On this shot I was doing everything wrong. I had the camera and lens set up for a close focus shot of an early wild flower bloom, (maximum DOF with the slowest shutter speed I though I could reasonably hand hold). I was just beginning to compose the shot when there was a horrendous squawking and excited quacking from down stream. I immediately brought the camera around to see a male Mallard being chased by another, in a territorial dispute. I got off three "quick" shots while panning on the lead duck as he finally made his escape by becoming airborne. All at 1/40 sec, and ~200mm. None in particularly good focus. Well on further reflection I decided that this one seems to work well as kind of an abstract. I cropped it a bit to improve the composition. So here it is:
<http://www.mindspring.com/~distilfink/PESO%20--%20mallardescape.html> Equipment: Pentax *ist-Ds/smc Pentax F 70-210mm f4.0~5.6 As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored. -- Vote for Cthulhu. Why settle for a lesser evil... -- Dr. Jerry Pournelle -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
