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Sagar Vadodaria
02-11-2011, 04:21 PM
Shot somewhere in Town near by GIR (Gujarat),

NIKON D90 , 70-300mm VR, Handheld
F5.6, 1/320, ISO 200, 300mm
Sabyasachi Patra
02-11-2011, 09:14 PM
One needs to be more careful while clicking white coloured birds as the whites can get overexposed easily. How much of a crop is this? A loose crop would have strengthened the image. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi
Sagar Vadodaria
03-11-2011, 08:28 AM
yes, it was a fairly tight crop, this is the real image without any crop. i agree it is over exposed, especially right above the eye, thanks for pointing it out..


One needs to be more careful while clicking white coloured birds as the whites can get overexposed easily. How much of a crop is this? A loose crop would have strengthened the image. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi
Mrudul Godbole
03-11-2011, 10:27 AM
The perch and the eye contact is nice. Seems the light was a bit harsh. Giving a slight -ve exposure compensation would have been good. In the repost, you could have placed the bird more to the right of the frame then the present centered composition. Thanks for sharing.
Sagar Vadodaria
03-11-2011, 12:04 PM
It was really a harsh afternoon, and even the Exposure Compensation is -1.0 for this image, you mean to say, it should be even less than that?


The perch and the eye contact is nice. Seems the light was a bit harsh. Giving a slight -ve exposure compensation would have been good. In the repost, you could have placed the bird more to the right of the frame then the present centered composition. Thanks for sharing.
Sabyasachi Patra
03-11-2011, 04:33 PM
The autofocus of the cameras depend on contrast. So you find the perch in focus. In high contrast lighting conditions, it is better to try manual focusing. Especially since the bird is stationary, manual focus would have been easy and you would have got the head in focus.

You can check the histogram and see that the whites are not overexposed.

Subject at the middle of the frame makes the image static. So an offcentre composition is preferable.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi
Sagar Vadodaria
03-11-2011, 05:22 PM
Never tried using Manual Focus so far, will surely try this out. Thanks a lot ..


The autofocus of the cameras depend on contrast. So you find the perch in focus. In high contrast lighting conditions, it is better to try manual focusing. Especially since the bird is stationary, manual focus would have been easy and you would have got the head in focus.

You can check the histogram and see that the whites are not overexposed.

Subject at the middle of the frame makes the image static. So an offcentre composition is preferable.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi