Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Shooting birds

This is one thing that i have always wanted to try, but somehow it never materialized...
Had my friend's Sigma 70-300mm, f4-5.6 lens with me... and my Nikon D70s with me..
Finally managed to go to this Rangantittu Bird Sanctuary near Mysore and shot a few shots of birds. Mainly Egrets, Painted Storks and Spoonbills.

These birds happen to be one of the most difficult subjects to shoot..
I wish i had a better lens to take better pictures.. but i still feel that the pics have come out good for a first timer!


Here are some shots from the shoot
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The challenge is to click at the right moment.... get the compositions right..
since everything is against the favorable conditions..
The boat is moving.. the birds are flying.. and the light keeps getting lesser and lesser.. every second.. therefore its really a challenge to shoot on the fly....
Moreover with the low end lenses not giving much of an aperture setting.. u have to be really stable.. even the slight shake gets noticed and the picture get blurred..

Live upto the challenge!
Just getting some variety in my work!

Comments welcome!

5 comments:

Sandhya Kurrey said...

Why did u underestimated that this was not up to the mark well in my eyes these are fabulous shots taken there can be other pictures beeter than this but for this time and composition I think urs is the best :)

Wellness Curator said...

Too good pics... I think you should click more of such pics and think of making collections on wide variety of subjects.
These pics are awesome.

Aditya said...

Hi bhaiya, these pics are really nice but I wonder what more you are looking for in these pics as u did say these could have been much better; personally I feel that they couldnt be better than they have been shot now.

The Journey called life said...

kshitiz, camera and click...superb combo :)
These pics are the perfect example of 'click it on right time'.
These are classics, awesome and cool.
keep it up :)

Kshitiz Anand said...

Thanks Sandhya, Quint, Aditya and manish!