Throw-aways

[clutchkiller]

We had great light today and I managed to screw up just about every shot I took, I need to work on my sharpening skills a little... and figure out how not to get JPEG artifacts.

Anyway, here are three from today. I thought I would mess around with them a little before I delete them.

I think I learned from today's mistakes and hopefully I wont repeat them.

Thanks for look'n

 

[foulshot]

Paul, what were the mistakes????

 

[wtnhunt]

Kind of wondering what the mistakes were too?

 

[clutchkiller]

Zach and Wtnhunt, I spent most of yesterday trying to get a good shot of the dark-eyed juncos (the bird in the second shot). I think when taking pictures of animals it is very important to be able to see their eye's clearly... I couldn't get a good exposure of one of those little birds to save my life! I tried over-exposing by one and two stops, shooting at the right exposure... but just couldn't get a good image with some distinction between the eye's and black feathers around them.

Another mistake was not paying attention to my background and surrounding area's, which resulted in have to crop very close or having to do some cloning. If you look closely at the image with the woodpecker you can see some repeated patterns in the tree bark.

And... while editing.... When I had an image opened as a RAW file they looked nice and sharp, as soon as I converted to JPEG they would end up with very noticeable jagged edges along the smaller tree branches. I hate doing the sharpening part of processing, I always end up with a worse picture than I began with.