I like it ann P. J. Alling wrote:
>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. > > > -- 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.
