Young raptor, are my "blinkies" not working?
Jun 29, 2019 11:39:21 #
A couple of young hawks were prowling the neighborhood this morning. Not as shy as the parents, even though the screeching let me know that they were around.
The lighting was really difficult, but I had time to try several combinations of ISO, shutter, and aperture. As I look at my results, the chest feathers seem to be overexposed as there is not much detail in them. When I look at the same images thru the back of the camera, there is NEVER any "blinkies" on the bird, but often the background has overexposed "blinkies" showing.
Does my D7500 just not have enough IQ to capture the chest feathers clearly, or do any of you have any suggestions as to different settings to help capture this?
Thank you for your help and suggestions.
The lighting was really difficult, but I had time to try several combinations of ISO, shutter, and aperture. As I look at my results, the chest feathers seem to be overexposed as there is not much detail in them. When I look at the same images thru the back of the camera, there is NEVER any "blinkies" on the bird, but often the background has overexposed "blinkies" showing.
Does my D7500 just not have enough IQ to capture the chest feathers clearly, or do any of you have any suggestions as to different settings to help capture this?
Thank you for your help and suggestions.
Jun 29, 2019 11:41:41 #
Jun 29, 2019 11:43:12 #
Great shots! I wouldn't obsess about chest feathers and blinkies, you've taken some amazing shots of these hawks
Jun 29, 2019 11:46:07 #
Jun 29, 2019 11:46:37 #
dhroberts
Loc: Boston, MA, USA
Those are really nice images. I see nothing to change in your technique. Sometimes to get the correct exposure on the subject the background (over which you may have no control) will inevitably be blown out.
The lack of details in the chest feathers may simply be a matter of insufficient depth of field. After all, you focus on the nearest eye not the chest.
The lack of details in the chest feathers may simply be a matter of insufficient depth of field. After all, you focus on the nearest eye not the chest.
Jun 29, 2019 11:49:18 #
It's funny, they do look oddly soft but everything around them is sharp. At first I thought you might have a lens problem but the feathers looks soft in all images at different points. This is definitely not an exposure issue. Could the feathers just be soft like down feathers on a baby bird?
Jun 29, 2019 11:49:58 #
The problems I see are noise/ISO and PP related. Consider using support to lower ISO. Get help for PP.
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Jun 29, 2019 11:50:19 #
Don't find the chest feathers bothersome, excellent shots all four. As a minor nitpick, posting as a series, the first two look like different WB than the last two which I prefer.
Jun 29, 2019 12:00:49 #
I'm in complete agreement with Larry's observation. An exposure based on 1/2500 and ISO-5000 for this static subject is highly suspect. Your f/5.6 is also challenging for a depth of field to cover both the eye and chest. Compare the missing details here to the wonderful final image at ISO-900 (?). The colors and exposure are very nice for the first image, just that the details are missing when viewed at 100%.
Jun 29, 2019 12:16:05 #
Jun 29, 2019 12:21:15 #
Jun 29, 2019 12:41:41 #
Great comments all. Thank you. I ended up having much more time that I originally figured I would. When I arrived in the area, I was hoping to get shots of the subject flying, so as I approached, I had the settings set at a higher shutter speed. As I found that the subject was not as skittish as I had planned, I was able to not only walk around the subject (from a distance) to "choose" the best background I could, I was also able to adjust various shutter speeds, aperture, and ISO settings to see what happened. I did not get a single image from about 150 that had the breast feathers detailed. (of the 150, I would say that about 125 were acceptable for focus and exposure (relatively speaking) and I only posted a few to show variety.
Thanks to all
Thanks to all
Jun 29, 2019 15:21:24 #
swartfort wrote:
A couple of young hawks were prowling the neighbor... (show quote)
The "Blinkies only show areas that are clipped, obviously, the image clearly shows some detail in the feathers, so yeah, there shouldn't be any blinkies in that area!
Jun 29, 2019 16:07:43 #
Jun 30, 2019 05:35:13 #
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