What DOF setting and SS are you using?
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That pic was 1/320,F5.0,iso5000.
It was a quick pic in very low light late in the day,not much good.
Been raining and overcast for the last week,so i haven't been able to get a good pic of them.I really want a BIF of them,but that is impossible in the recent weather conditions.
With that SS the birds should be sharper, crack the DOF to F11 and see what happens.
Reduce the ISO to about 400 if the conditions allow it. Perhaps at the ISO set up that you are using there is a bit of noise that will be make the image soft after cleaning.
Cheers
well was playing with the soligor setup this morning trying to work out how to get there on the d7000 when two old mates rolled up
pity i had the aperture down to f/22 as i was playing around so it was under exposed big time...
wish i could have got it back to f/3.5 before they took flight ..
had to do a fair bit of pp so gave it that aged feeling to boot...
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...016/02/682.jpg
birdsofafeather by Dave Blears, on Flickr
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...016/02/675.jpg
a shot i had time to take properly with the 200mm :p
handheld, no vr etc, manual everything...
what could i do to improve it?
What was the focusing system being used and if single was focal pt on the eye?
Cheers
A wedgetail eagle and its nest in Canberra.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...016/02/412.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...016/02/413.jpg
one fuzzy butcher bird
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...016/02/402.jpg
taken with the old 200mm soligor from about 10 feet away on my wobbly old tripod :p
That old Soligor is a nice piece of glass
first shot with a decent tripod yay..
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...016/02/348.jpg
whatyouthinkyourdoing by Dave Blears, on Flickr