Ducks and Swans

**casil403** · 03-26-2009, 09:17 PM

In January I went back home to visit my family in BC. The live near this lagoon/bird sanctuary area and every day at around noon, this couple comes to feed the ducks and swans buckets of bird feed. We went down to have a look....so many swans and hundreds of ducks! I got to hand feed the swans ...was quite something!

**Ben H** · 03-26-2009, 09:21 PM

Wow!

Ducktastic!

Great shots!

**Barefoot** · 03-26-2009, 09:33 PM

Casil, do you realize just how incredible that fourth shot is? To me, at least, it is.

Was there any post p in it?

**casil403** · 03-26-2009, 09:44 PM

Originally Posted by Barefoot

Casil, do you realize just how incredible that fourth shot is? To me, at least, it is.

Was there any post p in it?

Thanks!
Just a small crop to remove a swan butt..other than that nada.
I actually had these in the recycle bin destined for deletion as I didn't think much of them and pulled them at the last minute.

Michael, the swans necks were a bit on the yellowish side if that's what you are seeing...the rest of their bodies are white in the original. The ducks in the back seem white too so not too sure. I probably had it on the wrong WB (actually I probably had the setting on auto) as this was the first photos I took with the DSLR

**Barefoot** · 03-26-2009, 09:49 PM

Another question. Were they shot with the K200D? If so, maybe you could put that last one back on a card and then put the card in the 200D so that you could run the HDR filter option the camera offers. I'd really like to see that.

**casil403** · 03-26-2009, 09:51 PM

They were all shot w/ the k200. How would i go about putting it back on the card?

**jjeling** · 03-26-2009, 10:48 PM

Originally Posted by Barefoot

Another question. Were they shot with the K200D? If so, maybe you could put that last one back on a card and then put the card in the 200D so that you could run the HDR filter option the camera offers. I'd really like to see that.

Hate to break it to you guys but thats not going to work.
The option on the Pentax cameras is called "Extended" dynamic range(EDR) and not "High" dynamic range(HDR). Putting the image onto a card and then back into the camera is not going to change enhance the image more than it already is. Not only that, EDR only applies to in-camera JPEGS. This means that if you are a RAW shooter, the EDR option is completely useless. There is more information for exposure and color in RAW than EDR JPEGS. In essence, shooting in RAW is still as good as a camera will get. Otherwise, if your shooting in JPEG mode, the details of the image are not going to get much better. The camera is not going to be able to create more information about an image if it is put back into the camera with EDR turned on. EDR is not a filter, it is something that is applied to images the instant they are exposed.

Also, as another tip for Pentax shooters using JPEGs. DO NOT trust the camera's default settings. Pentax sets the contrast, sharpness, and color settings down. They are extremely conservative with this. If you turn each of these settings up, then the quality of the JPEGS is the same as any Canon or Nikon. This is something the most reviews of Pentax cameras do not pick up on. Raw files are raw files from any camera, sharpening to your desire is forced regardless in this situation.

http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/p...era-hdr-2.html

http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/p...-200-k20d.html