Robin photo

Borderfox

I have been trying to get different types of shots of birds that come to feed at the apartment door, tried the Sigma 70-300mm but didnt like the fact that it's not sharp in good light, so closed the curtains and stuck my 50mm f1.8 though them and took in with that, came out nice and sharp and I like the dead area at the left. An opinions?


http://static.zooomr.com/images/b69217b2b9963f3e3ef597f6562fd8434fbdaf35.jpg

Dimy

I think it's a bit too dark...

Borderfox

Ok thanks Dimy

elven

Rather than just flinging a random comment I thought I might to try help you understand what you can look to improve on, because there's plenty to take from this picture. The one thing I really like is that you have the bird contrast to the sky which means you don't have any distracting background.

Because you are pointing your camera at a window, loads of light is coming in to the lens and falling on the sensor, so when you take a picture, the camera doesn't expose the picture for long enough because it is taking an average of the whole scene. But the thing you want to pay attention to is the bird, which takes up a tiny area of the whole scene and is much darker than the sky around it. There are a couple of easy ways to get around this - you can use flash, which will light up the bird because it is at close range and allow the sky to be exposed properly, or you can get in close and fill as much of the frame with the subject itself which will produce a more accurate balance of metering and the camera will make the settings match the bird more than the sky behind it.

You have mentioned that you like the dead area on the left - I'm struggling with this. Can you explain why you think it's worth including rather than concentrating on your main subject?

I hope my comments are helpful to you. I could discuss this stuff all day long...

Borderfox

Thanks Elven some very good points there...:)