Stephen Stephen
05-26-2008, 11:19 AM
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I've been travelling for work for the past couple of weeks so I've not had much time for photography. I got out twice on the weekend and ended creating with my first keeper images of a Barn Swallow.
Canon 40D, Sigma 50-500mm @ 500mm, F 8.0, ISO 400, 1/250. Handheld and cropped to about 60% of full frame. I chose not to use Fill Flash because I had spent over an hour waiting for these birds to land close to my vehicle which I was using as a blind. After all that time I didn't want to frighten them off.
I debated removing the large yellow and white blotches (blooming & ripe dandelions) but decided to leave them as I found them. I should have perhaps boosted the ISO and increased the DOF slightly as well but I'm still pleased to have my first keepers of this species.
I've been travelling for work for the past couple of weeks so I've not had much time for photography. I got out twice on the weekend and ended creating with my first keeper images of a Barn Swallow.
Canon 40D, Sigma 50-500mm @ 500mm, F 8.0, ISO 400, 1/250. Handheld and cropped to about 60% of full frame. I chose not to use Fill Flash because I had spent over an hour waiting for these birds to land close to my vehicle which I was using as a blind. After all that time I didn't want to frighten them off.
I debated removing the large yellow and white blotches (blooming & ripe dandelions) but decided to leave them as I found them. I should have perhaps boosted the ISO and increased the DOF slightly as well but I'm still pleased to have my first keepers of this species.