Wild Goats

A few weeks ago I posted an image in the gallery of a wild goat, which are a fairly common site in and around the village.

The following are links to a few more taken that evening.

All shot with the DA 55-300.

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Regards
Adrian

I like the first and second images best, great depth of field and a lovely background.

I agree about the DOF but are any of them sharp enough? If the originals are no better I would sigh, work out why they weren't sharp (camera shake perhaps) and bin them I'm afraid. With a very heavy heart though as they use DOF and colour well.

Mike

I'd have to agree about the camera shake Adrian. Looking at the exif you're shooting at 300mm at around 1/50 of a second. I know you have SR to help but it doesn't work miracles. You'd have been better pushing the iso up a little more, I'd rather have sharp but noisier images to work with.

At 300mm I'd practice your handholding technique & try and stick to 1/200 & faster even with SR on.

I didn't realise it was 1/50th - I'd try using a cheap monopod and see how you get on but as RR says 1/200th or better is best.

Some characters you have encountered, Adrian. The otherwise nice portraits lack sharpness, though.

I second Mike's idea of using a Monopod.

I think Mike's right. It's a shame as the contrast is so good, as is colour and you've framed them so nicely. The camera seemes to have "locked on" all right so it must be camera shake. Must be worth another go, though.

First of all many thanks for the comments and excellent advice, greatly appreciated.

Excuse the pun, but I do have a soft spot for these creatures and this set On the evening increasing the ISO would have been the best course, I presume, and with the Kx great results should still be had.

One of my main problems with shooting these was the location, and my lack of height (all of 5"4 ).

I was stood in a steep-ish field, with the goats higher-up to my right. Separating us was a stone wall about a foot deep. The closer I crawled up then the higher the wall became, so add to the equation being vertically challenged, stretching slightly and zooming at 300m.

In a funny way the stone wall was both my ally and hindrance; without it I would never have got that close without scaring them away.

Unfortunately under these circumstances any type of support wouldn't have been of aid (an orange box to stand on, perhaps ).

I think the image added to the gallery was one of the better ones
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Again thanks for all your advice.

Regards
Adrian