there is a certain look to a plain blue sky, but i think a split tone of
ocean and sky would be more interesting. doing that needed a different kind
of day to shoot it. frankly, when shooting birds the way i normally do, it
would have been wide open and no attempt at DOF at all, so i would have
gotten slightly motion blurred birds and pretty much blurred background. for
a large flock like that, i think the highly motion blurred birds works
better.
Herb....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: PESO - Sanderlings in flight
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....
