2009/5/5 Christian <[email protected]>: > The water is beautiful. Love the low-level. How did you shoot it? what > kind of support and location? Really gulls like the hooded, or here in the > US, the laughing gulls are actually pretty birds even if they are common and > well kinda pains-in-the-ass.
Support: Sachtler tripod with RRS 55mm ballhead and Wimberley Sidekick. Location: Lake Østensjøvannet. Small eutrophic lake in the 'burbs of Eastern Oslo. Has its own wikipedia page in English, even. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98stensj%C3%B8vannet How: I'm practicing movement and autofocus aiming. So basically I use f/8, ISO 400, continuous AF and press the button until the buffer fills up. :-) After one burst I note the start and end of the series. I take many series and evaluate on the PC back home. Yesterday saw 160 exposures from about 20 series. In all, 43 shots had acceptable (or better) focus. That's about one in four, which means I'm improving on birds sitting on water. My goal is one in three before attempting birds in flight. I may have a long way to go... Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- 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.
