juvenile sharp shinned hawk northern harrier heron

ZombiesniperJr · Sep 17, 2016

1juvenile sharp shinnedhawk by Logan Baldwin, on Flickr
2blue heron_ by Logan Baldwin, on Flickr
3northern harrier by Logan Baldwin, on Flickr
4blue heron flight by Logan Baldwin, on Flickr

WesternGuy · Sep 17, 2016

1 and 3 are a bit dark. Don't know if you can lighten up the bird selectively, or not, but I do think it might help.

When shooting dark birds against a lighter background, you might want to open up 1/2 to 1 stop of exposure compensation as your in-camera meter will expose more for the sky because it is the dominant element in the image and thus the bird is underexposed.

The 2nd one of the GBH looks like a juvi as it doesn't seem to have its adult colours yet. This is a nice image as the eye is very sharp, a must-have for wildlife images. The last GBH image is not bad - colour is adult and the eye is quite sharp. Was it actually flying, or just flapping its wings as some of them do to cool down on occasion?

WesternGuy

ZombiesniperJr · Sep 17, 2016

WesternGuy said:
1 and 3 are a bit dark. Don't know if you can lighten up the bird selectively, or not, but I do think it might help.

When shooting dark birds against a lighter background, you might want to open up 1/2 to 1 stop of exposure compensation as your in-camera meter will expose more for the sky because it is the dominant element in the image and thus the bird is underexposed.

The 2nd one of the GBH looks like a juvi as it doesn't seem to have its adult colours yet. This is a nice image as the eye is very sharp, a must-have for wildlife images. The last GBH image is not bad - colour is adult and the eye is quite sharp. Was it actually flying, or just flapping its wings as some of them do to cool down on occasion?

WesternGuy

Thank you the both heron pics are the same bird the second one of the heron was just after it came flying in