Chipping Sparrow

Gallery: AvianPosted July 15, 2012135 views13 comments

Taken in my backyard yesterday. Nikon D300s, 300mm 2.8 lens, ISO 640, f5.6, 1/2500. I rarely up the ISO on my camera because I get noise with even a small increase but yesterday I thought I would give it a try and for some reason I do not see a lot of noise in this image. I did not use on noise reduction.

Thanks for looking and critiques appreciated.

May

Comments

13 comments

Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on July 15, 2012 at 12:42 PM

Beautiful! Great pose and that perch with the lichen is excellent. Very complimentary colours throughout.

Sandy

Registered on November 24, 2003, 3937 Posts, 12909 Comments

Comment posted by Danny Laredo on July 15, 2012 at 1:10 PM

Lovely setup May.

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on July 15, 2012 at 1:40 PM

Good pose and perch. May, I have the 300s also, and I regularly shoot between 400 and 800 ISO for avian shots. With correct exposure and appropriate light, noise has never been a significant factor. I have (rarely) gone as high as 1250 ISO before seeing noticeable noise.

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Comment posted by S Govindarajan on July 15, 2012 at 1:55 PM

Excellent elements all through this image, May. Love the hopping pose. I find the perch in front of the sparrow a bit sharper than the sparrow itself.

Registered on April 19, 2008, 115 Posts, 1921 Comments

Comment posted by Richard Ditch on July 15, 2012 at 3:43 PM

A nice image as presented.

I keep my D300 at ISO 400 as much as possible but I don't hesitate to go to ISO 800 when the light is very low, and I've ecen found ISO 1600 to be usable as you can see in this Hermit Thrush post I made here. As Phil says the noise isn't an issue if you are careful to give a generous exposure (without blowing the highlights, of course).

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Comment posted by Peter Conway on July 15, 2012 at 4:17 PM

Hi May. It looks good. I really like the perch too. Have you tried and noise reduction software such as NIK Define? It would take care of the little BG noise we do see here in the Large version.

Peter

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Comment posted by Ron Bielefeld on July 15, 2012 at 6:34 PM

Nice action May. Love the perch branch. Nice exposure too. A bit of noise in the BG, but nothing bad enough to worry about.

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Comment posted by KC Choo on July 15, 2012 at 10:38 PM

Looks very good to me! Nice pose you got!

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Comment posted by Avi Hirschfield on July 16, 2012 at 1:42 PM

Nice
Sandy they say that the noise at 640 is less than at 400
Try and figure that one

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Comment posted by Richard Ditch on July 16, 2012 at 7:16 PM

Sandy they say that the noise at 640 is less than at 400

- Avi Hirschfield

They? Who would that be? Where was this said? About what camera? Why should we believe such a claim? Did "they" show any evidence? Did "they" offer an explanation?

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Comment posted by Ray Whitt on July 17, 2012 at 8:19 AM

Nice one May, I like the wings up pose.

Ray

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Comment posted by Ken Archer on July 18, 2012 at 4:20 AM

Sweet action shot May