| Re: Black Headed Gull - Advice Please
Hi Paul
You are going to be struggling with a short lens, though it's not an impossible task. Also the look of the sky suggests that this was one of those winter-grey days. The main thing I check with brids in flight is the exposure compensation. With dark birds I add a bit of positive compensation to avoid the bird appearing as a silhouette, but with gulls being lighter than the sky you don't need to worry (in fact on bright days I use a very small amount of negative compensation on gulls to stop the highlights getting blown).
The other tricky bit is getting the focus really sharp. Much easier if they are moving across your line of vision rather than coming at you (when the focusing point will constnatly be getting shorter), but if the A20 has what Canon calls AI focusing (it changes cosntantly) that can help as long as you keep the bird in the focusing point.
Other than that, it's just a case of practice. And then more practice. |