Great Crested Grebe

[Pumptruffle]

Great Crested Grebe.

[Dave Humphries]

Hello and welcome to the CiC forums from me.

That's a very nice capture, I find these quite tricky to shoot, it is so easy to over expose the small white parts. I'm not even going to link to one of mine, because this is so much better.

I see from the EXIF data that it was shot with a Canon 500D and Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS lens at 400mm and 1/1600s, f/7.1 and iso 200.


We're a friendly bunch here and prefer to use real names and know where in the world people reside, so could I ask a favour?
Could you click Settings (right at the top),
then Edit Profile (on left)
and put your first name in the Real Name field
and where you are (roughly) in the Location field,
then click the Save Changes button below and to right,
this helps everyone give you more personal and relevant answers - thanks in advance.


It is almost impossible to suggest an improvement to that shot; the one thing I might do, if it were mine, is clone out that little 'fuzzy bit' just on the bottom edge of frame 'above' (i.e. below) the reflection of its head.

There are two other suggestions I have;
a) Put some copyright information (including your name) in to the EXIF data in camera and ensure it gets transferred via image editor (ACR and PS Elements 14) to the final image.
b) Before uploading to TinyPic, down size the image to a maximum of 1600 px wide, or 1000 px tall, then sharpen with USM at 100% (Amount), 0.3px (Radius) and a threshold of say 1 (a bit higher if an image has some noise).

I suggest b) because you must have uploaded at a size greater than this, which results in TinyPic downsizing to 1599 px, which softens it - in other words, it could have been seen even sharper here, not that it looks too bad even now.

Cheers, Dave

[John 2]

Welcome to the forum and that's a very nice opening shot. The only thought that I have is that it might be worth a slight crop left and bottom to remove the dark reflection making its way down the LH edge. But that is probably nit picking over what is a very nice capture.

[Shadowman]

Nice shot.

[Pumptruffle]

Hello and welcome to the CiC forums from me.

That's a very nice capture, I find these quite tricky to shoot, it is so easy to over expose the small white parts. I'm not even going to link to one of mine, because this is so much better.

I see from the EXIF data that it was shot with a Canon 500D and Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS lens at 400mm and 1/1600s, f/7.1 and iso 200.


We're a friendly bunch here and prefer to use real names and know where in the world people reside, so could I ask a favour?
Could you click Settings (right at the top),
then Edit Profile (on left)
and put your first name in the Real Name field
and where you are (roughly) in the Location field,
then click the Save Changes button below and to right,
this helps everyone give you more personal and relevant answers - thanks in advance.


It is almost impossible to suggest an improvement to that shot; the one thing I might do, if it were mine, is clone out that little 'fuzzy bit' just on the bottom edge of frame 'above' (i.e. below) the reflection of its head.

There are two other suggestions I have;
a) Put some copyright information (including your name) in to the EXIF data in camera and ensure it gets transferred via image editor (ACR and PS Elements 14) to the final image.
b) Before uploading to TinyPic, down size the image to a maximum of 1600 px wide, or 1000 px tall, then sharpen with USM at 100% (Amount), 0.3px (Radius) and a threshold of say 1 (a bit higher if an image has some noise).

I suggest b) because you must have uploaded at a size greater than this, which results in TinyPic downsizing to 1599 px, which softens it - in other words, it could have been seen even sharper here, not that it looks too bad even now.

Cheers, Dave

Hi, thanks for the welcome. I was browsing for PP tutorials and stumbled across this website, from what I've seen it's the best I've come across so far!

Thanks for the feedback, I see the bit you mean and agree it could do with going! I'll also take note of the TinyPic hints in future. For some reason though, the picture appears sharper when I view it on this website in firefox, than if I open it up in Windows photo viewer. Any idea why that might be?

[Pumptruffle]

Welcome to the forum and that's a very nice opening shot. The only thought that I have is that it might be worth a slight crop left and bottom to remove the dark reflection making its way down the LH edge. But that is probably nit picking over what is a very nice capture.

Thanks very much. I did try removing that, but it made the picture quite square, and for some reason I'm not too keen on square images!

[NorthernFocus]

Really a nice shot. Well done.

[IzzieK]

Nice shot, but what you want us to refer to you as?