People sometimes ask me how fast my camera is. I answer: "It is fast. It takes five photos in a second with shutter speed up to 1/8000." What does this mean in real life? The illustration is below. These images were taken in a shadow at dusk at ISO 640 and speed of 1/2000. I could have probably achieved better result at 1/1600. This is a point and shoot sequence. What I did was to choose the settings i thought would be appropriate for the lighting conditions and the action that I was about to photograph, then wait, then follow the target and press and hold the button. The photos came out underexposed so I did some color correction in Photoshop. The newer DSLR models should be even faster, have better auto-focus and produce more detailed images.
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above: Pacific Black Duck in flight, Tasmania
above: Australian Pelican, NSW
above: Black Swan, NSW
above: Grey Teal, NSW
above: Australian Pelican, NSW
above: Grey Teal, NSW
above: Great Egret, NSW
Pacific Black Ducks (top and middle) and a Mallard landing
Pacific Black Duck, Tasmania
Pacific Black Duck, Tasmania
Pacific Black Duck, mother and babies, Hobart, Tasmania
Pacific Black Ducks, Hobart
This is an old picture taken when the ducklings were still quite young. Posting it in-between the water birds just to have a bit of a variation in color and mood. Juvenile Pacific Black in Tasmania.
above: Juv. Silver Gull
above: Pacific Black Duck
These photos were taken months ago and all those cute babies are now big beautiful ducks.
Pacific Black Duck, Hobart, Tasmania
It is a real newly-hatched duckling. I saw five yesterday.
above: Pacific Black Duck in Sydney
above: Chestnut Teal (female) in Melbourne
above: Pacific Black Ducks, photo taken from the original post "Ducks are always so beautiful!"
