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Published: 2009-08-01 15:46:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 1067; Favourites: 45; Downloads: 0
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Nearly 4 hours I was sitting in my hideout and was waiting for the kingfisher, and then I got it, my first photo of a kingfisher
Hope you like it...
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i also noticed that when i import photos on lightroom, the program with, directly with the import, makes the colours less vivid. and my photos in lightroom are darker than when i export them....
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I think it's also a result of the diffuser (If it's truly a diffuser). That's kind of stupid because I liked to work with lightroom and photoshop. Now I have to use the Nikon Raw-Convert, Lightroom and Photoshop - that's definitely too much. But maybe there is a way to calibrate the adobe Raw Converter, that there is not such a big loss of details and sharpness.
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awful! most specially, of course, when you have loads of photos to convert... T_T
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Yes, and I still don't know how my workflow should be. I simply like to work with photoshop and its layers. But a few little adjustments I surely could use the Nikon RAW Converter. Argh.. I don't know what to do
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Wow, great shot! I admire your patience!
And wow I didn't even know that Nikon had their own software, I'll be looking into that...
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Yes Nikon has their own software - Nikon CaptureNX 2. I think you will need time to learn to work with it, because it's not really intuitive. Now I'm working with ViewNX - it's the free software which comes with each camera. I don't like CaptureNX and I only want the RAW Converter from Nikon and this is also available in ViewNX, for free. So I just made a TIFF in ViewNX and edit it then in photoshop.
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Damn! I wish my first Kingfisher shot had turned out this good. [link]
This is awesome.
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Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeee,my friend!Congratulations ...it's so fascination!We want moreeeee!
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Hehehehehe,great.... good luck tomorrow ,today me and my friend take some pictures on kingfisher too ...just like you we will go again tomorrow for another try !
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Ha, thanks again! Will you show your kingfisher on dA? And, I wish you good luck too!
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Four hours? That's dedication.
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Thank you very much!
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Ah, rain. The enemy of wildlife photographers. Unless you get lucky and have some sort of gear to protect the camera from rain, but then you have to consider how much you want to get wet.
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The rain itself was not really the problem, my hideout was well protected. Bur the light, there was no light any longer. ISO 800 and f/5 but only 1/15s. But I now know the location and will make another try
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I use a regular point and shoot right now, because my Olympus E-420 doesn't have a lens right now, and I'm practicing with a Canon AE-1 system. I'm saving up for a pancake-type for the E-420 so that I can take it to conventions~ I love taking pictures of people in elaborate costumes. After I get the pancake-type 25mm, I'll go for the macro lens. But the point-and-shoot doesn't like to listen to me - it recently changed most of my settings so a good deal of my Otakon photos are overexposed, underexposed, and blurred due to the shutter speed changing on it's own (or someone messing with my camera without my knowledge...).
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I don't own a flash. And it's not really good to flash animals. Also there is the problem that the hideout only has a very small hole, just big enough for the lens. Maybe I find a better place to make photos of a kingfisher.
Photoshop can't produce light where no light was. The Problem is the long shutter speed. With 500mm of focal length and a shutter speed of just 1/60s or longer the slightest vibration will cause a unsharp photo. And the Bird itself will not sit there absolutely motionless, just for me to make a photo of him
Oh people photography, that's not my world, except there is a falconer with his/her bird
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Hrm.
Shutter speeds are a problem for me. I don't know what speeds are appropriate for what shutter, and my Lumix likes to screw around with the speed data. It says it has 1/8-, 1/4-, 1/2- and 1- speeds, but when I look at the meta data, it's some strange gigantic fraction. And then the camera likes to shift randomly between 1/8- and 1-. so some of my convention pictures are either nice or really out of focus.
Oh, I'd love to get a shot of something like that~~.
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