You are off to a great start. I like your eye for compositions and you are paying attention to the backgrounds It would be a big help if you kept the EXIF data intact, knowing your settings helps us to make intelligent comments. I see the shutter speed on the first is pretty low 1/125 at 400mm. A rule of thumb is to have the shutter speed the same if not faster than the length of the lens. In this case a good starting point would be 1/400 if not faster. That may help you to produce sharper images.
Nice ones, one suggestion if you have photoshop is to darkend the background a little in number 3. My eye is drawn to the lightest area which takes attention away from the subject. Bruce
Thanks a lot everyone. I am still new to photoshop so usually I am not doing much post processing so my keeper rate is low
Tim: Spent the day today shooting some birds with your suggestions lets see if I did better.
I am shooting Av mode at ISO 800-1600 to keep exposure higher than 1/400 but the light drops so I tried 1 stop exposure comp but ended with grainy pictures. Not sure if this has to do with T2i or just using exp. comp. in general.
Dave...Honey Creeper is coming next. I hiked 7 miles yesterday to get a single 'okay' shot of one...and also managed to get my first trespass warning from DLNR. May be I should invest a feeder...na that would be too easy!
moonyguy wrote:
Thanks a lot everyone. I am still new to photoshop so usually I am not doing much post processing so my keeper rate is low
Tim: Spent the day today shooting some birds with your suggestions lets see if I did better.
I am shooting Av mode at ISO 800-1600 to keep exposure higher than 1/400 but the light drops so I tried 1 stop exposure comp but ended with grainy pictures. Not sure if this has to do with T2i or just using exp. comp. in general.
When light is low set Lighting Optimizer to the Standard setting without using exposure comp. Do not worry much about background noise. If the focus subject has descent noise level you can reduce the background noise with a noise reduction in PS or any other noise reduction programs.
It would be a big help if you kept the EXIF data intact, knowing your settings helps us to make intelligent comments. I see the shutter speed on the first is pretty low 1/125 at 400mm. A rule of thumb is to have the shutter speed the same if not faster than the length of the lens. In this case a good starting point would be 1/400 if not faster. That may help you to produce sharper images. 