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Nov 30, 2018 21:58:45   #
robertjerl Loc: Corona, California
 
More Experimenting with the Tamron 150-600 G2

All one color has problems of its own. And with birds that is esp true of all white or all black.

These crows were part of a murder that came in, cleaned out most of the peanuts and then left.

The first one is on my retaining wall at about 70-75 feet, in shade just to make the black feathers even more of a challenge. I used flash and even though the surroundings were over exposed the crow still came out black. I corrected most of the over exposure in PP.
The second was about 15 feet closer but otherwise things were the same.

#1 5DIV, Tamron 150-600 G2 @ 600, 1/200 @ f/8.0, ISO 800 with flash off tripod at 75', center point AF and partial center weighted exposure.
#2 all the same except distance about 60'


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Nov 30, 2018 22:59:43   #
kpmac Loc: Ragley, La
 
You are correct. All white and all black birds are very hard to do. Good job.

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Nov 30, 2018 23:31:31   #
robertjerl Loc: Corona, California
 
kpmac wrote:
You are correct. All white and all black birds are very hard to do. Good job.

Thanks very much.

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Dec 1, 2018 03:45:02   #
DOOK Loc: Maclean, Australia
 
Interesting shots, Jerry.

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Dec 1, 2018 06:41:35   #
CLF Loc: Raleigh, NC
 
robertjerl wrote:
More Experimenting with the Tamron 150-600 G2

All one color has problems of its own. And with birds that is esp true of all white or all black.

These crows were part of a murder that came in, cleaned out most of the peanuts and then left.

The first one is on my retaining wall at about 70-75 feet, in shade just to make the black feathers even more of a challenge. I used flash and even though the surroundings were over exposed the crow still came out black. I corrected most of the over exposure in PP.
The second was about 15 feet closer but otherwise things were the same.

#1 5DIV, Tamron 150-600 G2 @ 600, 1/200 @ f/8.0, ISO 800 with flash off tripod at 75', center point AF and partial center weighted exposure.
#2 all the same except distance about 60'
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Jerry, I agree with you as far as black and white being a challange to get the correct exposure and when you have both (think Chickadee) it even becomes harder. The photos are darn good and I wonder how the first one has so much noise.

Greg

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Dec 1, 2018 10:22:49   #
dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho
 
Well done.

Dennis

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Dec 1, 2018 14:51:25   #
robertjerl Loc: Corona, California
 
CLF wrote:
Jerry, I agree with you as far as black and white being a challange to get the correct exposure and when you have both (think Chickadee) it even becomes harder. The photos are darn good and I wonder how the first one has so much noise.

Greg


Thank you.
Combination of things, light etc and this crop is only a tad less than 7 1/2% (1243x1816 vs the full frame of 6720x4480) of the full frame plus the crow was a bit under exposed and I had to bring it up a lot to get the details of the feathers (where I could get them) to the degree I did. As stated I have found over exposing and bring it down gets better IQ with this lens so in future I will over expose by a stop or two.
Here is the OOC: I think most of the "noise" is just from being such a blow up - like the grain showing with film when an enlargement was extreme.


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Dec 1, 2018 14:52:39   #
robertjerl Loc: Corona, California
 
dennis2146 wrote:
Well done.

Dennis


Thanks

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Dec 1, 2018 16:46:17   #
Dixiegirl Loc: Alabama gulf coast
 
Beautiful shots, Jerry. Great exposure of the black, and you also brought out the subtle colors in the plumage.

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Dec 1, 2018 16:51:11   #
robertjerl Loc: Corona, California
 
Dixiegirl wrote:
Beautiful shots, Jerry. Great exposure of the black, and you also brought out the subtle colors in the plumage.


Thank you very much.

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Dec 1, 2018 17:33:51   #
Chuckwal Loc: Boynton Beach Florida
 
super set he looks like he knows whats going down
chuck

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Dec 1, 2018 18:16:38   #
Muddyvalley Loc: McMinnville, Oregon
 
Nice shots Jerry. A Black bird is as hard to do as a white one for me no matter how I add or subtract on the preset, especially if cropped.

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Dec 1, 2018 21:44:01   #
robertjerl Loc: Corona, California
 
Chuckwal wrote:
super set he looks like he knows whats going down
chuck


Thanks, I am sure they were watching me put out the peanuts. Next door has a tree twice the height of my two story house where they like to perch when passing through the neighborhood.

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Dec 1, 2018 21:45:40   #
robertjerl Loc: Corona, California
 
Muddyvalley wrote:
Nice shots Jerry. A Black bird is as hard to do as a white one for me no matter how I add or subtract on the preset, especially if cropped.


Thanks Just about anything all one color is hard to get a feeling of texture and shapes.

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Dec 2, 2018 09:11:19   #
lensbaby007 Loc: Ohio
 
Great job on these, lots of feather detail.

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