Hi gang, This morning I decided to try my unsteady hand at bird photography. One of the big objections I have with bird pics is that so many of them, regardless of how well executed they are, are rehashes of the same photo - a bird sitting on a branch with a blurred background. They can be great, showing wonderful detail, and showing off the technical excellence of long glass, auto focus, and perhaps even fast frame rates. However, I wanted to try something different.
Birds are often fast moving, creatures of action, but they can also be creatures of habit. The various jays at my friend Zeo's house come by for peanuts, so this morning a few peanuts were laid out, and I got close with an old manual focus lens, slipped the DS into manual mode, and went at it hand held. So, for better or for worse, here's my first bird picture. http://home.earthlink.net/~morepix/Birds/missed.html istDS, 1/250 sec, f/4.0, K135/2.5 hand held Comments, crits welcome ... Shel -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
