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A wonderful capture of this bird! Great colors and the expression is priceless,

"OH NO! I'm nailed!!!"

Terrific colors on the pheasant. I especially like the blurred foreground and background. Is that called selective focus?

 

This one cries out for a fish-eye lens. :))

 

Soon as it warms up a bit, I am going to have to go hunting for quail. I see they come to your feeders. I think you caught this pheasant in its natural habitat! You must be really good at being really quiet. Do you take along anything to feed them?

By creeping in the shadow! This is very beautiful bird Dave and your caoture has made real justice to it's colors. The composition is very efective for me to put the focus on the bird and the afternoon sun looks pretty good in the background. Was this a raw file, clip shadows around the neck?

 

Ceers.

I'm enclosing my camera settings. I keep my basic settings set to 0 or normal, the color saturation comes from an ISO 400 and underexposing some. This technique came from just testing different ways of exposing.

Comments welcome. Shot with ISO 400 and 2 stops underexposed, no manipulation or filters used.

Regards, Dave

Thanks for loading that information Dave. I like to use the -0.33 or even lower depending on the brightness of the sun. I find that is a one of the controls I like to play with, also. I am thinking about the higher ISO. I thought that the higher ISO (equivalent of faster film) adds more light and so the shutter speed would compensate by clicking faster. Right? I don't know the ratios but I am sure some one has calculated them. Interesting stuff, though.

 

I have thought that a smaller F stop number and larger aperature blurs the background more. Can you confirm that for me, or set me straight on it?

 

Yes, your correct about the aperture. Note the blurring of the tail. When and where blurring begins and ends is very dependant on the focal length of the lens also. I was utterly jolted when I took my first macro with a true macro lens and had it set at f/2.8 ~

^ISO increases the sensitivity of the sensor to light (amplifies light). I'm able to decrease significantly the noise in a photo by 1) underexposing and 2) don't shoot into shadows as I increase the ISO.

I will enclose an example that I shot indoors, no flash, lens was at 200mm with an f/2.8 setting and an ISO of 1600. Note the lack of noise, this was a test to see how true the colors would stay and they are right on. Also, I have not removed any noise or altered the photo other than sizing for download.

Regards, Dave

Your last comment is packed full of information that I need. I have been back to read several times. Thank you so much.

 

Man that ISO 1600 is clear. On a film camera I would have expected grain. I need to copy out these comments and keep them to refer to. Thank you so much.

 

Today I received my adaptor and filters from LensMate. I got a Hoya IR (58mm that I will be able to use on my 35mm or on my dSLR when I get it. So, I am kinda excited about trying this stuff just on my S3 IS.

 

There was a discussion on one of Mary Fran Loggans files where someone said the 30D had noise at 400. Hmmmmmmmmmmm, they should see this example, but I am too lazy to go find it, and link, right now.