nhut-nguyen 0 Posted June 21, 2009 Must have been a thrilling experience to witness something like this, I ike the eye contact this osprey gives you, also how the bird is holding the fish and its formidable talons really add more impact to this image. The crop is well balanced. On the technical side, the image is underexposed, the black details are missing and the white details are muddy. Try to expose the bird only next time. If you can come back to this spot, I'm sure you'll get more simiar shots like this. Ospreys tend to have favorite eating perchs where they come back everytime they catch a fish. Good luck next time, and best regards! Link to comment
steveshinn 0 Posted June 22, 2009 Very nice shot and worth a bit of messing around. As mentioned above, there are some things that could be better but sometimes shots like this surprise us. SO.... did you shoot this in RAW? If so there are a lot of things that a few minutes in PS would fix easily. In the RAW window try adjusting the exposure and some of the other parameters. The image is nicely isolated on a plain background so (after you open it in PS) selecting just it (see the side bar and the "Quick Selection Tool") you can easily make further adjustments to image. Then... pick "Select Inverse" and give the background a more pleasing color then burn the top parts so that it leaves the upper portion more dark than the bottom.... my 2 cents. Link to comment
MadoGuenette 0 Posted June 22, 2009 Thank you for your constructive comment. I always shoot in RAW. I have more opportunities in PP. I will try what you say. I was lucky to have this one. The ospreys stay more close to the lake. I am a little bit upper. I was really happy about this photo because it was sharp although it was a grey day. The sky is hard to deal with. Thank you. Mado Thank you Sinh Nhut Nguyen for your comment also. Link to comment
nhut-nguyen 0 Posted June 22, 2009 I said the image was "overexposed", I really meant "underexposed". Sometimes in a cloudy day the sky is much brighter than the subject itself and this fools the camera's metering. Thinking the entire image is too bright, the meter will underexpose it and leave your dark subject even darker. So what you need to do next time is to "add" more light to the image, this can be done either by opening the aperture larger, or decrease the shutter speed. If you're shooting in AV mode just dial up the exposure compensation. Check out the image below, similar situation and I exposed the bird. Steve has some great tips too. Link to comment
steve_mareno1 18 Posted June 6, 2016 Nice shot. We have lots of these birds in Florida, and right now they're doing their nesting thing. Lots of loud cries from the babies, which are huge, as are the nests. The mom and pop like to go out and "fish", then fly around and show off their catch before coming back to the nests. Link to comment
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