Sorry for posting these rather poor photos but having found what could be a regular hunting field for a barn owl I need to discover what is going wrong; no point just deleting them if I can't decide what I should be doing! So if any one has any suggestions I would be grateful.
They were taken around 3:45 today so accept that the light wasn't great. I had 800 ISO set, too much noise if you go higher, and was using f5.6 on the 70-300L; camera is a 50D. IS was on. I used spot metering as yesterdays attempts hadn't worked well either and some were centre focus point others I went back to automatic selection. Some of the smaller ones were at the other end of the field so it might be the best I can hope for. Some of the problem will be my panning I guess but the shot at 1/640 I wouldn't have thought that was issue.
Anyway these are the photos:
1301_Barn Owl_036.jpg by Birdy574, on Flickr
1/100 sec, quite a way across the field
1301_Barn Owl_046.jpg by Birdy574, on Flickr
1/250 sec, This is full frame no crop.
1301_Barn Owl_051.jpg by Birdy574, on Flickr
1/640 sec. This is full frame no crop.
1301_Barn Owl_073.jpg by Birdy574, on Flickr
1/50. Too slow and too far away!
1301_Barn Owl_095.jpg by Birdy574, on Flickr
1/80. Too slow? and a large crop.
Might be that the conditions are just against getting a decent result, it may the user - but you will agree I've missed some good opportunities so any advice would be helpful.
Thanks
Andrew
They were taken around 3:45 today so accept that the light wasn't great. I had 800 ISO set, too much noise if you go higher, and was using f5.6 on the 70-300L; camera is a 50D. IS was on. I used spot metering as yesterdays attempts hadn't worked well either and some were centre focus point others I went back to automatic selection. Some of the smaller ones were at the other end of the field so it might be the best I can hope for. Some of the problem will be my panning I guess but the shot at 1/640 I wouldn't have thought that was issue.
Anyway these are the photos:
1301_Barn Owl_036.jpg by Birdy574, on Flickr
1/100 sec, quite a way across the field
1301_Barn Owl_046.jpg by Birdy574, on Flickr
1/250 sec, This is full frame no crop.
1301_Barn Owl_051.jpg by Birdy574, on Flickr
1/640 sec. This is full frame no crop.
1301_Barn Owl_073.jpg by Birdy574, on Flickr
1/50. Too slow and too far away!
1301_Barn Owl_095.jpg by Birdy574, on Flickr
1/80. Too slow? and a large crop.
Might be that the conditions are just against getting a decent result, it may the user - but you will agree I've missed some good opportunities so any advice would be helpful.
Thanks
Andrew
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