Saturday Late Afternoon D2X Harrier

[jfenton]

ISO 800...no in camera noise reduction. Very late and SWEET lighting!

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Man..am I ever having fun with thse birds. Both the owls and the harriers are hunting together!

 

[greyflash]

Man are your ever finding some sweet shots and as you say the lighting was excellent also. Good job.

 

[Flew]

Now now you see why I'm so addicted to these guys. Another nice shot Jim.... :wink:

Frank

 

[PhotoDawg]

Very cool shot!!

 

[CraigH.]

Sweet is right! another excellent shot. Would like to see 100% crop of the bird on this one.
regards

 

[Gale]

Beautiful evening color.

Great shot.

Cheers
Gale

 

[Uncle Frank]

Jim, what was the ISO for that shot, and did you have to adjust levels very much? The reason I ask is that
I'm seeing more noise in the d2x samples presented so far than I would have expected.

 

[jfenton]

Uncle Frank...

ISO 800...in camera noise reduction was set to OFF. I had tried a couple of shots earlier with it ON, however it slowed down the shooting speed significantly.

There was no more processing required that I normally do. This took probably 2 minutes in NC to process.

I could have benefited by having another +0.3 or so...but it's tough to adjust that quickly when the birds are in really tight and swinging through so many different lighting situations. It;s much easier, for me at least, if they're further out and not 50' away.

I applied no noise reduction during post.

 

[Ron Reznick]

Crop about 100 pixels in from the right (symmetrical referenced to the upper wing) and you've got a winner there.

Jeez, you're coming up with some spectacular stuff lately, Jim.

Time to go pro.

Ron