Posted by John Robinson on April 23, 2008 at 5:33 AM
House Sparrow.
First time back in the pool hide for a while. Not much happened ,but nice to see these hanging on around the place.
D200 Sigma 100-300 mm
ISO640
125 th sec f8
Spot metering,conrast down.
Ev down one stop
Cheers
JohnR
Posted by John Chapman on April 23, 2008 at 5:37 AM
Nice shot John of a beautiful bird.
John.
Posted by Paul Inglis on April 23, 2008 at 5:53 AM
Hi John,
Very nice capture! I've been trying to get a clean shot of one of these for weeks now!
Posted by Andy Astbury on April 23, 2008 at 7:02 AM
My favourite LBJ John - very nice to see the markings on his back
Most of the bird looks like it is in sharp focus, just the tail is getting a bit soft. Getting sufficient depth of field with the subject large in the frame like this is a real challenge. I would be interested to learn a little more about technical aspects here; is this the full frame, and is this shot at minimum focusing distance using 300mm?
However it was shot, you succeeded in producing a very attractive image. Nice work.
Posted by John Robinson on April 23, 2008 at 8:54 AM
Thanks all
Phil The cropped image is2857x1981 Uncropped would be 3872x1981 I,m no good at maths but is that about 70% of the original? The nearest focus point on the pool is about10 inches in front of this bird. That front edge of the pool is about 6 ft from the hide. I,ve found in recent years that its better to rack out a bit and go for the smaller image (Concerning your DOF comment ) A lot of my stuff is done at around the 200 -250mm mark
In my opinion people often try to get the biggest posible image of the bird which is understandable I suppose.
Hope that helps.
Cheers
John
Posted by eric weight on April 23, 2008 at 12:19 PM
Lovely john,
I like the way your subjects stand out without losing the background - best of both worlds for me. Eric
Discussion
13 repliesFirst time back in the pool hide for a while. Not much happened ,but nice to see these hanging on around the place.
D200 Sigma 100-300 mm
ISO640
125 th sec f8
Spot metering,conrast down.
Ev down one stop
Cheers
JohnR
John.
Very nice capture! I've been trying to get a clean shot of one of these for weeks now!
However it was shot, you succeeded in producing a very attractive image. Nice work.
Another very nice image in your pool series. Although it is a LBJ, they are very attractive!
Regards
Rob
Dave
Phil The cropped image is2857x1981 Uncropped would be 3872x1981 I,m no good at maths but is that about 70% of the original? The nearest focus point on the pool is about10 inches in front of this bird. That front edge of the pool is about 6 ft from the hide. I,ve found in recent years that its better to rack out a bit and go for the smaller image (Concerning your DOF comment ) A lot of my stuff is done at around the 200 -250mm mark
In my opinion people often try to get the biggest posible image of the bird which is understandable I suppose.
Hope that helps.
Cheers
John
I like the way your subjects stand out without losing the background - best of both worlds for me.
Another very nice pool image. I particularly like the ripples and the complementary shades in the background
Best regards,
Austin