"Stewart Robert Hinsley" <{$news$}@meden.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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| >| It was cropped down from 1600 to 800+ pixels, that's all. It looks better filling the PC
| >| screen, because the water around it was attractive, but as it stands it shows the bird in it's
| >| environment.
| >
| >I find that I can never get close enough for full resolution, frame
filling
| >shots, but I really, really wish I could! Nice photo, by the way Gordon, and I do like the water
| >around the bird.
| >
| Other than feral pigeons, peafowl and a few species of waterfowl (mute swans, Canada geese,
| mallards, tufted ducks, coots), most birds are difficult to photograph (except for the crowd with
| the huge zoom lenses); firstly the problem of getting close enough to them, secondly their habit
| of turning their backs on you, and thirdly (in the case of songbirds) their failure to stay still
| long enough.
|
| I've got over 800 avian photographs, but the number which are any good is probably under 50 - even
| when I've managed to get close enough to fill the frame, and get the bird to stay still enough
| that the image isn't blurred, there's the problems of poor composition.
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| Stewart Robert Hinsley
Yes, I've got plenty of close-ups of mallards, but not very many garden birds or the like. In total,
I've got nearly 200 photos of birds and ducks, but I've got a similar hit ratio to yourself. But one
day, I'll get a D-SLR and one of those long lenses, and I'll show Pat Bennet how it's done!
Ste
