DEER!!!!

Went down a small trail to try and catch some shots of a eagle sitting out on the water and found these two little ones staring at me.

fell free to tell me waht you think

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just noticed that they were a little out of focus........oh well

Yes they are a bit out of focus, and that really too bad because I think the first one would have been very good.

Was this with your 70-200? Weird if it is because they are usually razor sharp. Maybe you'll get another shot at them if you go back.

It's a pity that in similar occasion that shoot was outfocus.

jm4ever wrote in post #8253854
Yes they are a bit out of focus, and that really too bad because I think the first one would have been very good.

Was this with your 70-200? Weird if it is because they are usually razor sharp. Maybe you'll get another shot at them if you go back.

yeah used my 70-200, I think I ned to get all mygear cleaned.

First looks like it focused just behind the frist Deer.

Second is camera shake. The shutter speed on the second was 1/25 you needed to up the ISO a bit.

Would have been a nice shot though.

Scott, I wanted to help you determine why your photos were blurry, and looked at the exif embedded in your photos to get the camera settings for these 2 images. The second photo was taken with a shutter speed of only 1/25 sec. which is too slow to get a sharp image under those circumstances. The first image was 1/200, and while that gives you a much better chance to get a sharp image it is still not fast enough to prevent noticeable motion blur unless the camera and subject are relatively still. Is your 70-200 f/4 lens the IS version? IS will help, but with enough camera movement it still won't guarantee a sharp photo. In light like that, bumping the ISO to 800 or even 1600 would have helped you to get enough faster shutter speed to help a lot.

Did you notice where the camera focus point(s) were on these shots? When there are so many objects such as brush, limbs, and grass between you and the subject sometimes the camera will lock focus onto to unwanted objects.

While lenses and sometimes the sensor do need periodical cleaning, I think low shutter speed and perhaps a little bit of camera shake (movement) were the mostly causes for your photos to be blurry.

Mitch beat me to it!

M50D wrote in post #8257770
Scott, I wanted to help you determine why your photos were blurry, and looked at the exif embedded in your photos to get the camera settings for these 2 images. The second photo was taken with a shutter speed of only 1/25 sec. which is too slow to get a sharp image under those circumstances. The first image was 1/200, and while that gives you a much better chance to get a sharp image it is still not fast enough to prevent noticeable motion blur unless the camera and subject are relatively still. Is your 70-200 f/4 lens the IS version? IS will help, but with enough camera movement it still won't guarantee a sharp photo. In light like that, bumping the ISO to 800 or even 1600 would have helped you to get enough faster shutter speed to help a lot.

Did you notice where the camera focus point(s) were on these shots? When there are so many objects such as brush, limbs, and grass between you and the subject sometimes the camera will lock focus onto to unwanted objects.

While lenses and sometimes the sensor do need periodical cleaning, I think low shutter speed and perhaps a little bit of camera shake (movement) were the mostly causes for your photos to be blurry.

Well I took them pretty quick, I wasn't sure how long they were going to stay there so I wanted to hurry up and get some shots off.

I wish it was the IS version..............n​eed some money before I can afford that. After spending all day out at Mt Rainer today and looking at the photos, I would say it was do to camera shake. I need to start taking my mono pod out with me.

thanks for the help everyone.

At 1/25 Sec it would be really hard to get a steady shot even with IS.
Even the slightest movement of the target subject would blur even if you had a monopod.
It appears your lens was wide open at f4 so the only thing you could do to up the speed is increase the ISO to around 800 as M50D said. The downside of that would be the increased noise, not sure how bad it is on a 30d.
I think we have all run into this issue at one time or another

Better luck next time