my first BIF after taking advice from members

after taking the advice of a few members i went looking for some birds,
this is my first BIF shot,
Canon 1DMKIIN with Sigma 150-500 OS HSM APO

Results look pretty nice. I can easily see the detail in the gulls head.

Very well done Corey. Great position left to right in the composition, just open up your crop some to make the bird less cramped for space.

Is this scaled down at all? It looks nice and sharp, but to judge it truly, it would help to know if it's a full crop. Either way, not at all bad, especially for your first go at it!

From what I can tell from the EXIF, you were at the Bigma's full 500mm zoom, shooting at 1/1000, ISO 200 at f/8. Obviously, if you were able to hit ISO 200 and stop down to 8, light conditions were good---and it helped to have a bird who's very light colored! To get a detailed photo like this of, say, a Bald Eagle or something darker, you'd probably have needed to be wide open at ISO 400.

I'd like to see a full-crop (in the event that this one isn't). Mainly because it strikes me that 1/1000 is a bit slow for motion-freezing at 500mm, even for a relatively slow-moving bird. But I've seen it done before! Generally I keep my BIF shutter at 1/1600 or faster, and that's shooting at 400mm.

this is how it came strait of cam, pretty much just prossesed the RAW and posted to photobucket and posted here, cheers guys thanks heaps.
Hey how do you veiw exif? i had exif veiwer on my old XP machine but ive gone to win7 64bit and it wont work now.

noahcomet wrote in post #12115550
Is this scaled down at all? It looks nice and sharp, but to judge it truly, it would help to know if it's a full crop. Either way, not at all bad, especially for your first go at it!

From what I can tell from the EXIF, you were at the Bigma's full 500mm zoom, shooting at 1/1000, ISO 200 at f/8. Obviously, if you were able to hit ISO 200 and stop down to 8, light conditions were good---and it helped to have a bird who's very light colored! To get a detailed photo like this of, say, a Bald Eagle or something darker, you'd probably have needed to be wide open at ISO 400.

I'd like to see a full-crop (in the event that this one isn't). Mainly because it strikes me that 1/1000 is a bit slow for motion-freezing at 500mm, even for a relatively slow-moving bird. But I've seen it done before! Generally I keep my BIF shutter at 1/1600 or faster, and that's shooting at 400mm.

not scaled, i was shooting a few surfers at a local reef when i saw this seagaul flying near me, just kinda zoomed paned and grab the shutter release and held on haha, this was the sharpest one i could find. first attempt at BIF and only been using the 150-500 for a bout ten mins before hand, ive borrowed it off my mate to test before buying one, i wanted to compare it to my EF 300mm F4L with Canon 1.4x tc and my EF 400mm 5.6L

Then you did really well! No criticisms.

I had to download an EXIF viewer plugin for my Mozilla browser. (I think it's just called EXIF viewer.)

Gotta love when those fast grabs turn out!

Flo wrote in post #12121043
Gotta love when those fast grabs turn out!

yeah its great when its like "WHOLEY LOOK AT THAT SNAPSNAPSNAPSNAPSNAPSN​AP......WOO KEEPER"

noahcomet wrote in post #12121023
Then you did really well! No criticisms.

I had to download an EXIF viewer plugin for my Mozilla browser. (I think it's just called EXIF viewer.)

Thanks kindly, ill check it out now

Well, if this is your first, I anxiously await more!

Diamond Lil wrote in post #12123568
Well, if this is your first, I anxiously await more!

thanks!