Splash Down .. 3 point landing

[Ossyphoto]

Captured this shot on a visit to Cairns botanic gardens early morning with ideal light landing towards me.

[FootLoose]

Good catch, Gordon. I like the way the light subtly outlines the wings and draws attention to the feathers. I see in the exif you used ISO 2500 and I can't see any noise in the shadows. Did you reduce the noise in post or is the 5D that good?

[Chrisclick]

Nice one, Gordon. You caught the reflection well, too.

[Ossyphoto]

No this may have been slightly cropped but that is all the 5 DSL are really good in low light I frequently shoot over 10k ISO have a look on my F B page Ossyphoto at some of the night time Rodeo shots Not all are perfect but I have been lucky on occasion

[IzzieK]

On shots like this, kinda hard to pre-focus and this is good! Love it.

[Dave Humphries]

Good capture Gordon,

I have one suggestion - to rotate it anti-clockwise (so the reflection is directly below the part of the bird causing it)

I commend (to others) viewing this in LyteBox
(i.e. click on the image, then hit "F" key to ensure full size)

Dave

[Sam W]

Great shot Gordon, I like the DOF and sharpness.

[Shadowman]

Nice effort, a bit hot on the whites though.

[Rebel]

Nice effort, a bit hot on the whites though.

Agree with John here, whites a just a tad bit over the top!

[Wavelength]

Awesome

[Ossyphoto]

Thanks everyone for your comments, although I am not too sure what Dave means when he says rotate the image so the reflection is under the part of the bird that is causing it.

Rotating the image does not change the perspective of the image or the positioning of parts of the image within the image itself neither would rotating the image show more of the reflection

Moderator has removed question from this thread as new thread already started by Gordon

[Dave Humphries]

Thanks everyone for your comments, although I am not too sure what Dave means when he says rotate the image so the reflection is under the part of the bird that is causing it.

Rotating the image does not change the perspective of the image or the positioning of parts of the image within the image itself neither would rotating the image show more of the reflection

True (and true), but it would make the water's surface level.

Water is self-levelling and light travels in straight lines - by rotating the image, we can position the point of light causing a reflection directly above its reflection, we achieve accuracy.

If you overlay a grid, in an image editor, it becomes more obvious - original on left and corrected on right.



Ripples in the water can lead to local distortions, so it's wise to find several 'points' to check against.

Once you have rotated, you will need to crop to remove the 'triangles' at the edges.





I may have slightly over-cooked the correction above, but it illustrates the idea.

HTH, Dave

[Dave Humphries]

I have moved 'Scottish holiday' reply to the other thread.

Holidaying in Scotland
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[Ossyphoto]

Yes now I can see what you meant Dave the horizontal level of the water was around 5 deg out of level by rotating the image clockwise you have straightened up the water level. That is something I hadn't noticed I took the shot with a tripod and I thought I had it fairly straight, but not straight enough!! Thanks Dave