Food to go ...

[Dave Humphries]

Hi all,

A shot from one of last weekend's local photographic forays.



Nikon D5000 + Sigma 18 - 250, 1/1500s @ f6.3, ISO400 at 250mm

It's odd, the lens seems to be almost permanently at this end of it's range

Comments welcome.
I'll pre-empt anyone who is too shy to tell me it's over exposed , but I felt the content made it worth posting anyway.

BTW I don't think this is a fish (I might be wrong on this occassion), these birdies seem to live on the abundent insect life, like the creatures I put in the another little beastie thread.

[Keith]

It's odd, the lens seems to be almost permanently at this end of it's range

Interesting you should say that Dave, I have found my Sigma 150-500mm lens seems to have welded itself to my D90 and is permanently set at 500mm.

Nice capture, you got the moment and to me, thats what counts!

[Mossy]

Nice shot, I wouldn't say it was overexposed, but have you considered a closer crop on the bird?

Heh, 500mm? I pretty much shoot at 12mm the whole time these days...

[Dave Humphries]

Thanks Keith,

Mossy,

Nice shot, I wouldn't say it was overexposed, but have you considered a closer crop on the bird?

I did, but thought the splash added something, i.e. it diverted the viewer's attention away from the over-exposed bit

See what the others think.

Thanks,

[kevinbythebeach]

it looks slightly out of focus too me...just a wee tad....which is hard to belive being shot at 1/1500 ..wre you panning to catch up with the bird... :P

[Dave Humphries]

were you panning to catch up with the bird... :P

Oh yes!

Could be (oof)

[Wirefox]

Dave

I think the focus is pretty good considering that shallow depth of field. I had not realised how shallow it can be with those settings. The wing tips are out and the water just behind. It is a nice shot. I always seem to get the beak far left frame or the rear end frame right

[taken]

the moment, the action of the bird, its body language, the expression are well caught composition needs a drastic change....too much space at the rear of the bird

[Colin Southern]

The OOF is probably just motion blur - it won't be a DoF issue at that aperture and length.

I had a similar issue with this shot ...