More from the Shore
A recent photo shoot at the New Jersey seashore resulted in over 500 shots … BUT … a number of shots were taken in bursts of 10 shots per second … So … I will be very happy if anywhere from 100-200 are publishable.
The photoshoot consisted of …
• Shorebirds and Other Bird Species
• Turtles
• Butterflies & Other Insects
• Wildflowers
• "Tourism"
For starters …
Cormorant Takeoff to Flight Sequence #1
© A. Mac/A.G.
Cormorant Takeoff to Flight Sequence #2
© A. Mac/A.G.
Cormorant Takeoff to Flight Sequence #3
© A. Mac/A.G.
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MAGNIFICENT!!!
Very kind … and greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Nice.
Would be better at at least 1024 wide....
The images are uploaded at their original size, Bob … let me see if I can make them wider and still have viewers able to see the full images.
If these appear to anyone to now be cut off at the right, please let me know.
Better, thanks. They support a bit of zoom.
Do I understand that these are significantly cropped from their initial size? I was assuming you had lots more pixels available.
They are cropped as are many photos of birds taken in the wild; these shots were taken in a salt marsh and two steps closer would have had me ankle deep in mud. A large sensor, i.e. 35MP would have yielded a larger physical size default image … but I can still get large prints without image degradation.
I understand. I crop almost all my photos, to improve the layout, keeping a large portion of the original.
But animals in the wild are different. They're usually distant, so the zoom lens is at max. Even so, the animal often occupies only a small portion of the image, so the crop is used as a "digital zoom".
My Sony Alpha 6000 creates images that are 6000 pixels wide. An ordinary photo will still be 5000 wide even after a significant crop.
An animal shot may be cropped way down to 1024x576. (Always 16/9.)
I understand the need for cropping in many circumstances. I have to do that when working on the images that I create. Blending, color enhancement, overlaying adjustments are all necessary to achieve the end product. Some copping is necessary to achieve that goal.
When I had the space, I planted tomatoes, cucumbers and bell peppers.
Oh, cropping PHOTOGRAPHS?
Never mind.
It's not that easy to full-frame a perfect photo when taking it. I, same as others, try to include a little more than I know would be ideal and then crop when editing the photo. I find it easier at that time to compose a photo to comply with the "rules" such as rule of thirds, etc. especially since the photo is considerably larger on the computer screen than in the viewing window on the back of the camera. A little cropping doesn't lessen the resolution so much that it makes much of a difference.
... but a lot of cropping certainly does. I've ended up trashing photos when I had to crop them so much that there just wasn't enough detail left.
That's always sad, because in my mind's eye I have that perfect photo.....
It's necessary to have a fairly good telephoto lens to photograph most wildlife. Fortunately, the camera I have now has an optical zoom range (compared to 35mm cameras) from 24mm to 720mm (which enabled me to get this shot from where the birds appeared to my eye to be only little white dots). I still had to do some minor cropping.
Must be a pretty good camera. At that degree of zoom, it's easy to get blurry.
... and you've got a very steady hand!
Nice photo...
It's a compact Panasonic with a Leica lens.