The bird is abit soft to me and the reason is more than likely the slow shutter speed and your handholding of the 500mm. Using a tripod generally, and in particular in these situations would greatly improve your hit rate, especially with such a long lens.
Hi Barry,
Sweet looking bird. You know after resizing for the web you need to sharpen again, so a touch more unsharp mask. I would have given some room for the tail, otherwise a nice shot. Pretty impressive handholding a 500mm and getting sharp shots at 1/50th.
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9 repliesThe only way I can learn is to keep trying so that's just what I'm doing here is another attempt.
Canon 350D 500mm handheld f/6.5 1/50th sec
Critique and comments advice most welcome.
Thanks
Barry
A bird I would love to have at my feeders.
The bird is abit soft to me and the reason is more than likely the slow shutter speed and your handholding of the 500mm. Using a tripod generally, and in particular in these situations would greatly improve your hit rate, especially with such a long lens.
Hope that helps
Regards Chris.
Sweet looking bird. You know after resizing for the web you need to sharpen again, so a touch more unsharp mask. I would have given some room for the tail, otherwise a nice shot. Pretty impressive handholding a 500mm and getting sharp shots at 1/50th.
Tim
As said your post's looks "soft", but with the aid of atouch of USM it looks spot on
Handheld 500mm at 1/50th, you must be a surgeon with hands that steady
Tony