Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> ...
>
> But all is not work and our friends have a beautiful garden in the back yard.
> Before all the family and friends arrived I got a chance to wander the
> garden and took a few shots of flowers and lawn with my favorite being the
> orange poppies. I hadn't realized my 80-200/2.8 Tokina had such nice bokeh
> at 200mm.
Lovely composition, and the bokeh at this subject/background distance is
very smooth. In spite of the overall low key look, I thought I was a bit
of red channel blocking up, which the histogram confirms. May be
correctable in re-conversion and it's such a nice image, perhaps worth
the extra effort.
> Also, the first shot is a first for me. A hungry Pileated Woodpecker who was
> knocking finger size chunks of wood out of an old, dead pine tree. It took a
> while but I eventually got close enough to him for a decent shot at 200mm.
>
Wow! I've chased woodpeckers around and never gotten anything anywhere
near as nice. It's so good I didn't notice the busy, edgy bokeh until
after several viewings. Gaussian Blur of radius 2 on the background
smooths it out nicely.
> <http://www.chucknorcutt.com/Glendenning%27s_Garden/>
All nice. For some reason, after the woodpecker, I particularly like the
lone yellow chair.
Moose
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