On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 05:49:56AM -0700, Jack Davis wrote: > I'd be very pleased to have achieved such sharp overall focus as this. Very > well done!
I'm not sure I can take much of the credit for the focus. That's the technology at work - I'm not fast enough to keep the bird in frame, let alone try to focus manually as well. The K-5 is set to full auto-focus (using all AF points), and I'm using TAv or Manual so I get to pick the aperture (f8 to get at least a little depth of field) as well as the shutter speed (to control the blurring of the wings). And, of course, you folks only see the successful shot. I've got another 30 frames from that session, of which one (or, at a stretch, two) I'd consider showing to you. The rest simply serve to show me what I'm doing wrong, and that even when everything else is right the wings beat so fast that getting the wings in a reasonable pose is simply a matter of luck. > I'm certain you don't need my "background" comments. :) I don't get too much to choose from. I've got some shots against empty sky (uninteresting, and usually overexposed), some with a distracting bright red birdfeeder visible in the frame, and some with the house wall and/or the roof overhang as background. It's not ideal - I'd much prefer a more natural setting - but you have to take what you get. At least the bird stands out more that it would against a background comprised mostly of foliage. -- 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.
