[Leica] IMG: Cattle Egret, White-tailed Kite

[Doug Herr]

Ric, Jim, Nathan, Douglas, Gene… thanks for your comments.

Douglas: I agree about the bird merging with the background, I may be able to do some local fixes to reduce the problem.  The FD 500 L is quite good for a ~ 25-year-old lens.  It’s no APO-Telyt but it’s not priced like one either.  It requires some CA adjustment and saturation / contrast enhancement but once these are done the prints are quite pleasing.  One “feature” of this lens I haven’t gotten around yet is less highlight detail than the 280 APO, which may have contributed to the problem you noted.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
 http://www.wildlightphoto.com <http://www.wildlightphoto.com/>



> On Dec 2, 2015, at 8:11 AM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
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> "Doug Herr" <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote
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>> White-tailed Kite: http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/accipitridae/elanus/wtkite06.html <http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/accipitridae/elanus/wtkite06.html>
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> Nice images, Doug, and the Sony with Canon lens works well, but the white background is overwhelming the kite's outline in parts.
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> You'll have to tell that guy holding up the white backdrop behind it to use the blue one instead :-)
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> Douglas 
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