Artist's description:
These cute little quails run around everywhere in the Arizona desert. This photo is a composite of two shots taken in opposite directions on a mountaintop in the Phoenix area. The first was a shot of a quail in someone's front yard, taken with a Canon EOS 10D, 75 - 300 mm IS USM lens at 300 mm, f/5.6, 1/400 sec. Elements of that shot were silhouetted and superimposed over a shot in the other direction of the sunset, taken with the same camera and lens at 300 mm, f/11, 1/1250 sec. (Click here to learn more and to see "before" and "after" shots.)
Artist's technical assessment of the image quality:
Sharpness: excellent
Camera shake: none apparent
Digital noise: little/none
Compression artifact: n/a
Chromatic aberration: little/none
Distortion: none
Maximum acceptable enlargement: This image enlarges comfortably to 20x30 and beyond, with excellent sharpness and detail.
Image detail:
*These are swatches from the image when magnified to the indicated size, as viewed on the average 17" monitor at 1024x768 pixels. They show you the actual sharpness of the print that will hang on your wall. If you have a smaller monitor or have your monitor configured with more pixels, you should "imagine" these swatches a bit larger. Please note that compression artifact (including checkering and banding around higher contrast edges) may be evident as you view these images online. This is a compromise in jpeg images that makes them quicker to load on a web page. The printed image will not have these defects, unless noted under "Artist's technical assment of the image quality. (See "Compression artifact")."