
Originally Posted by
Craig Brelsford
Kaus, I've been studying your work for several months now and I know you know what you're doing. Still, I'd like to ask: What would have happened if you'd stopped down a great deal, enough to get many of the gulls in focus? Would you have ended up with a distractingly distinct background? Not really, because your gulls dominate the frame. Would stopping down have decreased your ss to a dangerously low level? Not necessarily, because at F/7.1 you were only at ISO 400 and a very fast 1/2000s; I know these gulls were moving constantly, but I think that a shutter speed of 1/250s would have given you a few shots in which all or most of them were frozen. You also may have been able to up your ISO a bit. Had I been in your situation, I definitely would have used your specs; indeed, they'd have been my default. But I think I'd have also liked a few shots in which four or five of the gulls are sharp. Whaddya think?