How quick are their reaction times? When I pressed the shutter, this lorikeet was happily eating its apple. In the fraction of a second that the flash existed for, its wings up ready to take off. Interestingly, I took three photos like this and his wings are in the same position in each photo but at no time did it take off. Just startled and then settled straight down again. This is SOOC - not even cropped. I was about 50cm from him when I took it. See the before pic at http://365project.org/terryliv/directors-cut/2014-03-20
technical question. Can anyone explain the ghosting that is showing up above its wings. It is much more pronounced in the other two pics where it was startled.
Cool shot Poppo. I think the ghosting is due to the shutter speed, at 1/80th of a second it isn't freezing all the movement so some ghosting appears. Probably find at 1/200th that this wouldn't occur. I'm no expert though!!
If this was taken with flash you would get ghosting because the flash lasts milliseconds and the ghosting appears in the ambient light which in this case was 1/80th sec.
@kporte Thanks Keith. I would have thought that a slow shutter speed would just give blurring rather than ghosting - but I am obviously no expert either.
@onewing Thanks babs and yes that does explain the ghosting. I have no idea what I would do if I were to try the same pic tomorrow. I ran out of RAM while trying to follow the last part of the article. But to be honest, now that I know what's happening, unless there is a very simple solution, I don't really care that much about fixing it.
Hope it helps.
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