HKBWS BBS 香 港 觀 鳥 會 新 聞 組    Discussion Area 討論區    Photo Gallery 相片分享 I (Moderators: George_Ho, BBS Moderators, Kwok Jai, carmen, Forrest FONG)    Common Moorhen 黑水雞 « Previous topic | Next topic » Pages: 1  Reply Send Topic Print    Author  Topic: Common Moorhen 黑水雞  (Read 919 times) KK Hui BBS Member BBS God Bird Photography - at its best ...     Posts: 940 Common Moorhen 黑水雞 « on: Apr 9th, 2003, 7:50pm » Quote Modify 103 Common Moorhen 黑水雞 Mai Po Nature Reserve 米埔自然保護區 09/4/2003 EOS-10D EF600/4L + EF1.4x Incident light metering at zero   Although the Common Moorhen can be seen at MPNR easily, it is nevertheless a wary bird that is difficult to approach. I've tried many times in the past to photograph this bird up close but failed At last I had some success this morning ... and here it is!   Best kk -------------- www.geocities.com/kkhui_001 « Last Edit: May 20th, 2004, 12:19pm by BBS Moderators » Logged Daniel CK Chan BBS Member BBS God I love nature photography!     Gender: Posts: 794 Re: Common Moorhen 黑水雞 « Reply #1 on: Apr 9th, 2003, 10:01pm » Quote Modify KK,   I saw him on Monday too . I think that you have catpured this shot with incident sunlight (which is rare recently ).   Rgds Daniel Logged Daniel CK Chan http://www.danielckchan.com KK Hui BBS Member BBS God Bird Photography - at its best ...     Posts: 940 Re: Common Moorhen 黑水雞 « Reply #2 on: Apr 10th, 2003, 8:10am » Quote Modify on Apr 9th, 2003, 10:01pm, Daniel CK Chan wrote: I think that you have catpured this shot with incident sunlight (which is rare recently ).   Again, it was an overcast day with difused light. What works for me with this 'ordinary' image is the bright red/yellow bill, the reflection of the reed, the catchlight in its eye and so on ...   Best kk ------------- www.geocities.com/kkhui_001   « Last Edit: Apr 10th, 2003, 8:11am by KK Hui » Logged Daniel CK Chan BBS Member BBS God I love nature photography!     Gender: Posts: 794 Re: Common Moorhen 黑水雞 « Reply #3 on: Apr 10th, 2003, 9:07am » Quote Modify KK,   This was what I captured one day before you. http://www.danielckchan.com/pagephotos/birds/birds20030407/images/b20030 182-0600-200304070358.jpg   Mai Po 米埔 08/4/2003   Rgds Daniel « Last Edit: Apr 10th, 2003, 10:46pm by Forrest FONG » Logged Daniel CK Chan http://www.danielckchan.com KK Hui BBS Member BBS God Bird Photography - at its best ...     Posts: 940 Re: Common Moorhen 黑水雞 « Reply #4 on: Apr 10th, 2003, 3:10pm » Quote Modify Right, it's the very same bird!!!!   Mine is 90% full frame ...   Best kk --------------- www.geocities.com/kkhui_001 Logged Daniel CK Chan BBS Member BBS God I love nature photography!     Gender: Posts: 794 Re: Common Moorhen 黑水雞 « Reply #5 on: Apr 10th, 2003, 10:49pm » Quote Modify on Apr 10th, 2003, 3:10pm, KK Hui wrote: Right, it's the very same bird!!!!   Mine is 90% full frame ...   Best kk --------------- www.geocities.com/kkhui_001 Mine is 75% full frame . You make me think again the 600.....but the extra weight still stop me...... Logged Daniel CK Chan http://www.danielckchan.com Angus Lau Guest Re: Common Moorhen 黑水雞 « Reply #6 on: Apr 11th, 2003, 12:47pm » Quote Modify Remove KK, Daniel,   When you say 90% and 75% full frame, do you mean the photos posted were cropped by that amount or something else?     I am a beginner in bird photography but getting really hooked, particularly after seeing all the amazing pictures here. I wonder how much processing do you normally do in Photoshop such as crop, level, curve, sharpen. Or are they esstentially straight out of the camera?   Regards,   Angus Lau Logged KK Hui BBS Member BBS God Bird Photography - at its best ...     Posts: 940 Re: Common Moorhen 黑水雞 « Reply #7 on: Apr 11th, 2003, 4:27pm » Quote Modify on Apr 11th, 2003, 12:47pm, Angus Lau wrote: When you say 90% and 75% full frame, do you mean the photos posted were cropped by that amount or something else?     I am a beginner in bird photography but getting really hooked, particularly after seeing all the amazing pictures here. I wonder how much processing do you normally do in Photoshop such as crop, level, curve, sharpen. Or are they esstentially straight out of the camera?   Hi Angus,   90% full frame just means there is 10% of the total frame area being cropped off. In other word, the image you see is almost a full frame image straight out of the camera.   Almost all digital images require some sort of post processing work. The use of software application such as PS to 'restore' to its optimum viewing state is desirable. This may be USM, level/curve, color balance etc as you already memtioned. The amount of work however is dependent on the final ends you're aiming for; is it for printing, for web posting or ...   In general, it takes only a few minutes of post processing to get it from the digital camera to web posting.     Hope the clarification helps!   Best kk ------------- www.geocities.com/kkhui_001         Logged Anguslau BBS Member BBS God I love bird watching!     Posts: 402 Re: Common Moorhen 黑水雞 « Reply #8 on: Apr 12th, 2003, 10:23am » Quote Modify Hi KK,   Thanks very much for your clarification. That confirms some of my thinkings and is very helpful. Whenever I process my images, I often have the guilt that I am "cheating". Particularly because I tend to crop too aggressively due to the fact that my longest telephoto lens is only 300mm. So most my raw images are always very tiny, even with the 2x teleconverter. But thats the only way that I can get some reasonably satisfactory pictures to drive me forward.   BTW, I really love your photos. 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