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(Message started by: KK Hui on Apr 9^th, 2003, 7:50pm)

Title: Common Moorhen 黑水雞
Post by KK Hui on Apr 9^th, 2003, 7:50pm

103 Common Moorhen 黑水雞
Mai Po Nature Reserve 米埔自然保護區
09/4/2003
EOS-10D
EF600/4L + EF1.4x
Incident light metering at zero
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/kkhui/kkhuicmoorhen01.jpg

Although the Common Moorhen can be seen at MPNR easily, it is nevertheless a wary bird that is difficult to approach. I've tried many times in the past to photograph this bird up close but failed ;D At last I had some success this morning ... and here it is!

Best
kk
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Title: Re: Common Moorhen 黑水雞
Post by Daniel CK Chan on Apr 9^th, 2003, 10:01pm

KK,

I saw him on Monday too ;). I think that you have catpured this shot with incident sunlight (which is rare recently :-[).

Rgds
Daniel

Title: Re: Common Moorhen 黑水雞
Post by KK Hui on Apr 10^th, 2003, 8:10am

on 04/09/03 at 22:01:27, Daniel CK Chan wrote:

I think that you have catpured this shot with incident sunlight (which is rare recently :-[).

Again, it was an overcast day with difused light. What works for me with this 'ordinary' image is the bright red/yellow bill, the reflection of the reed, the catchlight in its eye and so on ...

Best
kk
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Title: Re: Common Moorhen 黑水雞
Post by Daniel CK Chan on Apr 10^th, 2003, 9:07am

KK,

This was what I captured one day before you.
http://www.danielckchan.com/pagephotos/birds/birds20030407/images/b20030182-0600-200304070358.jpg
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/daniel_chan01/danielchancmoorhen01.jpg

Mai Po 米埔 08/4/2003

Rgds
Daniel

Title: Re: Common Moorhen 黑水雞
Post by KK Hui on Apr 10^th, 2003, 3:10pm

Right, it's the very same bird!!!!

Mine is 90% full frame ...

Best
kk
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Title: Re: Common Moorhen 黑水雞
Post by Daniel CK Chan on Apr 10^th, 2003, 10:49pm

on 04/10/03 at 15:10:08, KK Hui wrote:

Right, it's the very same bird!!!!

Mine is 90% full frame ...

Best
kk
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www.geocities.com/kkhui_001

Mine is 75% full frame ;D. You make me think again the 600.....but the extra weight still stop me...... :(

Title: Re: Common Moorhen 黑水雞
Post by Angus Lau on Apr 11^th, 2003, 12:47pm

KK, Daniel,

When you say 90% and 75% full frame, do you mean the photos posted were cropped by that amount or something else?

I am a beginner in bird photography but getting really hooked, particularly after seeing all the amazing pictures here. I wonder how much processing do you normally do in Photoshop such as crop, level, curve, sharpen. Or are they esstentially straight out of the camera?

Regards,

Angus Lau

Title: Re: Common Moorhen 黑水雞
Post by KK Hui on Apr 11^th, 2003, 4:27pm

on 04/11/03 at 12:47:33, Angus Lau wrote:

When you say 90% and 75% full frame, do you mean the photos posted were cropped by that amount or something else?

I am a beginner in bird photography but getting really hooked, particularly after seeing all the amazing pictures here. I wonder how much processing do you normally do in Photoshop such as crop, level, curve, sharpen. Or are they esstentially straight out of the camera?

Hi Angus,

90% full frame just means there is 10% of the total frame area being cropped off. In other word, the image you see is almost a full frame image straight out of the camera.

Almost all digital images require some sort of post processing work. The use of software application such as PS to 'restore' to its optimum viewing state is desirable. This may be USM, level/curve, color balance etc as you already memtioned. The amount of work however is dependent on the final ends you're aiming for; is it for printing, for web posting or ...

In general, it takes only a few minutes of post processing to get it from the digital camera to web posting.

Hope the clarification helps!

Best
kk
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www.geocities.com/kkhui_001

Title: Re: Common Moorhen 黑水雞
Post by Anguslau on Apr 12^th, 2003, 10:23am

Hi KK,

Thanks very much for your clarification. That confirms some of my thinkings and is very helpful. Whenever I process my images, I often have the guilt that I am "cheating". Particularly because I tend to crop too aggressively due to the fact that my longest telephoto lens is only 300mm. So most my raw images are always very tiny, even with the 2x teleconverter. But thats the only way that I can get some reasonably satisfactory pictures to drive me forward.

BTW, I really love your photos. They are great!

Regards,

Angus