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Migrating Geese
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hey guys/girls was out last weekend with the camera (as always) down by the river when I came accross these geese (dont know what type they are). The light was dire so I tried to brighten them up in PS might have over did it with the lens flare . comments and critisism welcome
They are Greylag geese, don’t like the lens flare you added, looks very fake, otherwise nice shots, especially the first one.
John Griffin wrote:
don’t like the lens flare you added, looks very fake, otherwise nice shots, especially the first one.
I don’t think the flare was added . I think it was just emphasised by the brightening.
Thats much better, I love the colour on their bellies, very nice light, I reackon they are the greylags that breed up in Castleconnell, did you get them near the university at Plassey? I also looked at you exif and notice you took the shot at ISO800 at 1/4000sec at F4, looks like you had great light, if you had decreased your ISO to 200 and increased to F6.3, I expect you would have got a much sharper shot with less noise, given that your focal lenght was only 92mm your shutter speed was un-nescessarily high. How much of a crop did you have to give it? I must say i like the way you composed the shot.
John Griffin wrote:
They are Greylag geese, don’t like the lens flare you added, looks very fake, otherwise nice shots, especially the first one.
:shock: :shock: Hi John. How did you see it was added ? :shock:
It looks a little bit too perfect to me (the flare that is) … at least thats how I spotted it…! Nice shot snaphappy… lovely colours…. could be a tad sharper on my monitor at least…!
Richie
Hi John. How did you see it was added ?
:D As Richie said it was just too perfect and going from one corner to the other in both photos with the same pattern of flare when there was probably about 180 degrees of pan between the 2 shots, it was simply not possible to get the same flare in both photos, i’ve also messed about with flare in photoshop and seen the results it gives and always thought it to be very fake.
Hey John thanks for your comments I had the camera on ap priority and wide open I was trying to get the lens wide open as I am having problems with this lens being very soft its a sigma 70 300 4/5.6 dg apo and I taught that if i shot with the lens wide open i would increase the shutter and therefore cut down on shake. took these guys down in the fields between shannon banks and parteen on an island called thomases island there is usually hundreds of them. As for the crop its tight enough there were three or four other geese in the shot but they appeared isolated from the others and just didnt look right, to me anyway so I bid them fairwell and croped them out. Thanks again for your comments
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