I have been trying for ages to get a decent shot of chickadees (not on a bird feeder) but they are so small, and quick, and flighty that it is really tough.
Was just so pleased to get this guy sitting still for half a second.
BTW - the weather has turned warmer so I was able to stand under the tree by the bird feeder for 20 minutes patiently waiting for a good shot. Thank goodness!
Shanne @shannejw challenged me to use a setting of my camera that I never normally use, whether it's some in-camera processing or a pre-set for a scene I do not usually use. Since I shoot 95% on manual and my camera will allow me to create pre-sets of my own, I learned how to do this.
The first pre-set I created was for the series of chickadee photos where I set the camera for the conditions I had – ISO 800 since it was a cloudy day, aperture of f5.6 (relatively open for a nice background but closed enough to allow the whole bird to be in focus) and the fastest shutter speed (1/200 sec) I could get in the darker conditions without blowing my ISO much higher.
So, I shot the whole series with this pre-set. Will probably not keep this as a pre-set but it was a great way to learn how to do it.
Shanne @shannejw I actually learned how to create my own personal pre-sets with this series of shots but was not going to use them as my get-pushed challenge, but I prefer these to what I actually ended up doing.
Hope you don't mind me using both?
Hope you don't mind me using both?