Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you, Doug.
I love taking photos of birds almost as much as I love just watching them.
I'd dearly love to visit your part of the world one day, and I admire your
photos very much. Another goal of mine is to go birding in Costa Rica.
Anyway, pigeons and doves are beautiful too! I live for most of the year in
southern Japan, and my house is very close to a river. I often see
kingfishers, which sight lends a thrill to the whole day, but when I manage
to photograph that beautiful little bird, the natural high ripples on and
on. I suppose you kjnow that feeling.
I played around with the sliders in Flickr's Picnic mode, to try and bring
back a little detail in the flapping dove. I think the M8 tends to
over-expose in 'A' mode, so I will try to experiment a bit and see if I
should set the camera to underexpose by a third or two thirds in certain
situations (white birds against bright skies, for example!).
Peter Cheyne