I can see why you'd be pleased with that! I can't imagine even
trying to focus on a bird's eye zoomed out that far. I have a 2x
teleconverter that I bought specifically for shooting birds, but haven't
yet gotten used to using that much reach. After shooting for months
with the 50-200 kit lens at a fairly short distance, I found myself WAY
overcompensating when I tried to pan. I still haven't tried birding
with my 70-300, which I got fairly late in the summer, but I hope to
give it a good workout this fall and winter. The birds just seemed to
quit coming around the feeders around mid-July this year.
'Course, it was so hot and dry, I don't think they wanted to be out
there any more than I did. Had a really brutal summer this year --
about six solid weeks of 95-105 temps, and no rain to speak of from
mid-July to late August. I hardly took a shot in that time. :-\
On 10/7/2010 12:04 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
I have a photo of a Gull on the wing somewhere, taken on film.
Pentax LX w f1.7x converter, and F 70-210 f4~5.6 racked out to 357mm,
wide open (which is roughly f11). So a long slowish lens shooting a
moving bird in the air, I was pretty pleased with it. The image was
fairly sharp, but it was obvious that I'd nailed focus on the birds
trailing talons, while it's eye was just a bit fuzzy. I seem to have
lost the scan and the image is no longer on the web, otherwise I'd
post a link...
On 10/7/2010 12:04 AM, Walter Gilbert wrote:
Thanks, P.J.
I noticed the halo almost immediately after I'd sent the link.
(Funny how that seems to happen just about every time I post a link
to the list.) There's something magical about the process of sending
links to my photos that reveals heretofore unseen flaws to me.
The worst part is that, at least in my hands, any attempt to fix the
flaw that suddenly reveals itself is damn near guaranteed to ruin the
entire image. So, this sort of hearkens back to the question about
what to keep and what to trash: this being a shot that I stick back
in the pile for a little while longer, until I've learned enough to
fix it without destroying the whole thing.
So, for now, it's a keeper, but not yet a showpiece.
-- Walt
On 10/6/2010 4:55 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
There's still a bit of halo around the bird, and focus seems to be
on the far wing. Still in all it's a very nice attempt.
On 10/6/2010 2:06 PM, Walter Gilbert wrote:
After posting the question regarding what images to keep vs. which
to delete, I thought I'd post this one ... the first in-flight
capture of a bird I ever took. This is the one that got me hooked
on it, and what made me immediately fall in love with my K-x. It
remains one of my favorites among all the photos I've taken.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/walt_gilbert/5057232937/
K-x, DA L 50-200mm, f/5.6, ISO 800, 1/6000, Shutter Priority
Unfortunately, when I resized it it stripped all the XIF data out,
but fortunately (thanks to Picasa) I still have the original file.
Comments, critiques, and hagiographic commentary are, of course,
welcome.
-- Walt
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