Posted by Cheryl Surry on May 12, 2009 at 10:14 AM
Thought there might be an influx of red kite shots over the next few days, but also thought I'd try one of my slow shutter speed ones on you all.
1/100th
f/8
ISO 100
Cropped for composition (and to remove a patch of bland sky that did not show the movement as there was nothing to see) and had to add a small piece to the very bottom of the canvas.
Been playing with shutter speeds between 1/80th and 1/125th. In future I shall be sticking between 1/100th and 1/125th as definitely more keepers at those shutter speeds.
Interesting Cheryl and a different view point on how to capture the moment.
BTW what camera & lens were you using?
Steve
Posted by Cheryl Surry on May 12, 2009 at 10:41 AM
Nikon D3 with 500mm. I've resized this from an upload on another website and the sharpness on the eye has been lost a little. Must remember to process one for NPN specifically.
Gear mounted on Gitzo 3540 with full Wimberley head.
this is a great effort as it's difficult to get the right shutter speed and have "keepers" - you pulled this off well -
cheers
Colin
Posted by Andy Astbury on May 12, 2009 at 11:30 AM
Works for me Cheryl
You can't expect to get it right every frame no matter what technique you use, but you've done really well here, so instead of abandoning slow speeds I'd practice and hone your technique even more - perfecting a technique will increase the number of keepers
Nice one.
Posted by Cheryl Surry on May 12, 2009 at 11:33 AM
Not abandoning the technique, rather addicted to it now. Just have made notes from the previous sessions and at the moment my panning technique is not good enough for 1/80th sec, so I'll be sticking to 1/100th - 1/125th.
I never abandon anything that can be improved upon, I'm too much of a perfectionist for that
Discussion
15 replies1/100th
f/8
ISO 100
Cropped for composition (and to remove a patch of bland sky that did not show the movement as there was nothing to see) and had to add a small piece to the very bottom of the canvas.
Been playing with shutter speeds between 1/80th and 1/125th. In future I shall be sticking between 1/100th and 1/125th as definitely more keepers at those shutter speeds.
BTW what camera & lens were you using?
Steve
Gear mounted on Gitzo 3540 with full Wimberley head.
Thanks for the comments,
Cheers,
Chris
cheers
Colin
You can't expect to get it right every frame no matter what technique you use, but you've done really well here, so instead of abandoning slow speeds I'd practice and hone your technique even more - perfecting a technique will increase the number of keepers
Nice one.
I never abandon anything that can be improved upon, I'm too much of a perfectionist for that
Much to the annoyance of many that know me
Lee
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Not sure when I will get back to Gigrin this year, next planned trip (apart from quick trips to local NR) is the Farnes in June.
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