Osprey

[ian408]

Steve C. and I met up at the perk ponds again. Light was so-so but
improving as the sun sank.

Spent a lot of time shooting the Osprey that lives and hunts near there. These
are two of the better shots but they're still lacking something. Any help would
be greatly appreciated.

http://ian408.smugmug.com/photos/23343957-M.jpg

http://ian408.smugmug.com/photos/23343959-M.jpg

Ian

[4labs]

Ian,

Just my opinion that if the sky isn't nice and blue there isn't much you can do. I think under the conditions you were shooting in these are great.

[Harryb]

Steve C. and I met up at the perk ponds again. Light was so-so but
improving as the sun sank.

Spent a lot of time shooting the Osprey that lives and hunts near there. These
are two of the better shots but they're still lacking something. Any help would
be greatly appreciated.
Ian
Hey Ian,

Good job on a very, very hard exposure. :thumb I'm betting that they were a tad backlit. You had to OE the sky a bit (hence the loss of color) in order to capture the details in the dark feathers.

I don't know what I would have done differently. The shots are sharp enough, the first shot is exposed very well. I think you did as about as good as you could have with the shooting conditions you had. If you had the opportunity to change your shooting position that might had helped.

I blew an osprey shot this weekend because I didn't want to shoot it backlit. As I started to move so that the sun would be behind us the darn thing flew away.


Harry

[ian408]

Thanks for the coment Eric and Harry!

There was probably more sidelight. Though I think the sky played more in the
poor color. It's been beautiful all week then, according to Murphy, the weekend
has been overcast with little peaks of sunshine.

I hear the PNW is having a heat wave :D

Ian

[bfjr]

The only thing I say that's wrong is (we have heard beford :D) I didn't shoot them :D