A story to tell on 190107...

[broccoli]

Would like to share this "WOW" & "sigh" story with all of you...

Today morning around 9am when I was praparing to go for work...suddenly...i heard something outside my house, along the corridoor, where my rows of plants are located...chee!!! chee!!! chee!!!...nowday, any birds chipping will get me alert and look up...okay, come back to the story...from my house, i looked out thru the grille, WOW...yellow bird....a pair of SUNBIRDs...the last time i saw it was during MOG outing...

Getting excited, as my digi cabinet is in the living room, in swift and rapid motion...out my camera body, out the 400mm Lens, out the caps...oh...without my flash....From the on/off switch, I push to ON with my right thumb...and start snap, snap, snap, snap...during this period, I was thinking..."DUN FLY", DUN FLY"...in another swift motion, i depress the preview button...."naBeIiiiiiii".....all under exposed...NO...are super under-exposed....check my exposure meter..."nuts"...it was -3 stop..."wah lan"....I remembered, last night I was testing some settings and photos on my new tamron 17-50 F2.8....

Quickly...I push forward the exposure stop to -1/3...I LOOK UP!!! & contiuned shooting.....NO!!! he/she looked at me smiling....& FLY AWAY.......i was shaking my head in disgust.....hopping that I can save these pictures using DPP....

Moral of the story....know you camera well, know the setting you are in before the 1st trigger...even you are fast in assembling & triggering...it is of NO USE....wrong exposure, wrong shutter speed.....

here are my photos after post processing using DPP...I think CS2 will be a better tool to save these photos....

Sorry for the badly exposed photos...will try to do something when I got my new CS2 install....

[28degree]

think it be quite interesting if there is a video cam capturing all your movements....hehe

[broccoli]

28degree said:

think it be quite interesting if there is a video cam capturing all your movements....hehe

it iwll be titled..."A joker on the move"

[USM]

Jerome, how come you always encounter birdies?

Just like Steve, he always encounters bugs. ;D

[stevewhy]

oh

[lowlights]

stevewhy said:

usm said:

Jerome, how come you always encounter birdies?

Just like Steve, he always encounters bugs. ;D

Ya lor.. Just like you always encounter with so many big red ring lenses.
Hmmm.... which should we prefer

LOL ... I think depends lor.. BIG red rings not bad what ... ;D

[snipper]

lowlights said:

stevewhy said:

Ya lor.. Just like you always encounter with so many big red ring lenses.
Hmmm.... which should we prefer

LOL ... I think depends lor.. BIG red rings not bad what ... ;D

Its an unknown instinct. Once you are concentrated on birds, you are able to see more birds. Likewise if you are a macro shooter you will notice more bugs. Reason is very simple. you goes to a department store with yr wife. You ask her, "did you notice the new camera on display?" The answer wll probrably be no. Like wise if she ask " did you see the new dress on sale?" yr answer would probrable be no too. This is human nature. Thats why I shoot everything.. can see more..Haha.

USM different case.. too much BBB and SSS.. thats why he have lots of whites with Red ring. (Singapore colours???)



Opps... too much OT. bact to TS question. I dont think its worth the efort to correct these photo. I rather spend the time to retake the shots.. Hope you lear the lesson from this experience.. "Always set yr camera settings to the normal mode when its on stand-by" or after every experiment you made.

[stevewhy]

oh

[luvin]

Brudder Broccoli,

Reading your story to the middel section... near the punch line... I thought you like me... start snapping away... then when comes to preview.... "No Image" .... LOL... twice already... start shooting and forgetting to put in the CF Card....

hehehe...

Cheers

[broccoli]

snipper said:

lowlights said:

LOL ... I think depends lor.. BIG red rings not bad what ... ;D

Its an unknown instinct. Once you are concentrated on birds, you are able to see more birds. Likewise if you are a macro shooter you will notice more bugs. Reason is very simple. you goes to a department store with yr wife. You ask her, "did you notice the new camera on display?" The answer wll probrably be no. Like wise if she ask " did you see the new dress on sale?" yr answer would probrable be no too. This is human nature. Thats why I shoot everything.. can see more..Haha.

USM different case.. too much BBB and SSS.. thats why he have lots of whites with Red ring. (Singapore colours???)



Opps... too much OT. bact to TS question. I dont think its worth the efort to correct these photo. I rather spend the time to retake the shots.. Hope you lear the lesson from this experience.. "Always set yr camera settings to the normal mode when its on stand-by" or after every experiment you made.

Yeshh...Agree with Deswitch!!! I dun think the birds are attracted to me...but just that I will take some extra efforts to look, see, hear and feel...same goes for everyone here, you will able see more if you are interested in them, birds are always around us, it only take a minimal effort to identify them...this go the same for insects. marco shooting.

Deswitch, I like your last paragraph...to grief for the lousy shots, why not forget about it and look forward to a new day of shooting...

this saturday morning, Sungei buloh...anyone onz???