Thanks Mark. The flower was taken at a local nursery/greenhouse and I didn't note the species, but I think it is some kind of Zinnia. (More knowledgeable flower people, feel free to correct me).
I'm learning that one really needs to apply a bit of strategy to shooting birds outdoors on sunny days. The best shots are with the sun coming over your shoulder, fully lighting your subject. Thus, if taking a birding walk in the woods in the early morning it would be best to choose a path from East to West and in the late afternoon the opposite. These Cardinal shots, unfortunately, are side lit and work OK if the cardinal was facing the sun, but not so well when his head was in shadow. I dislike fill flash outdoors (think it looks unnatural) but that would be one obvious solution. On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: > The flower is great - do you know what it is? I like cardinal picking seeds > off the vine as well. > > Mark > > > On 4/30/2013 4:01 PM, Darren Addy wrote: >> >> A small set mostly for bird lovers... a Cardinal and a pair of Wood >> Ducks taken with the Bigma. >> I boosted the ISO to 800 even though it was a sunny day, to get higher >> shutter speeds with the 500mm. But that's not all! Call now and you'll >> also receive a flower shot with my first dabbling with the Tokina AT-X >> 90mm f2.5 Macro (PK/A) - at no additonal charge! >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/sets/72157633388620064/ >> >> -- >> "Photography is a Bastard left by Science on the Doorstep of Art" - >> Peter Galassi >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- "Photography is a Bastard left by Science on the Doorstep of Art" - Peter Galassi -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
