Show Your Snaps...February 13, 2023

I like your BIFs (birds in flight).  They can be hard to do, especially if there are not many of them flying in the vicinity.

Hawkypuck wrote:

Gorgeous!

Thanks for your generous feedback.

Outstanding!!!  I like the dark green/green background.

Digirame wrote:

Outstanding!!! I like the dark green/green background.

Thanks for your positive comment.

Apparently I’ve been pleasing you with my choices of blurry backgrounds.

It's just my personal preference.  When I'm isolating a subject like a flower or a person or wildlife, I prefer to have that nice background (without distracting elements).  If there are distracting elements and I can't avoid them, then often I'll reduce the focal length and include all of them together, all sharp and in focus.  You should find that most or all my photos I show, are that way.  For me, the whole image is important, more than just the subject matter.  Now, I know other people don't mind having out-of-focus distracting elements in their street photos (for example), but that's not how I like it.

Digirame: How do you like the soft backgrounds in the images above?

They are good, but not what I prefer to take. I used to take them like that, but no longer. When I'm using a telephoto lens, I'll find a background like a building or sign so everything sharp. Or if that is not possible, water or sand would make the background soft without distracting elements. I've now developed an ability to take street photos with much shorter focal lengths. My last "little dog big dog" photo was an example of that. For those kinds of photos, I now use the tilted LCD screen at a lower level, rather than bringing the camera up to the eye level and using the viewfinder. The photos are taken much faster that way, without moving the camera up and down constantly.

Again, it's just my preference. It's something I've been working on over the years to improve...to what I like...but may not be the best for other photographers.

Also when I'm at people events, I work on keeping everything sharp in the photo.  Now with groups of people, that can be difficult.  So I try to see if I can get a close as I can to the event and use shorter focal lengths.  If I use the telephoto lens, I'll try to see if I can isolate the subject matter without other distracting elements.  It's tough to do, but fun and challenging.

Do Bunnies Ski?

Hawkypuck described it best.  It's tracks of a bunny on skis.