And here's one reason: unlike 99% of amateur pictures, she gets close enough. Or to be more precise: she knows to crop out all the irrelevant sorroundings. Most snapshots in the world have the main motif floating in a sea of messy, uh, mess.
My theory is that most people, not used to thinking about pictures, don't see the frame of the viewfinder. They just see the subject and don't notice the distance to the edge. And much less think about how thing are arranged in the picture.
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Is there an 18-200 IS lens for the Nikon DSLRs?
I had a choice of an 18-200 without, or an 18-55 with when I bought. I was going to get the 50-200 IS later. An 18-200 sounds like Nirvana. In the film days , I seldom wandered outside 28-300.
Anyway I like to fit tight around my subjects, but I always find myself focussing(concentrating) on the center of the image, maybe my specs push me back from the viewfinder too much. Could this be the issue? Is this the same for other people?
A lot of snapshooters have no zoom, I find if I am using my cell phone I have to pretty much snap what I can and crop later. Selective enlargements are a great option here, and digitally it is a lot easier than in film.
She also makes good use of depth of field to blur the background of her subject. Most amateur photographers think everything has to be in focus.
"Is there an 18-200 IS lens for the Nikon DSLRs?"
Yes indeed. (IS is called VR by Nikon.) And funny enough I'd recommended that in this very post, but then removed it when I found out she already has one!
See:
http://stobblehouse.com/text/superzoom.html
"I always find myself focussing (concentrating) on the center of the image, maybe my specs push me back from the viewfinder too much."
Well, if you can actually *see* the whole frame, I guess you just need to train it a bit.
Big cat photos, my favourite! Notice her suspiciousness towards the lady who is covering her face with one of those black things.
The other photos are nice too. Especially the dialog between the squirrels. The duck is beautiful in colour but least interesting of the three in terms of photographic composition, I think.
Welcome to the D80 club!
Thanks for the feedback and compliments. I have to give most credit to this D80 that I have. As an amateur, I absolutely love it. I hope to be able to figure out how to do better lighting...such as the *big cat*... in the future. I am *challenged* by indoor lighting, as well. I do have an external flash, now, (SB-600) though...but have ALOT to learn, still, obviously.
I'll work on getting a better *big cat* pic for you in the future, ttl! lol! :-) I am quite disappointed w/this one!
I tried to explain to Eolake that I was running, (no...not from the *big cat*...with my family...at the zoo! :-) when I briefly stopped to take that pic. And then...Eolake/we discovered that my lenses aren't even VR's!! Drat! :-(
I like the big cat.
Is the disappointment the exposure of the face? With the D80 there is hte d-Lighting software, it does a great job of lightening in shade without bleaching out the light areas.
Yes, apart from slight shake-blur, there's nothing wrong with the cat picture.
(The face could be lit a bit more in image processing software.) (Not too much or it gets noisy.)
Several things: I would have liked to have had more time to set this picture up better. I'm looking @ getting a monopod...thinking that one would probably help when trying to get pictures of things that move quickly and unpredictably...like animals;
I would have liked to have included the back paws; tried to have taken a shot from more of a side angle...giving the *illusion* that this cougar was not behind a thick plexy glass(?) barrier (rather than the silly reflection that I did catch); and...yes...more lighting on the face...the eyes, in particular.
I sent Eolake a pic of a tiger that I much preferred to this one...but it also had alot more light around it.
Ah, well...it's nice that people still like this pic. Not very often a person gets to see a cougar...except, of course, the people who have had their heads *gnawed on*! I will never forget this story! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16817149/
I met a photographer, recently, who told me that if I wanted to get really good wildlife pictures, I needed to be prepared to be very lonely out there. Uh...I don't think that I would be crazy enough to go out by myself, after this story! lol!
But...to get the light, in a setting where it is dark by the glass, such as it was, could a person use an external flash and bounce the light off the top of the mortar(?) outside the plexy glass or...would it be better to change ISO...or both???
It's always good to experiment with ISO. Many people use too low a setting for fear of noise, only to get shake blur (or too little depth of field) instead.
I see nothing wrong with the lighting of the cougar photo. The only weakness is the slight shake-blur that Eolake already mentioned.
But the nice thing about big cat photos is that even when they are not technically perfect, they are still perfect thanks to the subject.
Here are some pretty amazing new big cat photos for you, TC.
Thanks, ttl. WAY COOL! The # stones sure cracks me up! Sounds so...medieval! lol!
I've been trying to figure out how to share another tiger pic that I took and actually like. *Eo* probably threw the last link I sent to him away by now...right, bud?
Our town has this *fun* tradition of inviting all the dogs in the neighborhood to go play in their outdoor pool...at the end of the summer, just before they drain it. I haven't had a chance to bring my boxers there, yet, but...I imagine it might be somewhat as fun as this experience.
A couple of these pix are pretty cool...especially the one where [s]he's got the paw outstretched...and you could imagine the tree trunk that might take a beating w/them trying to sharpen those claws...if they even do that, like a small cat! lol! The other that looks like it's *growling* looks pretty COOL, too! Thanks for sharing those. Very cool! And...just for the record: I happen to be one of the few people, in the world, that would actually try that experience...were it presented to me! :-)
ttl...back to you w/some *big cats* that I happened upon, tonight. Thought this was interesting: http://www.liger.org/
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