On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 03:06:22PM -0500, Ken Waller wrote: > I much prefer the second or sixth image. With the second I'd want to > see him looking into the frame instead of out of it - you have a > good pose and a catchlight in the eye in both the second and the > sixth.
Thanks for the feedback. Even at 500mm there was a lot of extra room in the frame so I just centered the bird and used the center autofocus point then did my composition when I cropped, so I can easily recompose with the bird further to the right in the frame. > > Kenneth Waller > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Colen" <[email protected]> > Subject: Sparrows, now at twice the focal length! > > > >I brought the bigma to work today. Using what I learned on Friday, > >plus a lens with twice the max focal length (500 vs 250mm), I took far > >fewer frames, but I think the results were a lot better. > > > >I think that artistically, this is the best of the lot: > >http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/11526987596/ > > > >Here is today's set of 16: > >http://www.fluidr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157638969196746/ > > > >And for those that want to do a side by side of the tamron 18-250 > >versus the sigma 50-500, these are the ones I shot last week > >http://www.fluidr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157638889151025/ > > > >Observations: > >Even in these days of ridiculously high resolution sensors, > >focal length matters. > > > >Particularly at high resolution on my big monitor, a few of the photos > >looked just a bit rough in the noise department. It turns out that > >they were shot at ISO 6400. The twenty first century has done some > >very good things for photography. > > > >Even so, I really should have used my monopod so that I could have > >dropped the shutter speed and gotten more depth of field or a lower > >ISO. > > > >-- > >Larry Colen [email protected] > >http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
