----- Original Message ----- From: "Shel Belinkoff" Subject: PESO - MIssed Opportunity
> Hi gang, > > This morning I decided to try my unsteady hand at bird photography. One > of > the big objections I have with bird pics is that so many of them, > regardless of how well executed they are, are rehashes of the same photo - > a bird sitting on a branch with a blurred background. They can be great, > showing wonderful detail, and showing off the technical excellence of long > glass, auto focus, and perhaps even fast frame rates. However, I wanted to > try something different. > > Birds are often fast moving, creatures of action, but they can also be > creatures of habit. The various jays at my friend Zeo's house come by for > peanuts, so this morning a few peanuts were laid out, and I got close with > an old manual focus lens, slipped the DS into manual mode, and went at it > hand held. So, for better or for worse, here's my first bird picture. > > http://home.earthlink.net/~morepix/Birds/missed.html > > istDS, 1/250 sec, f/4.0, K135/2.5 hand held > > Comments, crits welcome ... Street photogrpahy has gone to the birds, it seems. The bird appears to have noticed you, and isn't happy with you being there, that's for sure. The blurred wings are disturbing, both because they are unexpected in this genre, but also because they give the bird a rather deformed appearance. You could have gotten a faster shutter speed. I like the action, the nut is a bit low, but that's a quibble. It's an appropriately Belinkoffian approach to bird photogrpahy. I disagree in principal with your comment about not being able to do "serious" bird photography in an urban environment. Birds are a part of city life, I see no reason not to photograph them in their day to day street life, and in their occassional interactions with people. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
