Group f11

In 2008 three photographers, starting out on their careers, decided to keep in contact through a blog page in which they could share ideas, post images and ask each other advice. This has since mutated into a web space where those photographers still meet, but so too do their students and other like-minded photographers.

If anybody would like to join all you need to do is email the blog administrator, Emil
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Friday, November 21, 2008

Being Brave



Hi everyone,

Well I'm being brave here. I am putting up a pic up that is far from perfect but goes with the whole bird in flight string we've had. I am interested to know if this is a 'hit or miss' as Tim put it. I took this picture just after I just got my camera, so I didn't try too hard technically. So please fill me in!
Posted by Mandy Rapson at 3:57 AM

1 comment:

Emil von Maltitz said...

Hi Mandy

You've managed to get the exposure and focus spot on (focus is the hardest thing to get right with flying birds). What you need to do is get a whole lot closer. You can start by cropping the actual image and enlarging the area that contains the bird (a vast number of wildlife images are cropped...simply because when the action happens it is very difficult to compose the image 100% perfectly). Sadly cropping and enlarging reduces the image quality the larger you go. the best thing is to capture the image with the bird larger in the frame. I hope to see some more soon :)

E

November 21, 2008 at 10:31 PM

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