Thanks Chris. I think the bird is just barely within the COC. The camera
AF liked the twigs in front of him. I'll keep working at it!
Joel W.
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 1:22 AM, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> They're lovely shots, Joel. Yes, the bird is perhaps a tiny bit softer,
> but that could be the way the colour shows on the image; and the range of
> colours looks very good.
>
> Chris
>
> On 16 May 14, at 21:51, DZDub <jdubikins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> snip
> > We have a bluebird in the area. He seems to use the tree to scope out
> > something he likes to eat on the ground. He dive-bombs to the ground and
> > then goes back up to another spot in the tree.
> >
> > There are two shots on this page:
> >
> > http://myweb.uiowa.edu/jfwilcox/
> >
> > The second is not as "classic" a pose, but it shows the bird about to
> > launch himself to the ground. Both are cropped at about what looks like
> > 33% pixels on the screen.
> >
> > I find it very hard to focus on this guy. He's so soft and puffy, the AF
> > seems to want to grab onto a branch just a bit before him or just a bit
> > beyond. Even at f8 and f11 DOF is pretty shallow with the lens fully
> > racked out. I've never found the lens to focus as well as I would like
> at
> > the long end, or maybe it's just a bit soft at the long end, which is how
> > those lenses tend to be. It is
> > what it is.
>
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