Excellent image Desmond Love that full reflection and how you included the water circles Would take just a bit of the top? Excellent !!!
Good question on the ISO Cheryl !!! Not sure what went on here but I have lost like this one. With constant light changes with the sun going behind the clouds I will go with the higher ISO rather than lower shutter speed when the light is dim.
As for high ISO, that's for getting a faster shutter speed. Most of the time when I see the yellowlegs or dowitcher in a pond, they move around almost constantly. No, they're not flying but they don't just stop and stand there. They're apparently lookinging for food. They'd stroll left and right, back and forth, and bobbing their head up and down. Sometimes' they're preening. If they're not doing any of that, they fly away from me...:)
Last edited by Desmond Chan; 10-01-2008 at 10:43 PM.
Very nice Desmond. I like the composition, the colors are superb, like the reflection, and the details on the bird. I do see just a slight trace of background noise in the green hues, possibly due to the high ISO setting...all in all; great job...:cool:
Unless the light is very bright, I wind up with a high ISO too. The noise from a high ISO is not as problematic as the noise from underexposure, I've found.
And yes, these little guys move around constantly bobbing their heads under the water for dinner. They are deceptively fast.
His eye looks sharp, has a catchlight. The water isn't bad - I especially like the surface of the water in front of the bird. I see the same noise that Al sees in the water behind the bird. Almost looks like subtle reflection spots that the sensor couldn't figure out what to do with??? Still trying to figure that kind of thing out, too.
Some Yellowleg
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