female merganser
Feb 17, 2013 20:17:31 #
Feb 17, 2013 22:29:41 #
Feb 18, 2013 02:45:57 #
Birdguide wrote:
It makes it hard to tell if it's in focus or not sometimes, thanks for looking.Love her punk hairdo.
Feb 18, 2013 17:22:16 #
Successful nature photographers tell us that it is critical to have insect, bird, or animal eyes in focus.
Upon download and enlargement, the water ripples behind your bird are in focus, but not the bird's head nor eyes.
Exif data states: ISO 400, 1/250-sec at f/6.3. Shutter duration is short enough to freeze subject movement, but DoF is behind subject.
Upon download and enlargement, the water ripples behind your bird are in focus, but not the bird's head nor eyes.
Exif data states: ISO 400, 1/250-sec at f/6.3. Shutter duration is short enough to freeze subject movement, but DoF is behind subject.
Feb 18, 2013 18:49:33 #
Feb 18, 2013 22:21:18 #
Nikonian72 has pointed out the problem with focus. You should be using single point AF or if your camera suports it just a small cluster of points. this is so that you can be precise about what you are focusing on. In the case of birds, it must be the eye. Even with sinngle point AF, it can be difficult to get proper focus with birds on the water as they are moving about by swimming and with current and wave action. Tracking focus is a must in these situations.
Mergansers can be hard to get close enough to to take good photos. You've done well in that regard. Your exposure is fine, despite it being a dull day. Keep working on it, you will improve and most importantly, have fun!
Mergansers can be hard to get close enough to to take good photos. You've done well in that regard. Your exposure is fine, despite it being a dull day. Keep working on it, you will improve and most importantly, have fun!
Feb 19, 2013 00:15:30 #
Nikonian72 wrote:
I'll try to remember that, thanks for the comment.Successful nature photographers tell us that it is critical to have insect, bird, or animal eyes in focus.
Feb 19, 2013 00:16:52 #
Feb 19, 2013 00:19:03 #
birdpix wrote:
I'll try working on that, it seems like mergansers are real hard to sneak up on. Thanks for looking and comments.Mergansers can be hard to get close enough to to take good photos. You've done well in that regard. Your exposure is fine, despite it being a dull day. Keep working on it, you will improve and most importantly, have fun!
Feb 20, 2013 08:00:24 #
Nikonian72 wrote:
Successful nature photographers tell us that it is critical to have insect, bird, or animal eyes in focus.
Upon download and enlargement, the water ripples behind your bird are in focus, but not the bird's head nor eyes.
Exif data states: ISO 400, 1/250-sec at f/6.3. Shutter duration is short enough to freeze subject movement, but DoF is behind subject.
Upon download and enlargement, the water ripples behind your bird are in focus, but not the bird's head nor eyes.
Exif data states: ISO 400, 1/250-sec at f/6.3. Shutter duration is short enough to freeze subject movement, but DoF is behind subject.
I'm going to disagree with your statement that a shutter speed of 250 is adequate to freeze subject movement in this image. That bird looks like it was moving pretty good through the water and the photographer was likely panning along with it causing additional lens shake.
I expect in a case like this a shutter speed above 500 minimum would be safer.
The lighting does not look very good so that would require an increase in ISO which is not ideal but either you do what you need to do to get the shot or you come back another day when the light is better.
On a seperate but related note, I don't think any part of this image is truly in focus.
Feb 27, 2013 09:39:22 #
Feb 27, 2013 10:04:57 #
I just saw some yesterday. they seem like a hard duck to photograph, thanks for looking and nice shot.
brentj38 wrote:
i took this in montana i think the hair is cool
Feb 27, 2013 10:18:27 #
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