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Posted by Bruce Sherman on Wed Nov 26, 2003 3:34 pm

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I caught this pretty girl this morning at the Port Aransas, TX Birding Center. For just a brief time this morning the light was magnificent. The greens are the reflections of cattails in the BG.

EOS 1D with 600 and 2X TC, incident metering with no adjustment (1/500 and f11 @ ISO 250), flash at - 2. Cropped about 30% from original.

This looks just a tad soft to me. Seems like most of my shots with the 600 and the 2X TC are like this. Probably my technique.

Thanks for looking. All comments welcome.

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by Jim Neely on Wed Nov 26, 2003 4:23 pm
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Bruce, although I'm looking at this on a laptop, it doesn't look soft to me.

Nice looking image of a nice looking lady. The reflection is really nice.

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by AlexC on Wed Nov 26, 2003 4:28 pm
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I am still impressed with that proboscis!!
Wonderful capture and a great bird as well!!
Congrats!!! 8)
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by Bill Whala on Wed Nov 26, 2003 4:58 pm
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Bruce,

A nice, peaceful image. I love how the blue reflections in the bow wave and wake break up the predominantly green water. Great reflection too.

Very nice. :)
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by D7avid on Wed Nov 26, 2003 5:00 pm
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looks sharp enough to me..great all around
 

by Mike Wilson on Wed Nov 26, 2003 5:07 pm
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Nice image. Maybe -1/3 less exposure and a head turn would make this better. Looks sharp on my monitor.
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by Andrew Mc on Wed Nov 26, 2003 5:15 pm
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Great reflections in the water here. Nice.
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by Jim Zipp on Wed Nov 26, 2003 6:53 pm
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Beautiful image Bruce. The jpeg looks fine. Nice reflection.
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by E.J. Peiker on Wed Nov 26, 2003 7:55 pm
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A gorgeous shot - I find females tough to photograph because they hightail it out of there like she is doing - a little more of a head turn would be great but I still love the shot.
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by Jim Urbach on Wed Nov 26, 2003 10:07 pm
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Bruce,

Lovely reflection and blue wake patterns.

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by KK Hui on Thu Nov 27, 2003 8:33 am
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Very well done, Bruce! :lol:
Love the green water and reflection ...
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by Laura Stiefel on Thu Nov 27, 2003 9:27 am
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Very nice! I especially like the clean reflection.
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by fredcor on Thu Nov 27, 2003 10:27 am
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Very, very nice!. I really like the colours and sharpness. I was shooting some of these last Sunday, but could not get close enough with my 100-400 + 1.4x

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by Chris Valentine on Thu Nov 27, 2003 11:48 am
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Nice green water and the reflection is beautiful. The head turn would have been a nice bonus.

I've had trouble getting sharp images with the 10D 600 w/ 2x, didn't have problems with slide film however. I figure it's my technique also but maybe it just needs extra USM? I don't know.
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by Robert Ludwick on Thu Nov 27, 2003 2:07 pm
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Bruce,

Excellent. I too am really impressed by the reflection which is great. Head turn would have been great, but, we can't always have everything. I would take this any day.

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by Juan E. Bahamon on Sun Nov 30, 2003 2:25 pm
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Bruce:

I like it a lot, all nits already mentioned. I believe that digital almost always needs PS sharpening.
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