Some California Quail shots.

Rohirrim

Captured this crew running through the back or our property today. The quail hatch was spectacular this year due to our heavy winter.



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Thanks for looking,

gus

They are very clear sharp photos steve What lens ? The 400 prime or 100-400.

We have quail here but they are tiny & you never see them until you are almost on top of them in the long grass & when they take off its so fast that you nearly have to cover your face in fear that one will go up your nose. All you see is blur & the scream of their wings.

Gus

Khaos

The top one is primo. Sharp with greak bokeh. Very nice

Rohirrim

Humungus wrote:

They are very clear sharp photos steve What lens ? The 400 prime or 100-400.
Gus

Thank you for your comments Gus. I was using the 100-400. Shooting hand held, but laying prone which I think helped a lot. I was shooting in Aperture priority 6.3 (I think this may be a little sharper than 5.6 on this lens). Shooting RAW. I recently went back to processing in Capture One. I've been using ACR for a while, but I seem to get better results with Capture One.

All of these were PP in PS with a 10% curve adjustment in the a and b channels in LAB mode. I also sharpened the L channel in LAB, then applied a layer mask to only sharpen the bird. I truly feel that selective sharpening is the only way to go with bird shots. Even slightly soft photos will look much sharper with selective sharpening.

If anyone is interested I wrote a tutorial on selective sharpening that can be found here

Regards,

ginger_55

Steve, clicking on "here' took me to the exif. I would be interesting in printing out your tutorial.

Forgot to say that I think those are wonderful shots! Interesting/different looking bird.

ginger

Rohirrim

ginger_55 wrote:

Steve, clicking on "here' took me to the exif. I would be interesting in printing out your tutorial.

Forgot to say that I think those are wonderful shots! Interesting/different looking bird.

ginger

OOPS!, :bash Sorry Ginger and I'm glad you like the shots. I fixed the link on my previous message and here it is again- http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=17825 Let me know if it doesn't make sense.

Regards,

Harryb

Excellent shots Steve. You captured some marvelous feather detail in them.

Rohirrim

Harryb wrote:

Excellent shots Steve. You captured some marvelous feather detail in them.

Thanks Harry!