Travel Theme: Fresh

For this week’s travel theme fresh I’m back in the classroom.  A freshly hatched chick:

ISO 3200 50mm 0ev f/4 1/25

And outdoors with newly hatched robins:

ISO 800 4mm 0ev f/2.7 1/60

These photos were taken with different cameras.  The chicken photo was taken with my Canon 50D.  The lighting was quite dark but I wanted to give the photo a soft light look.  So the ISO is high, the f-stop is low, and the shutter speed is slow. The chick was resting it’s head on the shell and was being very still, so the slow shutter speed was not a problem.

The robin photo was taken with my point and shoot camera using the macro setting on the camera.  While I didn’t do any post editing on the chicken, the robin photo has been cropped and sharpened.

Cheers!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh New Day

This rooster was very busy letting everyone within earshot know that it was a new day:

ISO 640 50mm f/5.6 1/100

I took this photo this morning with the thought of using it for this week’s photo challenge which has the theme of fresh.  Nothing like a rooster to remind you that a fresh new day has started.  He doesn’t mind repeating himself if you didn’t hear him the first time.

I took this photo when it was overcast, so I increased the ISO to 640.  I used a fast shutter speed in order to catch the rooster crowing.  I edited it in Photoshop.  It has been cropped.  I also used the healing patch tool in the top right corner to get rid of some animal droppings.  I also used curves to lighten some of the rooster feathers.  Then I sharpened the image.

Cheers!