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Why isn’t AF picking up these birds?

Started 10 months ago | Questions thread
Andy01 Veteran Member • Posts: 5,188
Re: Remembered to bring the shutter speed back up

Texchappy wrote:

And finally got a nit horrible one of the red winged black bird

Strangely enough, in spite of being at lower ISO (3200 vs 5000), the second shot has a LOT more noise than the first shot - IMO unacceptably noisy.

Are you doing any post processing ? Like shadow boosting (dark birds are a challenge though), highlight taming & noise reduction ? I think these shots (and the others) would benefit from all three.

To me the focus still looks a bit off - I don't think that anything in these shots is really sharp (in your previous shots there was usually something sharp - often not the bird, but something) - perhaps the high ISO is exaggerating that effect ?

Colin

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