wildlife Brown Pelican 4 - Click image to view larger!

I'm in awe, yet again, of the quality of that lens of yours. Notwithstanding your obvious competence and skills..... the consistant clarity you achieve at 500mm really fires me up.

This image is outstanding.......... I don't need the larger view to appreciate the quality of capture. Appreciating the need for cropping here, I enjoy the lack of background "noise" that I often get in my own images.

Well done............. just pop it in my favourites.

Regards

Thanks Grayham! I appreciate the kind words very much ... :-) - I don't remember if I had run noise reduction on the background or not but one of the trick  is to buy Noise Ninja or  Neat Image as a Plug-In to Photoshop and that way you can select just the background and run noise reduction on the background to clean the noise. It does not always work but in general it does. The 1D Mark III has a 1.3 cropped sensor with 10 meg pixel and because of that it does not have much noise ( 7D with 1.6 cropped sensor has much more noise) and I always try to stay below ISO 500 even though at time I can go up to ISO 1250 with no trouble. The key to good image (to me) is good lighting and that means the light comes from your back when you shoot. Also, it means early morning or late afternoon light, this one was shot around 9AM in a bit of a cloudy day. Generally, in a clear day, 8AM is too late already ( too harsh). I am getting older and hand holding is getting tough, I think I will have to cough up some money to get the new 500mm F4 which shave about 1.5 lbs from my current lens weight:-)

Thanks Phil! Good to hear from you.

Tm J,

Nice crisp details in this brown fellow. So much different than the American White Pelicans we've been shooting lately!

Regards,

Jim j.