Sanat Kumar Karmakar
November 2024 - Black Tailed Goodwit
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About the Image(s)
Date of exposure: 09-01-2023, 14:06 hrs. Subject: BLACK-TAILED GOODWIT.
CAMERA: Nikon D7200 with Tamron 100-400mm lens Lens: f-stop f/13. Focal Length: 400 mm, exposure time 1/2000 sec, 1796 ISO, pattern metering, Manual mode. LOCATION: More than 230 species of birds live in Mangalajodi, Odisha, India. It is also one of the largest wintering grounds in Asia. EDITING: I used PS CS 2024 to edit the frame, by a desktop computer. I used adobe camera raw 16.4 filters to enhance clarity, shadow details, brightness and exposure. I also used Topaz software to reduce digital noise and to sharpen details.
5 comments posted
Faithful capture, and nice and sharp. Perhaps crop down from the top somewhat. Because of the sun angle the region of the bird's head is in shadow, reducing the detail. Have you tried doing more action shots, capturing your subjects in flight or fighting with other birds for mates or territory? Posted: 11/11/2024 16:50:00
Sunat, You present a nice documentary image of the Black Tailed Godwit. Your image shows the habitat of the bird nicely and the bird is well exposed and sharp. Perhaps a small amount of additional contrast might make the bird stand out from the background. My style is to have the background out of focus as in the sample I have attached. This is achieved by using a wide open f stop such as 5.6 or lower and getting down low so that the lens does not face down into the grass behind the bird. If your intention is to show the habitat of the bird, you did a great job and of course it is your choice how you want it to look, well done. Bruce Posted: 11/12/2024 06:03:18
Interesting point, Bruce. It reminds me of some trips where a friend of mine would sit, or even lay, in shallow water to achieve the affect you mention. One other technique can be used in this situation -- but I'm not sure what Sanat's restriction might be. That would be to back up and use a strong tele lens where the focal plane would be at the bird but then the background would be blurred, which is what you've done with the owl. Hard to do that with a 50mm lens. Posted: 11/12/2024 16:27:21
Nice capture of the bird in it's environment and good Jobe of processing too. As mentioned it is great if one can do that and have a feeling of "action" too. However it does requires lots of patience and stamina to hold focus with a big lens to capture that moment. Posted: 11/18/2024 17:32:58
Sunat, you have presented a very nice image of the Goodwit in its environment. How much one crops is always a personal choice - I would crop a little from the top so that the roof of your image is mostly the green foliage and fractionally from the right to stop it being too central.
It's interesting you chose to use F13: I'm sure a much smaller aperture would have had the dept of field at 400mm to retail all the bird in focus.
Nice image Sunat. Posted: 11/20/2024 17:15:56
It's interesting you chose to use F13: I'm sure a much smaller aperture would have had the dept of field at 400mm to retail all the bird in focus.
Nice image Sunat. Posted: 11/20/2024 17:15:56