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Hey all, I have just started to get in photography and took these pics on Friday evening, if any has any comments or tips for taking shots like these then I would be grateful...



 
bigredshark said:
If you've got good technique then 1/focal length is a good guide number, with heavier lenses or if you're technique isn't so good (or any number of other mitigating factors). I'd personally be looking at 1/800 or higher (which with f/6.3 the fastest at the long end will be hard work)...
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Thanks. So in order to shoot hand held at 500mm you would need a camera that would allow you to shoot at a higher ISO? I've told him to get a monopod as that will help a bit for now at least.

Nice picture, What camera and lens was that done with?
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Cheers, It was taken with my D80, Nikkor 60mm and extension tubes.
 
Mark A said:
Thanks. So in order to shoot hand held at 500mm you would need a camera that would allow you to shoot at a higher ISO? I've told him to get a monopod as that will help a bit for now at least.
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I can handhold (for about four or five mins on 1.3x crop) a 500mm f/4 at 1/320th (with IS).

I think the 500 f/6.3 you ought to be able to handhold at 1/160th with IS on 1.3x - perhaps 1/200th on 1.6x. A monopod would help though - with a decent monopod I can shoot 1/20th at 500mm (panning without IS)
 
Mud said:
I took about 450 images and got very few BIF images with the bird actually in focus! I also didn't realise how quick they'd be :eek:
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hmm, I took about a dozen, with a D90 and a cheapy Nikon 55-200mm VR and got about 5 good one's ;)

I saw the kite out of my front room window while i was watching the tennis, Camera was up stairs with a different lens on it, fell up the stairs in my rush, swapped lens ran outside and just caught it as it came over head.

Mad skill'z :D
 
Wedge, sounds like you're somewhere with enough interesting wildlife that you should keep the telephoto on your body...

I recently completely removed the small lag time between the body losing AF and seeking it again. I might have scuppered myself with that. I always use AF-C and back-button autofocus too, might have to research what most anoraks are advocating.
 
Not really in the country, but not far, we have had kite's flying round our estate for the past couple of months on and off, just a lucky spot really.

I do like wildlife though, would love to have fast telephoto glass 300mm + stuff.
 
What my entire weekend consisted of. 18 hours over 2 days and then 9 hours processing. Busy bloody weekend!

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More on my Flickr
 
Good stuff but 9 hours of PP!!!! Not sure about you but usually when I send stuff off 80% of the time they'll insist on having SOOC jpegs!!!

I think you could also try and crop tighter?
 
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p0ss3s3d said:
Good stuff but 9 hours of PP!!!! Not sure about you but usually when I send stuff off 80% of the time they'll insist on having SOOC jpegs!!!

I think you could also try and crop tighter?
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I wanted to get the images right so i've spent some time on them. Plus a lot of the time, the images had a white tint over them because of the smoke which I've tried to fix.

Could crop tighter on some but I also wanted that sense of where the cars are heading, coming from rather than just having the car fill the shot.
 
ScarySquirrel said:
SOOC for the lose :p
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Yeah, but it's faster and IMO that tends to be more important for publishing :(

You gotta do what you pays your money and whatnot... having said that if you get the SOOC stuff ruight (manaul WB - here for example I gave the camera AWB because fo the changable lighting but gave it a +3 green cast to stop the grass giving a pink cast, good exposure - changable lighting meant that matrix metering was unfortunatley the way to go, correct jpeg settings, colour profile and whatnot the results aren't too bad...)

i.e here are some SOOC camera efforts this weekend.

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I'm getting closer to how I want everything SOOC. But with this I'm at the mercy of the lighting. Yesterday it wasn't great so the images are a little flatter than I like...
 
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