Hello Shel, Interesting first attempt. Quite a mix of sharpness and motion blur. Certainly not a cliche shot, but not particularly appealing. Kind of like, viewing it once is interesting, but not something I would view over and over. I applaud your desire to do something beyond the usual.
-- Best regards, Bruce Saturday, June 24, 2006, 3:16:57 PM, you wrote: SB> Hi gang, SB> This morning I decided to try my unsteady hand at bird photography. One of SB> the big objections I have with bird pics is that so many of them, SB> regardless of how well executed they are, are rehashes of the same photo - SB> a bird sitting on a branch with a blurred background. They can be great, SB> showing wonderful detail, and showing off the technical excellence of long SB> glass, auto focus, and perhaps even fast frame rates. However, I wanted to SB> try something different. SB> Birds are often fast moving, creatures of action, but they can also be SB> creatures of habit. The various jays at my friend Zeo's house come by for SB> peanuts, so this morning a few peanuts were laid out, and I got close with SB> an old manual focus lens, slipped the DS into manual mode, and went at it SB> hand held. So, for better or for worse, here's my first bird picture. SB> http://home.earthlink.net/~morepix/Birds/missed.html SB> istDS, 1/250 sec, f/4.0, K135/2.5 hand held SB> Comments, crits welcome ... SB> Shel -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
