What a magnificent bird! Do you know what it is? There are some red kites I keep seeing on my way home, but the only chance I had to catch them they were waaay up in the sky so the the shots weren't good for much other than identifying the birds.
The subject's great. The composition is about as good as you could do, given the circumstances. The shot is definitely overexposed in parts - there's no detail in the highlights on the bird. Using centre-weighted metering would probably have helped with this, but I bet you didn't have time to select this. It's also slightly blurry, probably through the subject moving. Again, given the circumstances, I'd be pleased with just getting the shot.
With the speed issue, I'm not sure what you could do. Burst mode might have helped, but I find more often than not that the shot I *really* wanted comes after burst mode's taken its shots and I'm waiting for them all to be written to the card. So unless I know in advance I want three shots in very quick succession, I tend not to use it myself.
Only other things I can suggest are get a quicker camera (I don't think the '5700's too bad in this regard, is it?) or invent a time machine :-)
Message edited by author 2003-05-14 14:52:41.
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