Actually, it wasn't a digital.... it was an OM-2n. Sorry about the
confusion. Thanks for the tips!
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Dan Mitchell
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 10:10 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Negatives question
Matthew Bristol wrote:
> Any hints for what I should have done differently to better compose
and
> execute these shots?
The following shots were taken with a digital (coolpix 4500) with
flash just by taking closeup shots of the birds as they sat on a couch
next to me / leg / table. No retouching at all, just resizing. The
secret is a small digicam flash so that it won't illuminate the
background, and thus you magically get a black backdrop. (not perfectly
black; in the "Piper" shot, you can see a bit of something in the bottom
left, but you get the idea).
http://www.danielmitchell.net/sgal/index.php?gallery=./nikon/birds
Depending on how much control you have over your camera, you could try
winding the flash power down a bit, or as someone else has suggested,
tape a bit of paper over it. As for composition, it's a digital, just
keep trying until you get a shot you like! Those are picked from about
thirty shots I took trying for head closeups, and a _lot_ more general
bird shots.
-- dan
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