Post your best bird shots!

[Joel Eade]

Another nice shot Joel, But I have a question about this one and your previous duck shot. In these shots, the water and reflection around the bird look about as sharp as the bird. I know from your "lessons" that you like to seperate your subject from the back ground with a little gaussian blur. Do you also do this with the ducks in the water shots? if so, how do you keep the waves and reflection sharp?

Thanks

Bob

I use "quick mask" mode .... it allows you to "paint" a selection on your image then I blur or denoise the selected area only.

[bob williams]

I use "quick mask" mode .... it allows you to "paint" a selection on your image then I blur or denoise the selected area only.

Thanks Joel, How was the basketball camp last week?

[Joel Eade]

Thanks Joel, How was the basketball camp last week?

Very busy....I helped them shoot for about 6 hours on Tuesday. It's a 5 day camp with about 400 kids. They try to get action shots of all the kids the first 3 days then primarily sell photos on the last 2 days. He has 3 dye sublimation printers to make prints on site(4X6, 5X7 and 8X10) They are very fast and high quality. I talked to him on Thursday night and they sold almost $6000 up to that point. The camp runs for the next 2 weeks as well with a different group of kids each week. I might go back one more day if I can work it out.