there is definitely still a challenge in wildlife photography.......
Yeah I agree, often have to adjust the brightness, contrast, do some cropping and some sharpening to bring the colours and edges in the pic out better, but I don't have any equipment to get the flash output right etc, usually just use a point and shoot digital cam on manual with certain settings that I rarely change.
I used to adjust the aperture etc when I was learning on a Canon Eos 3000, but you couldn't have many wasted shots back then when using film, so learnt how to try and get the shots right the 1st time, I've since forgotten alot of what I learnt on that cam.
Will be getting back into taking better macro's again soon and relearning how to, got a Pentax Kx and a ok cheap beginner lens for it that I couldn't use, only just got a adapter for the lens recently, months after getting the camera and lens.
The lens is a old Tamron SP 35-80mm CF macro with adaptall 2 type connection, it's manual aperture and zoom adjustment, it came with a Hoyo UV filter on it.
I still need to get a ring flash and some extension rings to improve the macro on the lens and to lengthen it's range, current is 1:2.5 at full extension, will down to 1:1.25 with a entension ring and change the range to 70-140mm and so on with each ring added.
My wife and I really like this lens, it's way clearer than the starter pentax 18-55mm lens the camera came with.
...(yes i'm suggesting last years ANZANG winner was not legitimate).
Did you read much of his web page, apparently he has a habit of going out at night to photograph sunrises and won't come back for days... Some very ridiculous stuff on there.Did you see his picture of the "baby dugite" and the duckling. It's a classic!
Did you read much of his web page, apparently he has a habit of going out at night to photograph sunrises and won't come back for days... Some very ridiculous stuff on there.
Been away for a few day, but thanks for all the responses guys, some great insight into the topic.
AndyNic, I was and sort of still am in the same boat as you with not really knowing how to edit photos properly, I just tried to tinker with the saturation a little bit for the comp entry which made the colours a bit brighter. I was put onto a program called fast stone image viewer which seems to give plenty of easy editing options.
I was particularly interested in the ANZANG competition winners photo too. When I saw it on display in Adelaide I thought it looked a bit too good to be true.
I also liked the photo of the spoonbill taken at 2am on a full moon. The clarity of the moving droplets of water should surely defy the level of available light at the time. Just my thoughts.
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