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[CMF]

I have been working on sparrows this late fall as they are so plentiful but are difficult to shoot in their natural settings. They seem very skittish and always on alert to vanish before I even get close to focus. I couldn't move fast enough to clear the left side of the frame of reeds but I think it adds to the pictures secretive aura. The sharpness has been tweaked very little and there has been minor cropping. As I move around from marsh to trees to brush, I have found the Programed Auto with ISO set at 400 to be most successful moving through the different lighting conditions. What can anyone prescribe for shooting in this type of "on the move" hunting that can improve my quaity?

 CMF

 Nikon D80 70-300mm f/4-5.6G ED AF-S DX VR

 

 

 

[thekiwi]

You have done a good job here as we all know birds in the wild and in there environment are not the easiest of subjects to shoot as there is a great number of things that can go wrong or the surrounds are are a cluttered mess so we have to be patient and we also have to take a great number of shoots in the hope that we get a good one. I think that we tend to adapt our own approach as to how we deal with these problems. We just have to keep at it the more we do it the better we get. I think we need to critique our images more than we do try and put aside the fact that you took the image  and try and look at it as if someone else took the image and critique it as such look for the good points and look for the flaws This way you will be able to apply that knowledge next time you go out shooting.