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Originally Posted by G B-S.
Dear all -
Thank you again for all your time and advice. As you all appreciate this was an extreme example! The eagle was over a mile away. I have now tried all your various suggestions and yes, there is obviously too little meat for a good result - and the constraints of PS 7. I have learnt a huge amount and had a lot of fun in the process.
The camera. Canon 1DS. 400 prime lens with 1.4 extender - hand held. The camera was set on jpeg fine producing afile size of 4.19mb
Really I am surprised there was an image at all!
nirofo - if you need a manservant to carry your tripod on your next adventure let me know!
Cheers - Gordon.
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Hi Gordon
Yes it was asking a lot of the image you submitted!
Your camera and lens combo are more than up to the task of providing very usable images, providing you are not too ambitious. I would stick to RAW files if I were you, you can always make a JPEG out of them later if you really need to. You must try to get as close as possible to your subject, especially in bird photography where fine detail is usually required for identification purposes at least! There's no substitute for learning all you can about your subject and then applying fieldcraft to this knowledge to work yourself in close. If the subject is very far away then it's unlikely you will obtain a usable image from digital, there's usually too much noise in the file that is enhanced when a small section is enlarged, even with fine grained film such as Velvia, there is a problem when enlarging to the extent that the film grains become too large to hold on to definition.
Photoshop 7 is more than capable of rendering any digital image you can throw at it, most of the functions now in CS2 are in PS 7, admitted CS2 is geared more in favour of digital, the tools etc are slanted that way, however for the general digital photographer Photoshop 7 does the trick just fine. Many of the plugins that work for CS2 will also work for PS 7, there are many web pages where you can still download PS 7 plugins.
Thank's for your offer of being a manservant on some of my field trips, the state of my poor old back and aching joints could surely use some assistance on occasions. My burgeoning backpack doesn't seem to get any lighter, and it seems that sometimes I'm carrying 3 telegraph poles instead of a tripod, (must get one of those carbon fibre things and a magnesium head).
Keep up the submissions.
nirofo.