----- Original Message ----- From: "Herb Chong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Christian, i find the background distracting from the birds. it is sharper > than the birds themselves. given the lighting and so on, i don't think that > you could shoot wider and still maintain the slow shutter speed, but that > would have made it work better. i figure a 3-stop ND filter would have done > it. otherwise, it would have to be a different kind of day where it wasn't > as bright. without the white waves in the background, i think the shot would > have worked very nicely. What would have worked is a plain blue sky. I realize that now but of course in the fleeting moment I wasn't able to direct the little bastards where to fly! :-) The camera was set in Av or M with f11 on purpose to try to eek out DOF while the birds were on the beach. There were several hunderd of them in a tight group and I was trying to get a tight group shot. Those images all sucked. But when they all took off all of a sudden I had no choice but to press the shutter release on instinct.... Christian > > > > http://home.mindspring.com/~c_skofteland/id35.html > > > > Thanks > > > > Christian > > > > > >
