Sutton Coldfield Park - Swans

[ecniv]

Went for a walk in the park yesterday.

Managed to get the attention of a swan, but didn't do too well on capturing it on digital.

Better (hardly processed) pictures on flickr, but here are a few of the ok ones.

Apart from moving back, are there any other things I could do?

Most of these are probably the 105mm macro as the hoya 135mm didn't cope too well. Weird glow/mist in the middle of the shots...

 

[Roy C]

Double post by me

 

[Roy C]

I am afraid these have all got poor composition and overexposed. Sorry but you did ask for critique.

 

[border323]

same as above...

Number 2 may have been ok.. shame you cut the tip of his beak off ... I quite like the pose could have worked nice if exposure was ok.

Keep trying..

 

[u8myufo]

I agree with Roy about the composition and exposure on these. I also cannot help wondering if the better shots are on Flickr, as you suggest in this and the other thread, then why not post them up here?

 

[ecniv]

Because here I can get tips on next times attempts...

If the better ones are the best, then I'd lose all these as cr@p.

Drops my ratio of ok pics from 20/153 to around 6... and I am trying to keep flickr as the better shots and not the almost shots... Photobucket gets those

Missed the focus... AF got it just ahead of the head...

Composition and manual with birds that don't want to stay still lol... will try better f# next time too...