Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Sanderlings in flight, Sable Island, Canada
Here is the first of the images that I captured on Sable Island. This photo is of a group of Sanderlings in flight with surf in the background. I shot it using the panning technique with Al Servo focusing, thus trying my best to keep the birds in focus. It was shot at 1/100 at f20, ISO 200, focus length 300mm.
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Damian
Looks like a very interesting shot, with the sea forming nice "bands" and the birds falling neatly within one of the bands. However, it's such a small photo and the "enlarged" one is also so small that I can't tell anything about the focus etc. I know you want to protect your images on line as you sell them for a living, so can you use your watermark to allow a larger one to be posted?
Looking forward to the others...
Ivan
Hi Ivan,
The points you raise arw why I like the photo too. For some reason I shot at quite a low shutter speed and am not sure why. Sitting here I would have chosen a greater speed to increase the chance of getting those birds in a sharper focus. However, I am happy with the way the photo turned out.
I do have to be careful with putting large images on the web but I am willing to try the watermark technique again.
Will try to post more....
Damian
Without seeing a larger version, the blur is not enough - for my taste - to look like it's an intentional panning shot, so the effect is one of being close to sharp but not, and therefore looking slightly odd. If the birds are in focus, this saves it, but it's hard to see that. A very sharp, crisp image would have been very powerful, although this one has movement, both actual and implied.
Ivan
Because, for whatever thoughts were going through my head at the time, I shot at 1/100 sec the birds are not in focus. But that may be OK -to me, and this is without printing a large print- because of the sense of movement through flight.
They are a difficult subject to photo because they fly so damn fast and fly up and down the beach so you have to spend quite a bit of time with them to get the right shots.
Going to post another shot of them but in a different behaviour. To see what you think.
Damian
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