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'
You are correct. All white and all black birds are very hard to do. Good job.
DOOK
Loc: Maclean, Australia
Interesting shots, Jerry.
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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
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.
Beautiful shots, Jerry. Great exposure of the black, and you also brought out the subtle colors in the plumage.
super set he looks like he knows whats going down
chuck
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.
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.
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.
Great job on these, lots of feather detail.
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