Just because there's way too much great photography on this site...!
You know the feeling. You only got one or a few photos of it and they're not very good, but you can't bear to throw the photos away because they're all you have of that particular species. So you keep them, just until you get better ones :) We've managed to 'upgrade' some of the species below since these bad pics were taken, but not all...
Please join in! I can't be the only one who hordes terrible wildlife photos :)
Collared Flycatcher
Otter
Peregrine
and best (worst) of all, Nightjar!
My blog: http://mazzaswildside.blogspot.co.uk/
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Trouble is Bob, I fiddle around with the settings so much I confuse myself ! I did have the shutter on 1/4000 sec. for some of the time but it seemed when I had the higher shutter speed the birds were on the ground and when I switched for ground shots the shutter speed was too low as suddenly the flight shots were the order of the day - hey ho !! I have to read up more on the Time Value mode (these were taken on AV) as each time I try TV the shots turn out too dark ...........back to the drawing board again but I don't mind, it's all a learning experience.
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Regards, Hazel
Thanks so much Bob for all the great info, I really do appreciate it very much and helps me to understand the settings further; I do now tend to look at the bottom of the viewfinder screen to see what the readings are; I guess my brain is in gear some days and gives up on others LOL I always use AV and can get some good shots now and again ......... as you say, all about practice and if I had kept to the usual range of settings I normally use instead of tampering around I should have got better pics on the whole although I must admit today is proving like a better to leave the camera alone sort of day !! Thanks again Bob, you are a star :) I love to practice and can still learn a lot from the bad pics when I go over the settings and when I do get the settings right, it feels just great ......but at the moment, I don't know when that will be !!
Squirrels take cover as phantom flasher Jackdaw appears
Hey HAZY, that is so funny I'm choking on my chinese take-away! ;-p
Classic!
Unicum arbustum haud alit duos erithacos
(One bush does not shelter two Robins)
Zenodotus (3rd Century B.C.)
Aw, my little thread has reached 1,000 posts :)
Love the flasher pic, Hazy, though I have to be my usual insufferably pedantic self and point out that it's a Carrion Crow, not a Jackdaw...!
1001 better be GOOD. :-) ....this is 1000b btw
auditioning for a new film - 'Carry On Flashing' !!
2013 photos & vids here
eff37 on Flickr
Cheers all, and thanks so much Aiki for the ID, I have Jackdaws on the brain at the moment as they are in abundance in our garden right now going crazy for any food I put out .........Alfred Hitchcock "The Birds" has nothing on this lot LOL !!
Here's 'you know who' heading my way!