\u00a01\/2500, f\/7.1, ISO 1000, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, natural light<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nI found this male Black-headed Grosbeak foraging in a tree near a Montana mountain lake on my\u00a0first trip up there earlier this month\u00a0.\u00a0 The setting is a little cluttered but to my eye it’s an attractive clutter.<\/p>\n
I’m often puzzled by the noise, or lack thereof, I get from the Canon 7D at higher ISO’s.\u00a0 This photo was taken at ISO 1000, which I didn’t really need (I’d been shooting in other conditions just before and forgot to change my settings – the “rookie mistake” referred to in my title).\u00a0 The 7D generally doesn’t handle noise well above about ISO 640 so I was surprised that I didn’t have more of it here (image is cropped 50% and no noise reduction was used).\u00a0 This time I got less noise than expected but sometimes I get more.\u00a0 Go figure…<\/p>\n
And as long as I’m on the subject of unexpected results – there’s an indistinct but noticeable vertical line in the far background at the top of the frame at upper right.\u00a0 I have no clue where it came from.\u00a0 It isn’t a processing artifact (all I did here was crop, then\u00a0mask and sharpen the bird) so there\u00a0may have been something unnatural back there to cause it but I sure didn’t think there was when I took the shot.<\/p>\n
These are the kinds of things that drive me a little batty sometimes.\u00a0 If I knew I could rely on higher ISO’s with reasonable noise I’d use those settings to get shots that normally elude me.\u00a0 When I get unexpected and distracting background elements even when I’ve made the effort to maneuver myself into position to avoid them, it’s frustrating.<\/p>\n
I’m constantly reminding myself that photography isn’t an exact science.\u00a0 And it isn’t easy or always predictable…<\/p>\n
Ron<\/p>\n
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I found this male Black-headed Grosbeak foraging in a tree near a Montana mountain lake on my recent camping trip up there. The setting is a little cluttered but to my eye it’s an attractive clutter.<\/p>\n
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