There’s a lot going on in that beautiful sky
The light in Glen Torridon yesterday was excellent. Turning round and looking in the opposite direction to Liathac (the picture above), it was like this:-There’s a lot going on in that beautiful sky
Magical, I like it
Steals my heart
Yes, I'm very jealous of shots like that. I'm not really very good at taking people or animal shots. With people, I don't seem to catch their best side, with animals they are usually too far away or they move or are in the wrong position.Magical, I like it
Lucky you caught him / her? So well they’re usually gliding out over the water by the time you see them.
The problems of animals (or people...) moving can be massively reduced by taking loads of shots. In the days of film that was ludicrously expensive, and only really practical for professional photographers. With digital, one picture costs the same as a hundred. I took twelve shots of the robin over about twenty seconds. Back home I selected (and, confession time, digitally manipulated) the most acceptable one. The rest I just deleted.
The longer the focal length of a lens, the narrower the depth of field (that's the part of the image that's in focus). Telephoto lenses have really narrow depth of field - you can see that in the robin picture. The eyes and the beak are in focus but the tail and wingtips are blurred. Robins are tiny little birds, so the tail was only a couple of inches further away from the camera than the eyes, but with a narrow depth of field that was enough to put it outside the "in focus" zone. And the background, being much further away, is completely blurry. So, with a telephoto lens, a bird (or whatever) doesn't have to move far to be out of focus. Which is why some cameras are fitted with continuous autofocussing that keeps rechecking and refocussing to "hold" the subject in the zone.
Loving the reflections in the water.
Thanks for that. Every day is a school day!
