A New Photographer

KeilanS · Jul 1, 2006

Hey all, I'm a new photographer and I just bought my Kodak P850 a few weeks ago and decided that nature is the way for me to go. Here are a few of my shots. I'm only going to upload these two, but if you like these ones, please check out my photoblog at http://keilansblog.blogspot.com/.

Thanks for looking :lol:

LaFoto · Jul 2, 2006

Heya Keilan, and welcome to ThePhotoForum!!!

What, you are only just starting out and are beginning with a bird photo like THIS!?!?!?
Envy all the way here!
Boy ... I can almost HEAR him sing!

Also that pink cloud in a wide wide sky is nice! I like that one, too.

mentos_007 · Jul 2, 2006

the birdie is cute :

Canonic · Jul 2, 2006

Love #2

KeilanS · Jul 2, 2006

Thank you all! To be honest, I was a little dissapointed with the bird, it lacked a lot of the sharpness that I like, probably because I had to use some digital zoom to get that close. My first self-taught lesson as a photographer was that you NEVER have enough zoom :lol:

Heres another bird I took that turned out nice and sharp.

Thanks again for looking!

LaFoto · Jul 2, 2006

Oh, how cute!
A sparrow chick.
Still small and still yellow at its beak. Awwww.

(I only once tried to use the digital zoom of my compact digital camera ... never again. I switched that function off never to switch it on again).

JOAT · Jul 2, 2006

KeilanS said:
Thank you all! To be honest, I was a little dissapointed with the bird, it lacked a lot of the sharpness that I like, probably because I had to use some digital zoom to get that close. My first self-taught lesson as a photographer was that you NEVER have enough zoom Heres another bird I took that turned out nice and sharp.

Thanks again for looking!

Ain't that the truth! especially for small birds you can never have enough zoom. Nice shot none the less.

KeilanS · Jul 2, 2006

LaFoto, I didn't find the digi-zoom to be THAT bad, I just set my camera so that if I'm just holding the zoom controls it will stop at the end of optical, and I have to stop holding zoom and then press it again to start digital. I don't want to use it by accident ever, that would be horrible.

And thank you Joat, the second bird (the little baby looking one thats not singing) landed about 3 feet in front of me without warning, I don't think I even used full optical for that one.