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Posted: **Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:15 am**

A few bird shots from a local lagoon.

Comments/suggestions please. I'm still struggling with this birding stuff.

f/9, 1/100, 400mm, SB-800, handheld

f/9, 1/640, 400mm, handheld

f/9, 1/500, 400mm SB-800, handheld

Posted: **Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:31 am**

Actually I think that if this is you struggling then I would love to see the images where you aren't....
They are good, colours, compostion, sharpness etc I can't see anything to complain about at all..and I'm a women so thats really saying something...*wink*

Posted: **Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:38 am**

Have to agree with Bindii here, Cards. Ripper shots! A little hot highlight on the back feathers in the first one but what a magic composition. Great stuff.

Posted: **Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:54 am**

The birds in flight are slightly 'soft' looking - if this is what you mean by struggling - I think you need to prioritise shutter speed more on the moving photos.

I see they are at f9 - if you are doing this for sharpness, you lose a lot more from motion blur. However it does help with DOF.

Try around f4/f6 and shutter speeds faster than 1/1000.

You can fix up the sharpness in PP.

Posted: **Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:02 pm**

Nice compositions GC. Cheers, Mick

Posted: **Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:04 pm**

As Simon and Bindii say, if these are showing that you're struggling, I'm really looking forward to seeing some examples of your competence.

I must say that I really love the third of these: it just screams at me "I can fly! I can fly!" while all the while looking exactly as if it cannot.

Great timing, great capture.

Posted: **Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:29 pm**

If you are struggling with shots like these I like to see some of your : Good ones

The third one is tops, great timing
NeoN

Posted: **Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:04 pm**

As far as these three images is concerned, I prefer the first one because it has a stronger composition or perhaps I should say that it has more elements for the eyes to see, but all of them are very good

Posted: **Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:41 pm**

Thanks for the comments/suggestions.

Although these shots may be OK, in general I had trouble with blown highlights, general exposure and blur.

These 3 were the better ones out of a fairly average set of photos.

As Justin mentioned I think I need to watch the shutter speed for flying shots. I also need more practice handholding longish lenses.

Posted: **Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:55 pm**

Very nice, especially #1

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