Albatross
One of the problems with wildlife photography is getting close enough to the subject to get a good tight photograph. Most animals are difficult to find and when you do they are so skittish of humans that you can’t get close enough. The closest most people get to these creatures are the scavengers and badgers of the animals world. However there are still a few, a very few, places in the world where nature has not learned to fear man, such as the Galapagos Islands. There you have to be careful that you don’t accidentally step on the birds while they are sitting on their nests.
This little fellow, or in this case this little miss, appears to be sitting on her eggs doing her best to ignore the photographer. She appears to be completely unafraid of the person taking the photo. I like the way the photographer got down and shot up hill to isolate the subject agent the blue sky. This gives us a good clear image of the bird.
There are a couple things the photographer may want to take into consideration. There appears to be something going on with the digital image. The pixels are starting to block up in some of the sky and the shadows under the bird. This may be caused by over processing in the computer or cropping in to tight on an image that does not have enough information in the original data file. The lighting is nice but not outstanding. It would have helped to bring the subject alive if there had been a catch light in the eye.
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February 23rd, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Nice exposure; it looks like you pushed the histogram as far ‘right’ as possible, good job. You can fix the pixelation by going into cahnnels and find out which channel has the worst noise, then select: filters, blur filter, and at the bottom of the blur filter, select ’surface blur’. Move the slider(s) to get rid of the noise (check each channel)and viola, all fixed. Channels and surface blur was not intended as a method of ‘noise reduction’ option but it works great! Who needs Neat image or Noise Ninga when you have this for free.