Posted by Mike Acreman on February 4, 2010 at 9:57 AM
taken last evening near my home in taunton canon 40d sigma 18-200 lense 1/300sec/f4.5/ iso400
Posted by Mike Smith on February 4, 2010 at 12:07 PM
Jellyfish ahoy......
I have been pondering why all the foreground in your your images to date look slightly blurred and I think the problem is that your are panning to follow the Starlings with a shutter speed insufficient to freeze the camera movement.
You might want to try and lift the shutter speed even more if you are keeping foreground detail in the frame, or go the other extreme and blur the forground even more, but I suspect your flock hit rate will deteriorate. I find the present fuzziness is "half way house" and slightly distracting.
The B&W treatment works well here other than the slight blurring nit.
Posted by John Chapman on February 4, 2010 at 12:30 PM
Hi Mike, a very nice shot.
Posted by Guy Rogers on February 4, 2010 at 3:03 PM
Hello Mike.
Now I like this one with the strengh of the starlings as the main part of the image and slowly fade into the right corner which I think makes for a strong composition.
Posted by Philip Newman on February 5, 2010 at 2:16 PM
Discussion
4 repliesI have been pondering why all the foreground in your your images to date look slightly blurred and I think the problem is that your are panning to follow the Starlings with a shutter speed insufficient to freeze the camera movement.
You might want to try and lift the shutter speed even more if you are keeping foreground detail in the frame, or go the other extreme and blur the forground even more, but I suspect your flock hit rate will deteriorate. I find the present fuzziness is "half way house" and slightly distracting.
The B&W treatment works well here other than the slight blurring nit.
Now I like this one with the strengh of the starlings as the main part of the image and slowly fade into the right corner which I think makes for a strong composition.