First try at small birds

[macky799]

As it says above was out trying out my new 40d +sigma
50-500. Poor lighting wasnt helping all c+c welcome, did use a monopod but think a tripod would have been better

 

[laser_jock99]

Nice photo- curious to know the ISO setting you used? I was out doing much the same thing today and found ISO400 was the minimum speed I could use for handheld shots at F4, 200mm.

 

[macky799]

I was using iso 1250 to try and keep the shuter speed high, the sigma 50-500 is a bit heavy to hand hold and not much better with a monopod.The settings i used were 1/800 f5.6 iso 1250

 

[Venomator]

That is not bad at all for a first stab at bird shots Macky ... ... it is a little bit grainy from the high ISO probably and it is also slightly over 'shopped as in over-sharpened and a little too much saturation ... :shrug:


But very nice compositionally save for the errant twig and shows lots of promise ...

 

[macky799]

hows this one

 

[Nightwing_67]

great photo.. and great recovery with the second version. well done xx

 

[moomike]

2nd version is worlds apart imho, much better controlled processing. 1st looks very oversharpened to me, the noise doesn't bother me overly much though.

(Just a quick suggestion - I'd recommend changing the copyright text on your images as the font isn't holding its quality )

 

[macky799]

Thanks all for your c+c its always good to get some feedback

 

[oldgit]

2nd is better .. as Ven said too much PP doesnt help

 

[madmitch]

2nd edit much better Macky