White-throated Kingfisher

[Prashant Jois]

Bandipura National Park
16-10-2011 @ 8:02 am
Aperture priority
TV 1/400
Av 9
Evaluative metering
EC +1/3
ISO 800
Fl 400mm

Heavy crop as close as 70% was taken out from the original frame. I can see lot of noise a the lower part of the bird (in the shadow area). I would not remove it in PP through neat image. I guess I should have over exposed another stop while taking this image to avoid it?

[Praveen Siddannavar]

I remember shooting this, ISO 400 with f7.1 would have done the job. The catch-light is nice and details have come out well
tfs

[Sabyasachi Patra]

ISO 800 and crop will lead to noise. When you are cropping a lot ie. when the subject is far away, the depth of field automatically increases. So you can use a wider aperture here. That would have allowed you to use one stop lower ISO as well. Did you pull up the shadows during processing? Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Prashant Jois]

Praveen and Sabyasachiji,

Thanks a lot for your inputs. Yes I did recover the shadows a bit (say 15%) to get the details of underbelly parts and that's where the noise showed up.