True Love

• shutterbug

  Participant

  January 7, 2007 at 3:35 pm

  Can anyone tell me how to focus on the two swans, I focused on the right hand swan
  kept the shutter button half way and re-composed but the left hand swan is a lot softer
  than the right, is this the right way to go about it?
  

  Shutterbug :?
  PeteTheBloke

  Member

  January 7, 2007 at 3:57 pm

  Still looks nice though, doesn’t it?

  I’d imagine it’s simply that you’re not getting much room for error at f/6.3. Seeing as you took this at 1/500 sec, you might have considered closing the aperture a stop or two and shooting at 1/250 or 1/125 sec.

  Alternatively (if you were not using a tripod, say) you could put your ISO to 800 and shoot at 1/250 f/11. At f/11 you should get enough DoF to cover this shot.

  Now you just have to go back and find the swans again!
  Noely F

  Participant

  January 7, 2007 at 4:38 pm

  I’d love to zoom out and see their heads making a heart shape….Aaaawww :wink:
  shutterbug

  Participant

  January 7, 2007 at 7:09 pm

  Thanks Pete, will try again, The swans are always there,
  Bray harbour must have about forty or fifty swans they
  get fed regularly so they stay around,

  Noely I only cropped a little bit this was almost full frame,
  there wasnt a definite heart shape so I thought I would give
  the impression of one!

  Thanks for looking…….Shutterbug :)