Some Birds from recents shoots

bfjr

1st question: is the 300F4 sharp....weeeelllll I think so


flying prehistoric B52


Here Ginger, blue skys with clouds


Tern with fish


GBH in a Palm tree

ginger_55

Some very cool shots, with the blue sky color, Ben. But the tern w the fish, it is outstanding, IMO.

I suppose I could ask why fluffy white clouds are grey where you live, but then, ..............I do have green algae.

Very good, though. I like the way you shot up at the GBH, too.

ginger

jwear

is that first shot a sea cull did you use usm -- i have no idea what that is but everyone talks about it ,it looks like a seacull or is thaty an osprey nice shots old man thanks for the pm

bfjr

[QUOTE=I suppose I could ask why fluffy white clouds are grey where you live, but then, ..............I do have green algae.
ginger[/QUOTE]lo

Geeeezzz some people are tough to please :lol4

bfjr

jwear wrote:

is that first shot a sea cull did you use usm -- i have no idea what that is but everyone talks about it ,it looks like a seacull or is thaty an osprey nice shots old man thanks for the pm

USM (unsharp mask) in photoshop, used on raw files after conversion (usually a tiff file) used for "local contrast enhancement". Don't worry about the names.
Just set the sliders to:
top one - 40-60
2nd one - 20
bottom one - 2
and watch the magic
these are not hard #'s just a starting point

Just started using this myself (all of the above shots), thanks Harry !!
Hope that helps, buddy

Harryb

Excellent shots Ben. That 300mm is a really fine lens. It works very well with the 1.4 TC also giving you a reach of 420mm.

bfjr

Harryb wrote:

Excellent shots Ben. That 300mm is a really fine lens. It works very well with the 1.4 TC also giving you a reach of 420mm.

Evening Harry and Thank you
Ok 1.4 it is but I'll still be 200mm short :lol4