I don’t think I have ever captured a bird in a more classic birdy profile.

Bonus cronch:

Full sizes here and here.

  • Poem_for_your_sprog
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    1 day ago

    How’d you prevent chromatic aberration with the high background contrast? Or did you remove it in post?

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      It’s there, but there’s just not much of it. I didn’t do any postprocessing on this at all except feeding it through the byzantine ImageMagick script I wrote to stamp it with my penguin watermark.

      There is some chromatic aberration around the edges. It’s not much, but it’s there. Here is a full scale excerpt:

      Otherwise that’s just what this lens produces. It is, I’m [ proud | pleased | very sorry | choose one ] to report, about $2250 worth of glass.