Randy Dykstra
About the Image(s)
I wanted to show you a shot that I took yesterday, a day after I received my new Nikkor 800mm Z PF lens.
So I basically wanted to spend a lot of time, also learning my Z9 more, especially since they just upgraded the firmware.
I have a rookery that is within a half hour of my home and I spent about an hour shooting birds in flight.
And well, with the 800mm lens, and learning the new AF areas of the Z9 and using animal detection, I really came home
with about a 85-90% hit rate (if not more) (out of around 900 images). By far, more than I ever have done before. Not that I'm a slouch bird photographer, but WOW!
Like I said I was also experimenting with different area settings, and most of the time used animal detection and well check out the eye of this guy, with a difficult focusing scene of a branch hanging in the beak. This bird was,... I'm guessing 50 yards out...
I think this is a Great Egret, but not sure about the green along the eyeline.
BTW This shot was not sharpened other than my default setting, nor noise reduced. I hit auto in LR and added a little shadow brightening and pushed a little "sat" and a vignette.
This round’s discussion is now closed!
9 comments posted
Before I looked at Isaac's suggestions, I felt your bird is too central and I thus agree the impact becomes greater by cropping more from the right and probably from the bottom too.
The orange and green really makes this striking!   Posted: 05/12/2022 11:40:16
  Posted: 05/12/2022 12:20:39