assignment #1, oct 15

ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
edited October 16, 2005 in Wildlife
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Wood Stork


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Egrets below:

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photography by ginger

10/15/2005

full frame as shot

(you all knew I wasn't really going to sleep w/o checking to see if I had anything, didn't you. Well, I was, but it was really too late)

Are these acceptable, or do they need to actually be landscapes.

I like the storks as they are "placed" yet they still stand out. It is not
too busy.

The egrets to me is design photography, a form I like a lot.

g
After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.

Comments

  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2005
    A huge improvement over you 300mm from where i sit G. It locks on to a flying bird so well.

    Your wood stork is almost as ugly as our sacred ibis. That grass colour is a great background for the shots.
  • iceman17iceman17 Registered Users Posts: 246 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2005
    Great work Ginger,in #2 I can see green in the wing,I didn't know these birds were that colorful.Lovely egret shot.thumb.gifthumb.gifthumb.gif ...ice
    I took a picture once
    but they made me give it back.
  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2005
    1st and 2nd work well thumb.gif
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  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited October 16, 2005
    I am in with #2 the first and second are all most the same shot but 2 is better and beats my peli:cry as far as the challenge :D this assignmet is made for your landscape shots G thumb.gif so that about your stork eek7.gif
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 16, 2005
    Excellent Ginger. You got the birds and you placed them in a setting. Good exposures, sharp, fine details, just very good captures.

    You know I'm going to bug you about the composition. These would be stronger if the subjects weren't so centered. I know from experience that its hard not to center a subject in flight (I do it all the time). What works for me is to start tracking them before they get to where I want to shoot them. As they get to about where I want them I try to snap a series of shots. I end up with lots of culls but the few keepers are worth the effort.
    Harry
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited October 16, 2005
    Thanks everyone!

    Humungus, I did take a nap and didn't respond to you earlier, but I thought about it.

    Yes, I love the 400, much more than the 300, yet I did not feel a learning curve or anything, I just picked it up, started taking the photo with it.

    I took off the protective UV filter to take a shot of something, didn't put it back on. I worry about the glass getting hurt, yet it is so tempting to leave it off that I have been. Found a couple of lens caps, try to put them on the lens when not using it.

    But, Gus, here is what is funny, to me anyway. Everyone goes on about my photography improving with the 400. It was you mentioning the lock you get with the 400, on a moving object that made me realize something.

    I discovered al servo at about the same time as I got that lens. That is what is so hard about this "business". I keep saying that people don't know what I don't know...........and this is an example.

    I discovered this thing on the Canon body, so it is not the lens per se, by reading a thread just in passing that had nothing to do with me. I happened to notice that al servo kept being mentioned and it seemed to be "speaking" to me. When I got a chance I looked it up in the manual. Yup, I am just learning it. And no wonder I couldn't shoot birds in flight easily for the first year, rolleyes1.gif . I still can't shoot them worth a darn if not in al servo mode.

    What kills me is when I am in the wrong one, forget. I think I have a lock on the bird and I don't. They are only really good in al servo. On the other hand, going back and forth is still new to me, so I try shooting things in al servo that definitely shouldn't be. That is a very sensitive mode. Move the lens a bit, it changes the setting.

    But I did think that was funny. I am sure that my discovery of the al servo mode makes that lens look even "better" better than it is, though it IS definitely a great lens, IMO.

    ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited October 16, 2005
    Iceman, I wondered about the green in the wing, too. It came out of the camera like that. I actually tried a bit to get rid of it.

    It was getting closer to noon by the time I took that shot. The birds started moving, ie, flying. I don't know if the stronger sun brought out the green, whether it is there, whether it is an artifact. I do know that it wants to be there, smile.

    ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
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