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Post by Peterj on Jun 30, 2019 21:38:09 GMT
Patience is a virtue ... and of course no cost film a huge benefit!
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Post by Bailey on Jul 1, 2019 0:13:22 GMT
Nice shot Peter  And yes, ending up with a "money" shot nearly always takes a lot of patience and "no cost film" in action shot situations like this. I don't know if freezing the action was a priority at the time (I see the photo was taken in Oct. 2018) but if it was, a suggestion I would make is to consider bumping up the ISO to increase the shutter speed. I see you used aperture priority with f4 and ISO 100. Your camera calculated a shutter speed of 1/400s for the lighting at the time. 1/400s wasn't enough to freeze the action in this case. For this shot, if the ISO had been set to ISO 200 (1 stop from ISO 100) then the camera would have calculated a shutter speed of 1/800s, which may or may not have been enough to freeze the action. At ISO 200 or even 400, if you need to go that high to get a fast enough shutter speed, you shouldn't see any noise. Just my 2c worth. |
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Post by Peterj on Jul 1, 2019 1:30:17 GMT
Nice shot Peter And yes, ending up with a "money" shot nearly always takes a lot of patience and "no cost film" in action shot situations like this. I don't know if freezing the action was a priority at the time (I see the photo was taken in Oct. 2018) but if it was, a suggestion I would make is to consider bumping up the ISO to increase the shutter speed. I see you used aperture priority with f4 and ISO 100. Your camera calculated a shutter speed of 1/400s for the lighting at the time. 1/400s wasn't enough to freeze the action in this case. For this shot, if the ISO had been set to ISO 200 (1 stop from ISO 100) then the camera would have calculated a shutter speed of 1/800s, which may or may not have been enough to freeze the action. At ISO 200 or even 400, if you need to go that high to get a fast enough shutter speed, you shouldn't see any noise. Just my 2c worth. Thanks Bailey ... I'm a firm believer that small birds and helicopters in flight look more natural with wings blurred (helicopters have rotary wings).
I believe to freeze a hummer's wings 1/2000 or there about is required. |
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Post by Bailey on Jul 1, 2019 1:52:40 GMT
No problem Peter Whether someone chooses to totally freeze the action or not comes down to personal preference. Given that the human eye naturally tends to bounce off blurred elements and to be drawn to the sharp elements in an image, my preference is to have the parts of the image I would like the viewer to look at to be sharp. Normally I try to have the whole subject of the image to be sharp. For me personally, if the whole bird, including its tail, were sharp then the bird would still look totally natural to me because it would still be 100% clear that the bird was in flight. |
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