KL Bird Park - New Gallery

[kazarau]

Hi All,

Last weekend I attended a 'Basic Digital Photography' workshop at the KL Bird Park. The following gallery contains only 4 photos from my Canon 10D with 100mm/f2.8. The images were slightly done up using Photoshop Album.

Appreciate your comments and criticisms to improve. Here's the URL

http://www.pbase.com/kazarau/kl_bird_park

Thanks

[statu]

Some tips
pic 1. Its really hard to shoot subjects in cages (personnel I avoid it)
Pic 2. You need more depth of field. try f/9 why are you shooting at 1/40 f2.8? If the lighting is that bad use a flash
pic 3. I personnel don't like butt shots. (that's just me)

pic 4. Same as 2 plus you seem to have your focus on the first birds butt. I like to focus on the Eyes on the animal.

[herb1rm]

I agree with Scott, however I do like the second image.
Keep up the good work, you have a good camera/lens combination.
Herb

[peirce]

I like what you did with the first picture. We know the cage is there, but it does not get in the way. The other pix seem to be fairly routine. The choice of a bird park for holding a photo class is ideal.

[kazarau]

Hi all,
Thanks for all the tips and comments.

[shadepuppy]

In the first shot - you can blur the cage wire so that it ALMOST doesn't show when the bird is far away from the wire by placing your lens very close to the wire and shooting with a wide aperture to blur both the foreground and background. You may have used that technique in this shot, but the bird may have been too close to the wire. I'd like to avoid these shots also, but sometimes it's worth trying to get a shot of a bird/mammal that is interesting to us - or for practice.

The third shot looks (to me) like an attempt to capture those lovely wings, but a much wider shot would have improved the image. I certainly agree that focusing on the eye is, in general, very important to capturing the beauty and spirit of any living creature - human or animal. Moving to another position is a very important part of photography -- we need to consider as many views as possible - sometimes, all we can get is a quick grab shot, but often it is up to us to find a better vantage point.

The second shot is sharp on the subject, separating it from the background. Again, walking to each side and searching the viewfinder can help us find the best available background - which sometimes still needs to be blurred on purpose.

You're going to have a lot of fun with your new camera set-up! Keep shooting!