A day out with the camera:
Paul Iddon
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The winter light in England is not quite so pure especially for wildlife. So some of these were harder to get than some, and I can't wait to get some light for birds in the summer months over here.
There are a couple of candid street photography shots, "Cooking" and "Wraps and Fags - No Thanks!"
One is of a busker, setting up for the day (note his can of Cider!) and a single exposure (no HDR) inside an arcade (Millers Arcade in Preston) with a couple of chaps have a sit down/rest.
Then the wildlife ones are of cormorants which were 250 yards from the bird hide, hand held with a 1.4x extender on the Bigma (so that's 1120mm) - a blue tit in the tree tops at the sunniest part of the day this morning, both taken at a nature reserve in Preston.
Then the last two at the River Brock on the outskirts of the city - the area is known as Brock Bottoms (it's in a valley) - the first a Great Tit waiting it's turn at the feeding station for the Nuthatch to finish, and then my shot of the day, a Dipper, a bird I have only ever seen at Brock, but this was taken at all the wrong settings, as I was in dull woodlands, with the camera set at widest aperture (f/6.3) but at ISO 100 and at just 1/30sec HAND HELD!!! The dipper was some distance away, and is only around 7 inches in size, so I am quite pleased with the result. Wat until summer...
Paul.
There are a couple of candid street photography shots, "Cooking" and "Wraps and Fags - No Thanks!"
One is of a busker, setting up for the day (note his can of Cider!) and a single exposure (no HDR) inside an arcade (Millers Arcade in Preston) with a couple of chaps have a sit down/rest.
Then the wildlife ones are of cormorants which were 250 yards from the bird hide, hand held with a 1.4x extender on the Bigma (so that's 1120mm) - a blue tit in the tree tops at the sunniest part of the day this morning, both taken at a nature reserve in Preston.
Then the last two at the River Brock on the outskirts of the city - the area is known as Brock Bottoms (it's in a valley) - the first a Great Tit waiting it's turn at the feeding station for the Nuthatch to finish, and then my shot of the day, a Dipper, a bird I have only ever seen at Brock, but this was taken at all the wrong settings, as I was in dull woodlands, with the camera set at widest aperture (f/6.3) but at ISO 100 and at just 1/30sec HAND HELD!!! The dipper was some distance away, and is only around 7 inches in size, so I am quite pleased with the result. Wat until summer...
Paul.
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I did wonder if that would take a tighter crop.
Paul.
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There's often a tendency (imo) to want to fill the frame with subject to a greater rather than lesser degree - show off every last bit of dust on each individual feather / hair whatever ... all in glorious high contrast, heavily saturated col etc ... but whether this always makes for a better 'picture' is open to debate imo ... as opposed to something that's better composed and a bit 'moodier' - as opposed to a book ID image (as such, btw, I'd slightly question your comments about waiting for light in the summer
Far better bods than I at one well known site have decided on having a 'subject small in frame' section ... so go figure
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