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tommy6206

tommy6206

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Just a few shots with new Canon 30D and sigma 50-500.
all 100% crops low light windy and dam cold and a long way off. All @500m

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The first two photos aren't in focus. The other two bird shots are very nice; especially considering you took them at 1/250 @ 500mm.
 
Like i said poor light very windy and a long way off. Here are some slightly better ones. Plus they were very under exsposed so did well to get what I did..Again 100% crops

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The bird in flight ones just look way over processed. I apreciate that they're 100% crops and underexposed but they're way too noisy and soft. The subject however is great.
 
I hear what you are saying but this is what I started with and none of the above have any sharpening applied

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And this one just resized for web nothing else.This is one of the above pics..
 
You've done a good job considering the source image but there's only so much that post processing can do. I don't think its possible however much processing to get a decent image out of those. No offence meant but in this case the image is irretrievable.

Its weird that its come out so underexposed considering you were spot metering and the subject in the center of the frame. I'm not entirely sure how the spot works but I would have thought it would have worked better than this.
 
I was going to say you should have used the spot meter but it looks like you did.

A few points worth thinking about

  1. Remember the camera meters the scene as 18% grey
  2. Do you use both focus and exposure lock on the shutter button? If you do then you have probably locked the exposure off the sky. Use custom function 4.3 to move focus to the * button and exposure to the shutter button. This will allow you to focus without locking exposure until the shot is taken.
  3. Tracking a small fast bird using spot metering (3% of the frame) accurately is going to take a lot of practice.
 
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I was going to say you should have used the spot meter but it looks like you did.

A few points worth thinking about

  1. Remember the camera meters the scene as 18% grey
  2. Do you use both focus and exposure lock on the shutter button? If you do then you have probably locked the exposure off the sky. Use custom function 4.3 to move focus to the * button and exposure to the shutter button. This will allow you to focus without locking exposure until the shot is taken.
  3. Tracking a small fast bird using spot metering (3% of the frame) accurately is going to take a lot of practice.
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2 yes I have so need to change it
4 tell me about it
@500mm in high winds hand held is a bit of a b@gger. It was just a small spot in the sky to the naked eye but it goes to show you can salvage some thing out of shooting in raw they wont make Time life magazine but worth it just for the rare sight of a Buzzard hunting and a real wild one at that. :D
 
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