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Martin .
{K:24957} 7/18/2005
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Hey Mary Sue,
This is not a bad capture at all, just a little soft. I can shoot at 60, or 125 easy with a 200mm focal length using a 35mm Camera... But not a digital...
Just remember that your shooting digital, so a 200mm X 1.6 equals 320mm in a 135 format. Nobody I know can shoot at 1/60 with a 320mm focal length without a tripod and it not being a little soft, even with image stabilization turned on... Also something I have learned is the image stabilization only works with vertical movement, so you can pan with your tripod horizontal and still get the desired effect...
A 1/125 shutter speed would have done it, but @ 200mm on this lens you were all the way down to 5.6. In conclusion your ISO could have been set to
400 and you could have got a 1/125 shutter with proper exposure, I think... (lol)
I always forget that I can change the ISO, since this is my 1st digital, but with that said I think digital is much more forgiving than film when it comes to ISO settings. Personally I hardly ever shoot with anything above ISO 125 while using film...
I'm still learning, so please take my advice with a grain of salt... (lol)
My Best,
Jr. Martin
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Sudhir K. Reddy
{K:7583} 12/21/2004
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Very good attempt here! Since you asked... this looks like a Black Capped Chickadee. You don't need a bird book, just use google.com instead and enjoy backyard birding :0)!!
http://birds.cornell.edu/bow/bcch/
http://www.jeannieshouse.com/aviary/carolinawren/carolina_wren.html
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Shiv Kumar Surya
{K:17362} 12/9/2004
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Wonderful capture. Very lovely.
Regarsd,
'Surya'
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Kim Culbert
{K:37070} 11/26/2004
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Great bg colour to really make this little guy stand out. I think I read somewhere that when you're taking pics of moving objects you should always try to have your shutter speed at least (ideally higher) the setting of your focal length. (ie. for this image you would want a shutter speed of 1/250 if you were zoomed to 250mm)
It looks like he's giving you "the look".
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Bob Jarman
{K:3145} 11/23/2004
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yup you sure did MS. The shot needs a faster shutter or a tripod or both and a fill flash to bring out some detail in the bird. I am not an expert on birds, but I think it is a nuthatch
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Gustav Miller
{K:309} 11/22/2004
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nice bird image. Unfortunately it is NOT sharp. Suggest MANUAL focusing on the bird and ofcourse the use of a tripod if possible....pictures of birds are certaily not easy to take. I take it that you have used the 300mm focal distance of your lens. This means you did actually take the picture with 480mm focal distance(Canon 10D x1.6)
Regards,
Gustav
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