Had a wonderful morning taking photographs of birds at Staunton Harold reservoir car park. This is one the best places to take photographs of tree sparrows I know. They hang around a feeding station and give you great views. The best thing is that when the winter sun is out in the morning then they are beautifully lit.
I also want to experiment further with my new wireless remote control. The set up was very simple. Put some food out for birds on a wall and set the camera up to record what happened. I initially used a very short zoom and this was fine apart from the sound of the camera going off spooked the birds. I then changed to a long zoom lens and this seemed to over come the noise problem as the camera was further away. This lead to other problems such as narrow angle of view which meant that I had to ensure I knew the spot where the focus was set up for. I also wanted to use a fast shutter speed. This meant that I had to set my 40D to a high ISO - in this case 800. This caused problems as the camera doesn't perform too well at this speed - too much noise in the resultant image. Anyway I persevered and appear to have captured some interesting images. However, I need to reflect on the lesson from today and work out how best to use the remote set up.
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