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Since it’s so early in the month, I could consider pretty much any decent shot as being among my best stuff. But I’m pretty satisfied with this one…
[Nikon D7500 with Nikkor 18-300mm taken at 220mm, shutter priority, 1/4000 sec, f/6.3, ISO 280, processed in ACR then PSCS5]My small neighborhood has had 100s of crows flying noisily around the past couple of months.
As I was walking Pippin this afternoon, I had thoughts of getting a shot of one in flight and I switched to a fast shutter speed to increase my chances of a sharp shot.
I also crossed the street so the sun was positioned to better light the birds if they flew where I thought they would.
Battling Pippin’s tugs on the leash (GEESH, just what I needed – another factor working against an in-focus shot), I was ready when 10 or so crows took flight. The camera had to be handheld in order to pan and track the flight paths.
As expected, most of the shots were woefully unfocused. A few more were marginal, and one showed promise.
Processing was pretty involved: the fast shutter speed darkened the image (as I knew it would), but I trusted the camera to live up to it’s low light capabilities. So into ACR then PSCS5, where I lightened it considerably, using a mask to control where the lightening showed and how strong it was. Of course, lightening messed up the colors, so I adjusted that, again with a mask to restrict the color intensity adjustment to just the bird. (Otherwise, the sky would have been a jarring, intense, and unnatural hue.)
A few other small adjustments followed by the last step – a bit of sharpening, although not as much as I’d expected I’d need.
So the good news is I got a good shot of a bird in flight – I can think of only one or two others I’ve managed over the years. The bad news is that it’s of something as common and unexciting as a crow.
But it’s reasonably sharp, I like that the primary flight feathers are deployed in graceful curves as the bird maneuvers, there is enough detail visible in the bird that it’s not a flat black (at least on my screen), and the small twigs add something without (I hope) being a distraction.
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Photography is the art of observation. It has little to to with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. Elliott Erwitt
Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Zuiko 14-150 mm zoom, Zuiko 2.8 60mm macro, Sigma 2.8 Fish Eye. Nikon D5100
Many thanks Natalie.
Okay, if I posted this without my name attached, you probably would not have guessed that it was mine. I have a tendency to take closeups of everything from cows to grasshoppers. That’s my style. So, when I spotted this in my collection from my Sunday shoot in the Piquette Ave Car Museum in Detroit, I didn’t recognize it as my work and pleasantly surprised how it looked. All the other 599 photos that I took are close-ups (well almost
). So I am really enjoying this one. I hope you do too. The photo really loses a lot of detail because of the file size restriction. 
Photography is the art of observation. It has little to to with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. Elliott Erwitt
Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Zuiko 14-150 mm zoom, Zuiko 2.8 60mm macro, Sigma 2.8 Fish Eye. Nikon D5100Okay, here’s a close up.
Photography is the art of observation. It has little to to with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. Elliott Erwitt
Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Zuiko 14-150 mm zoom, Zuiko 2.8 60mm macro, Sigma 2.8 Fish Eye. Nikon D5100We have stores that sell only things that are made in Michigan. This was inside of one of the stores.
Photography is the art of observation. It has little to to with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. Elliott Erwitt
Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Zuiko 14-150 mm zoom, Zuiko 2.8 60mm macro, Sigma 2.8 Fish Eye. Nikon D5100Such lovely photos. My favorite is the close up of the tires.
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