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Meanwhile....there were the remains of a pigeon on the garage apron this morning, still relatively intact. i thought.......murphy's law will dictate that a red kite will land on it before I can get the camera etc.
However,this morning was a Dirty Harry day --- I was lucky -- not a kite but a sparrowhawk -probably the one that killed the pigeon and the others whose feathers were along the lane.
Making the coffee, I was looking out of the window --
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In the next shot, she is in the process of moving the meal. After I had taken these, my wife told me a red kite had been circling above....
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They're not brilliant - but once again shooting from the hip
Well caught Bob. She is a lovely bird.
I know what it’s like in these “quick grab the camera moments” …settings go out of the window to some extent. That’s why I have a custom setting for birds, ready for those moments, with the optimum fstop, shutter speed and iso set to auto.
At the risk of labouring the point, (hope you don’t mind) your choice of settings could have improved the image a lot more.
If you look at the exif below,
1. The shutter speed should be faster, even for a supposedly static bird. They still twitch their heads all the time!
I think 1/500 is the slowest for a bird …especially hand holding a 500mm lens.
2. You have the aperture set at f22. That’s far too small and IQ will have dropped off. Using f11 would be better and give you 2 stops for a faster shutter speed at the same ISO.
3. I may be misreading the exposure compensation bias but it looks like +0.6. That should be 0 …or -0.6 if it was your intention to avoid over exposure. The image is slightly over exposed.
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As mentioned before, you can “pull it back” by increasing the black 10-15% which gives it more punch. (See below)
Won’t help the pigeon though
Anyway…nice catch….well done, keep them coming
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