Another Fogo Island Feathered Friend!

camperbc · Aug 9, 2011

Here is another Fogo Island duck capture that I want to share with you. As per my previously posted duck pics, this too was taken handheld using one of my Sony A500's and the Minolta 100-300mm APO (D) lens, at full zoom. (ISO 200, f/8, 1/320th sec)

I could not afford the Sony 70-300mm "G" lens at the time, so I picked this one up for a whopping $575 less! And to my eyes, the Minolta results look every bit as good! Stopped down, this lens is incredibly sharp, and I never tire of those famous "Minolta colours"!

Glen
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Virtuosos · Aug 9, 2011

It looks pretty good color wise. I think getting the entire duck in the shot would of worked better though, but that is probablly preference!

camperbc · Aug 10, 2011

hmmm... Oh well, Nat Geo wanted it, so that's good enough for me.
Thanks,
Glen

Markw · Aug 13, 2011

Yeah. Getting the whole duck, and possibly from a different angle would be good. As far as the colors go, I think you may have helped a bit there. There are some weird artifacts/color noise in the eye. Also, the lens apparently has some pretty bad fringing. The purple arond the highlight in the eye is pretty severe as well, if that's not from post processing.

camperbc · Aug 14, 2011

Markw said:
Yeah. Getting the whole duck, and possibly from a different angle would be good. As far as the colors go, I think you may have helped a bit there. There are some weird artifacts/color noise in the eye. Also, the lens apparently has some pretty bad fringing. The purple arond the highlight in the eye is pretty severe as well, if that's not from post processing.

ummm, sorry to disappoint, but the only PP was to resize for web. If I believed that the slight purple in the eye was an issue, I would have fixed it in PP. I have plenty of shots of this particular duck showing its entire body, but I preferred this image, as did National Geographic Magazine, so I am thrilled that I chose this image to post.