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Postby Manta on Wed May 18, 2005 10:47 pm

Another regular visitor to my fence. Shallow DOF let this one down. Once again focussing in pitch darkness meant I missed the best focus point - the eyes. Seems the edge of the ears and the front foot was the sharpest point. Your comments are welcome.

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Postby mudder on Wed May 18, 2005 11:03 pm

New breed of possum, the stunned mulletis :lol:

Great catch though, I'd have no hope of getting focus that close in the dark, I have enough trouble in the light! Just missed his pinkies...

Use an SB800? Metering? Interested as it seems really nicely exposed...

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Postby Manta on Wed May 18, 2005 11:11 pm

Cheers, Mudder. Here's the full EXIF:

Manual mode RAW
Handheld
70-300G at 180mm
1/60"
f4.8
SB800 i-TTL (no compensation)
Multi-pattern metering
ISO200

Pinkies lost in original composition - I don't normally crop that badly! Next time I'll try for f8-11 to increase the sharpness overall.
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Postby JordanP on Wed May 18, 2005 11:15 pm

woah! hand held 180mm at 60th sec. You got steady hands Simon. As said above nice exposure of a difficult shot. Well done.
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Postby beetleboy on Thu May 19, 2005 12:22 am

The flash provide the steady hand! You'd struggle to move quicker than the fraction of a second the flash fires for!

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Postby beetleboy on Thu May 19, 2005 12:24 am

Oh, and nice shot!!

I took some pics of Wallaby's and Kangaroo's the other day and had the same problem with the red eyes!
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Postby BBJ on Thu May 19, 2005 7:23 am

Great shot simon hey who needs to go to take pictures with the animals that show up in your back yard, cool i think.
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Postby the foto fanatic on Thu May 19, 2005 9:26 am

I like the image, Simon - and I think the shallow DOF isn't an issue. :D
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Postby Manta on Thu May 19, 2005 9:50 am

Would you believe I was using a REALLY slow flash? :wink:
Don't know why I even mentioned handheld - I was very tired when I posted the image so maybe the brain was a bit numb. Sorry for the misinformation. Of course the flash is going to stop any movement. Congratulations Beetleboy - you passed my little test. :wink:
Craig - we'll have to talk! :shock:

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