This picture was taken at Trafalgar Square in London. Obviously not on the central slabbed section that is instantly recognizable, but near the back. There were so many pigeons there I took a number of shots that I thought looked quite nice as a kind of sea of pigeons – but then this little girl ran in to the pigeons scattering them everywhere. The pigeons seem to be clever enough to work out that they don’t want to be kicked, but not stupid enough to think the danger posed is huge, so they don’t make that much effort to get out of the way! This probably happens to them several times daily.
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Hi Dave,
Love this shot. I’m trying to improve my photography and beginning to understand concepts such as ‘depth of field’ etc and try and apply these concepts to my own shots.
Obviously this is a good example of a narrow DOF. Did you use your Ixus to do this (and if so, how?)
Hope you don’t mind me asking you for some secrets.
Mark
Posted 18 Nov 2007 at 1:30 pm ¶Hi Mark,
I didn’t use the Ixus for this, I used my Nikon D50 with a 50mm lens - basically, the larger the aperture opens, the narrower the depth of field gets. Any camera that has an aperture priority mode makes this kind of thing easy really. I can’t do that on the Ixus, but I have seen plenty of compact cameras that have more controls (basically aperture priority mode so that you can alter the aperture and let the camera look after the other variables).
Posted 18 Nov 2007 at 5:06 pm ¶Cheers Dave.
I have an understanding of DOF. Just can’t play with it much on my Ixus.
Toying with the idea of getting a DSLR this Xmas…
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