This is a first post photo to baseline my capabilities prior to starting on my Ecuador photo trip with Trogon tours. This is a Streakbacked Oriole poised for flight to capture breakfast.
This was a quick shot taken with my Nikon D500 and 28-300mm lens on my daily morning walk.!
1/2500, sec, ISO 200 f5.6 300mm
Welcome EJ. You’ll find this a great place to learn and I’m sure you’ll love your trip. This is a really nice composition and the exposure looks good, difficult to do sometimes with that bright background. Both the bird and the perch look just a bit soft and at that shutter speed it shouldn’t be camera shake, so I suspect it’s a focus issue. I’m not familiar with the lens you’re using (I shoot Canon), but a lot of lenses are inherently slightly soft at maximum zoom and maximum aperture. You can sometimes get better results stopping down a click or two and sacrificing a bit of shutter speed.
All in all, this is an excellent first post. Welcome again.
I love this composition, pose and the perch. It’s a beautiful shot. I agree that the focus is soft. Did you crop it much? I am wondering if you could brighten the whole thing a bit and still keep the background in control.
Welcome to NPN. Sounds as if you have a great trip planned and look forward to seeing your photos.
I agree it is a bit soft, but it gives it a painterly feel, as if from a book. One thought would be to rotate the image so the vine is not vertical. I think that might add a bit of interest to the shot.
Hi,
Feather detail is not present in the image as presented. Go back to your RAW file and re-edit the file. I think that you can pull up the brightness in the whites a tad bit and sharpen the image after downsizing for the web. The image is not that soft and should sharpen adequately. That should make this guy look more crisp. So, this image has lots of potential and with some tweaks to your post-processing should make an ideal image for display…Jim
