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Gannet. I've taken a few pics of them recently and found them tricky. I've not been overly happy with a lack of percieved detail / sharpness, but i'm wondering if thats a function of their downy feathers, perhaps they just don't have the visual detail i'd decided they should.


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saladin said:
Gannet. I've taken a few pics of them recently and found them tricky. I've not been overly happy with a lack of percieved detail / sharpness, but i'm wondering if thats a function of their downy feathers, perhaps they just don't have the visual detail i'd decided they should.


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Some of it's tricky lighting, some of it may still be slight motion blur, but a lot of it looks to be the way their feathers are so small and compact. They're practically downy to keep the heat in and all, so they look a bit..."woolier" than most birds; I don't usually see pics with much feather detail unless they are drying out/on the ground. The one other thing you might try out, is that I have struggled with sharpness/detail on in-flights when using IS at above 1/800 as there seems to be some odd harmonic match to my camera shake at 1/1200 to around 1/2500. It's weird, but simple to adapt to if that winds up being the case.
 

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