Blue waters

[Steve S]

Comments welcome.....................

[Dave Humphries]

Nice, but I wouldn't mind seeing it bigger, say 1000 or 1200 wide, or is it already a significant crop?

Compositionally, just a shade too much dead water in front of duck (i.e. on right)?

Good effort, little to suggest to improve it.

[Steve S]

Nice, but I wouldn't mind seeing it bigger, say 1000 or 1200 wide, or is it already a significant crop?

Compositionally, just a shade too much dead water in front of duck (i.e. on right)?

Good effort, little to suggest to improve it.

Larger, same crop



Or tighter crop

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Steve,

Well, the duck is the same size in both, so I'll go with the tighter crop version as the duck is all I am looking at.

It looks like a seriously relaxed duck

Although it isn't an overly noisy shot, you could try some Neat Image Noise Reduction to get a nice glossy reflection.

Being really super-critical and nit-picky (but hopefully helpful), is it sharper at the (closer to camera) rear end than the head? Sorry, I have become sensitive to such issues as I have struggled myself with focusing at 200/250mm, so at 420mm, maybe I am expecting too much.

I'd be well pleased with this shot myself and despite my comments above, I probably wouldn't go back again to tackle the things I have raised, I'd just bear them in mind for next time, or use on an alternative shot.

Hope that helps,

[Steve S]

Hi Steve,

Well, the duck is the same size in both, so I'll go with the tighter crop version as the duck is all I am looking at.

It looks like a seriously relaxed duck

Although it isn't an overly noisy shot, you could try some Neat Image Noise Reduction to get a nice glossy reflection.

Being really super-critical and nit-picky (but hopefully helpful), is it sharper at the (closer to camera) rear end than the head? Sorry, I have become sensitive to such issues as I have struggled myself with focusing at 200/250mm, so at 420mm, maybe I am expecting too much.

I'd be well pleased with this shot myself and despite my comments above, I probably wouldn't go back again to tackle the things I have raised, I'd just bear them in mind for next time, or use on an alternative shot.

Hope that helps,

Now you know why i cropped it where i did,. I have a simple rule, never crop more than 1/4 of the original image (one i try to live by). If you do, you will see too much noise on a crop sensor (at least on a 10mp sensor). I usually try to fill the frame, but if i can't , i shoot for no less than 1/3 of the frame for a crop, if i can.

[Dave Humphries]

~ I have a simple rule, never crop more than 1/4 of the original image (one i try to live by). If you do, you will see too much noise on a crop sensor (at least on a 10mp sensor). I usually try to fill the frame, but if i can't , i shoot for no less than 1/3 of the frame for a crop, if i can.

Hi Steve,

Personally, I shoot the subject and worry about that later.

Sometimes I end up with an image that's so small after cropping it doesn't need down-sizing to display here, you all get to see 1:1 ok, I can't print it, but who would look at it anyway?

I know I shouldn't crop that much and obviously I do try to fill the frame, usually by waiting for the little critter to swim closer to me and usiing those shots, but sometimes they're just too shy

So, if I don't have the benefit of the down sizing to reduce the noise, I have to do it myself with ACR and if a real issue, Neat Image.

Cheers,