Hello everyone, I went for a walk along the beach today to take pics of seagulls. I dont normally take bird pics as,
1, I dont think my camera is up to it, "cant get close enough"
2, I dont think im up to it.
Believe it or not this is the best bird photo I have taken ever, and its not that good. I decided to post this to show how good, your bird photo's are, most of them stunning, amazing and any other word that describes some of our members photographs. C&C always welcome, because Ive got a long way to go. It was blowing a gail today and I took the photo hand held, Ive cropped it, first ever post edit too. Ive put both versions for you to compare. thanks everyone. :? pip
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What camera/lens setup were you using?
zuzanne
Without knowing what you are using. it's rather hard to say anything, but a wild stab in the dark I would say that your ISO is too high. If you want them to appear closer you will need a longer lens, like a 200 mm or better.
zuzanne wrote:
What camera/lens setup were you using?
zuzanne
Hi zuzanne, its a fuji finepix s9600 bridge camera 10. 7x optical zoom :? pip
tramsey wrote:
Without knowing what you are using. it's rather hard to say anything, but a wild stab in the dark I would say that your ISO is too high. If you want them to appear closer you will need a longer lens, like a 200 mm or better.
Hi tramsey, im using a fuji finepix s9600 bridge camera 10. 7 optical zoom. I think my iso was set at 200 for this photo. :? pip
Bret
Loc: Dayton Ohio
Not a bad looking shot at all PIP...just need to be faster with the shutter...maybe crank the iso up to 400...you mite be surprised.
I just took a look at your camera on dpreview and it looks pretty decent. It shoots RAW and jpeg normal and fine. When mine looks like that it's either the subject is too far away or ISO is set too high. I don't know. Wait just a bit and someone that knows more about it then me will be along. Sorry
I found black headed gulls to be the tamest to photograph but it does of course depend where you are.
Just tie a loaf of bread to your head, they will come to you for some really good closeups!
MT Shooter wrote:
Just tie a loaf of bread to your head, they will come to you for some really good closeups!
Cool MT, I love it too :lol: :thumbup: pip
Bret wrote:
Not a bad looking shot at all PIP...just need to be faster with the shutter...maybe crank the iso up to 400...you mite be surprised.
Thanks Bret, will give that a go sometime this week :thumbup: pip
tramsey wrote:
I just took a look at your camera on dpreview and it looks pretty decent. It shoots RAW and jpeg normal and fine. When mine looks like that it's either the subject is too far away or ISO is set too high. I don't know. Wait just a bit and someone that knows more about it then me will be along. Sorry
Thanks tramsey, :thumbup: pip
oldmalky wrote:
I found black headed gulls to be the tamest to photograph but it does of course depend where you are.
They can get a bit vicious up here in the wild north :evil: :lol: :thumbup:
Erv
Loc: Medina Ohio
That is pretty good pip. A little more practice and you will start nailing them. You are not that far off.
Erv
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