I cant believe I took images of Pelicans

[Striker]

As some of you know I have always given the guys a hard time about imaging Pelicans on this forum and yep I have done the same....I am ashamed..sorry

Anyway.

Got the Canon 70-200 F2.8 L today so I took it for a burn with the 40D I still dont know what I am doing and still playing around on AV with aperture.

Most of these were taken at the 200mm range handheld F2.8-F3.2 approx 1/5000 sec the F3.2 images were 1/2000 sec

Please comments welcomed as I need to learn and they a far from perfect not that I thought they would be.

[sheeny]

:lol:

btw the yellow one is not a pelican...:P ... and neither is the the giggleburra or ducks, so you're not completely gone...


...yet...

:D

Al.

[ving]

its a good lens that one :D

not bad tony, they are pretty sharp. just watch your whites, they are pretty blown in some of these pics :)

keep up the good work :D

[Striker]

hahah Sheeny

Thanks Dave, When you say the whites are blown out does that mean the exposure's are too long how can I improve this.
I suppose your suggesting to get away from some of the auto settings and go manual and watch the histogram...am I right.

[ving]

that would help :)
yeah when you over expose the whites (or under expose blacks) you loose all the detail in that area permantently. if you shoot for the whites and use levels and/or curves to balance the ddarker colours you will end up with more detail and a better ballanced picture. :)

also what metering mode did you use? changing that may also help....

i just checked your exif and youhave the exposure bias set to +1.33 which is really high. bring it down to zero and if its under exposing too much bring it up to +0.3 or +0.7 maximium....

hope this helps :)

[AlexN]

Yeah, as David mentioned, bring down the exposure bias to get the whites balanced nicely, then using either curves or shadows/highlights balance the rest of the image to suit..

Other than that, you have yourself a very nice bit of equipment there, make sure to feed it plenty of photons to make it grow up big and strong :D

Great sharp focus on your images to.

Ps. I thought Mike had already banned pelican photos :P

Alex.

[RB]

Excellent start Tony !
LOL I was expecting a few Pelican cases amongst those shots too. ;)

[gman]

You are now hereby dubbed
"Storm Boy the First"

[Ian Robinson]

Got some strange duck billed pelicans there ...:D

[Garyh]

Very nice pics Tony!
But I think there are hidden meanings behind all those birds!
Like Seagull, running chickens and Swans ;)

[leon]

Why, they are very nice Pelicans, very crisp and clear.

leon