Critique Just practicing...

[WaltonR]

Given a free pass, so I popped down to Stockgrove park for a couple e of hours.
Feel free to critique, good or bad.

1) Is it an alien? Nope, just a diving Coot!
Stockgrove-30 by Richard Walton, on Flickr

2) Bottoms up!
Stockgrove-29 by Richard Walton, on Flickr

3) Moorhen on dry land
Stockgrove-13 by Richard Walton, on Flickr

4) The Swans and 7 of their 8 cygnets.
Stockgrove-39 by Richard Walton, on Flickr

5) Drying off after his bath
Stockgrove-20 by Richard Walton, on Flickr

6) A friendly Blue Tit
Stockgrove-44 by Richard Walton, on Flickr

Thanks for looking.

 

[David_Mug]

Lovely photographs. Number 5 is my favourite. Would have been proud to have taken these.

 

[WaltonR]

Lovely photographs. Number 5 is my favourite. Would have been proud to have taken these.

Thanks David.

 

[Dale.]

Nice set Richard.

Nice to see 7 cygnets.

 

[WaltonR]

Nice set Richard.

Nice to see 7 cygnets.

Thanks very much.
There’s actually 8 but the last one wasn’t in a position to be in the photo.

 

[davholla]

Very nice you might want to try a higher speed to freeze the wing movement - although of course you might like it as it is.

 

[WaltonR]

Very nice you might want to try a higher speed to freeze the wing movement - although of course you might like it as it is.

Yes, had a play with that but the light was poor and pushed the ISO too high. So I stumped for the wings showing action instead.
Thanks for the advice though. Much appreciated.

 

[davholla]

Yes, had a play with that but the light was poor and pushed the ISO too high. So I stumped for the wings showing action instead.
Thanks for the advice though. Much appreciated.

With DXO you might be able to use higher ISOs than you think
This was with the 7DMKII - which should be worse than your 850D at 16000 ISO

EF7A8456-CR2_DxO_DeepPRIMECockoftherock by davholla2002, on Flickr

 

[Bodian]

Mallards rising out of the water and flapping can be surprisingly hard to capture. Good stuff.

 

[davholla]

Mallards rising out of the water and flapping can be surprisingly hard to capture. Good stuff.

Very true.

 

[WaltonR]

Mallards rising out of the water and flapping can be surprisingly hard to capture. Good stuff.

Thank you. I fairly quickly worked out that where they start dipping under the water for a wash, within a few seconds they’ll rise up to flap their wings. So I simply kept an eye out for those that were dipping.