Also thanks for voting in your pick for the bird of the week.
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Sounds great!
For sure, shutter speed is the time the camera takes to expose light to the sensor, which is the fancy peice of tech that captures light from the back end of the lens and ātakes the pictureā.
In DSLR cameras, there is a metal curtain that goes in front of the sensor, and uncovers for a split second, to expose the sensor and capture your picture.
During the time that sensor is open, things can move in your picture, just a little bit. If your shutter speed is too low, then your subject and things will move while the camera is taking the photo, and they will be blurry. Like a hummingbirds wings, or a kingfisher diving into the water.
You need to increase the shutter speed for those situations, although it does decrease the amount of light that goes onto your sensor, which will in turn increase the noise in your photo, and image quality will take a hit. So usually you want to use the slowest shutter speed possible for your situation, to get the most amount of light possible onto your sensor.
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Thanks a lot! Iāll try using shutter speed next time I get a chance. Thanks again, these tips are very useful!
EDIT: Sorry for asking so many questions (Iām pretty new to technical photography. Technical to me anyways), but what does 1/1000 mean? Am I supposed to set it to 1000, or anything between? Or am I completely misunderstanding this?
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@birdswithbeau fun question. Do you ever use manual focus when taking photos of birds?
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Gotcha, youāre good!
1/1000 is one one-thousandth of a second, so the sensor will be exposed for 1/1000 of one second. Really fast right? Itās gotta freeze the birds so they donāt have time to move while itās capturing the photo.
And yes there are many things in between
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All of the time. Getting good at manual focus is a must for pursuing higher tier bird photos.
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Geez, that is fast! Thanks for your help, this was extremely useful! Thanks again!
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My pleasure! Glad I was able to help out. Please feel free to ask any other questions in the future!
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Very cool! I may start trying that. My camera is having trouble focusing on birds. So I may try that.
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Welp, time to pack my bags. Travels in 3 hours, and I need to sleep. See yaāll in a week.
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Okay have fun and stay safe.
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Hi, welcome!
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Have a good trip!
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Take wide angle pictures and pictures further away, gradually getting closer and more detailed pictures. I do this for āinsuranceā photos so that if they fly away before I can get a good photo I at least have an identifiable one.
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Even if it does not win bird of the week you should try and find them! They can be your bird of the week!
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No, you can just say you got it. I do not usually add a photo. Not every time I see a bird do I have a photo and this challenge accepts only hearing a bird as well.
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Nice find! I also got a screech a couple nights ago! Didnāt get many good photos but got suuuuper close to him!
Alright I gotta learn how to use this forum haha
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Thatās awesome!
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Nice! Iāve never seen an Osprey.
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