Gull in flight.
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Posted 24/07/2016 - 12:45
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1stEverPentax wrote:
As nobody else has commented i'll make a contribution although BIF are not really my speciality...not the feathered variety anyway.
Initial impression is that the seagull is nicely caught in the centre of the image and is reasonably sharp and motion reasonably frozen. Biggest weakness I could identify is that the bird is too small in the overall frame...almost looks as though you just happened to catch a passing seagull whilst photographing some foliage. I would have thought the bird needed to be at least twice that size.
Having got that lens myself and really liking it for general use and aircraft, the quality isn't really there to be able to crop a small object by +50-100% to increase its size relative to the rest of the image...if the bird was bigger to start with then things are more promising but unless you can get closer you'll always struggle with image quality when wanting to enlarge.
it might be worth trying some manual focussed shots as i've found that often these are sharper than the AF with practice although initially you may have very few 'keepers'. Most of my aircraft shots are taken manually or using the TAV program where you select shutter speed and aperture (F8-F11 for me) and let the camera auto select the ISO.
Anyway, those are just my initial thoughts...maybe a fully fledged BIF expert could comment more fully.
regards
Karlo
Thanks Karlo, I'll have a go at the TAV thingy. Your comments are appreciated.
As nobody else has commented i'll make a contribution although BIF are not really my speciality...not the feathered variety anyway.
Initial impression is that the seagull is nicely caught in the centre of the image and is reasonably sharp and motion reasonably frozen. Biggest weakness I could identify is that the bird is too small in the overall frame...almost looks as though you just happened to catch a passing seagull whilst photographing some foliage. I would have thought the bird needed to be at least twice that size.
Having got that lens myself and really liking it for general use and aircraft, the quality isn't really there to be able to crop a small object by +50-100% to increase its size relative to the rest of the image...if the bird was bigger to start with then things are more promising but unless you can get closer you'll always struggle with image quality when wanting to enlarge.
it might be worth trying some manual focussed shots as i've found that often these are sharper than the AF with practice although initially you may have very few 'keepers'. Most of my aircraft shots are taken manually or using the TAV program where you select shutter speed and aperture (F8-F11 for me) and let the camera auto select the ISO.
Anyway, those are just my initial thoughts...maybe a fully fledged BIF expert could comment more fully.
regards
Karlo
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Initial impression is that the seagull is nicely caught in the centre of the image and is reasonably sharp and motion reasonably frozen. Biggest weakness I could identify is that the bird is too small in the overall frame...almost looks as though you just happened to catch a passing seagull whilst photographing some foliage. I would have thought the bird needed to be at least twice that size.
Having got that lens myself and really liking it for general use and aircraft, the quality isn't really there to be able to crop a small object by +50-100% to increase its size relative to the rest of the image...if the bird was bigger to start with then things are more promising but unless you can get closer you'll always struggle with image quality when wanting to enlarge.
it might be worth trying some manual focussed shots as i've found that often these are sharper than the AF with practice although initially you may have very few 'keepers'. Most of my aircraft shots are taken manually or using the TAV program where you select shutter speed and aperture (F8-F11 for me) and let the camera auto select the ISO.
Anyway, those are just my initial thoughts...maybe a fully fledged BIF expert could comment more fully.
regards
Karlo