoo, the exposure could possibly be 1/180 at f6.7 at ISO 400 in June - some parts of the image are actually in sun - when the SD10 shot I posted was 1/200 at f7.1 on a dull April day in the UK (overcast). The colour difference is obvious, but the sensitivity difference is not. Parts of your shot are in sun, and are maybe no more than 1 stop over, while you used -1 on exposure according to the EXIF data. Now according to my old extinction exposure meter and my Johnson's Exposure Calculator, if you have sunshine in June in a temperature latitude and you are using ISO 400, even a subject in open shade is only two stops below 1/500 at f11, which should be 1/250 at f8. You seem to be a full f-stop over this even after dialing in -1 over-ride. That seems to imply that the camera was really giving an exposure suitable for a 100 ISO film. What is happening here? How can you possibly have 1/180th at f6.7 with areas of sunlit detail in the image at ISO 400? Seems to me the metering is very peculiar indeed, since a manual setting would have been 1/250th at f8 and have resulted in overexposed grass (lit) areas and correcty peacock (in shade). Not criticising the final result - just extremely puzzled by the EXIF data, and the conditions prevailing when the shot was taken. David |
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Brian - it takes a sense of commitment & purpose to post a link like this.
I am grateful. Would I be correct in saying both images have qualitative differences? In the same magazine (see an earlier post under a different thread) the featured pro says that it is not technical skill that gives the edge but some aesthetic quality & consistency (I am paraphrasing) that convinces client to part with readies and book a photographer. Can I download this image to hard drive and take a look at it later? Ta das B "Brian C. Baird" wrote in message .. . http://www.pbase.com/image/30601993/ Unsharpened, unedited, etc. etc. Not a great shot, it was hand-held at a borderline shutter speed and I would have needed the extra reach of a 200 or 300 mm lens to frame it correctly. I'm not going to comment on it further other than I would not print this photo. Off to canoe! |
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