Animals - Kivrin

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Female Mallard Portrait, f/4.5, 1/400 sec, ISO-800

These ducks must have thought I had food on me. I own a 50 mm fixed lens and I was afraid I wasn't going to be able to get close enough to get good photos of animals, but that's less of a problem when they're less than 3 feet away from me. I like the composition of this photo, the quality of the light is nice, and you can see her eye despite it being in the shadow of her face. My main problem with this is that there is no movement or action. It very much feels like you're staring down a motionless duck that doesn't do anything. 
 
 
 
Male Mallard Portrait, f/4.5, 1/4000 sec, ISO-800
 I'm less proud of this photo. My entire photoshoot, I had my viewfinder calibrated wrong so most of my images ended up being out of focus. Many of the photos that I originally thought were out of focus ended up being the few that were actually usable. This image, once again has nice light quality and colors. But this one has very little depth or action in it. It demonstrates what a mallard looks like, but beyond that it's pretty boring.
 

 
Mean Goose f/4.5, 1/1250 sec, ISO-800

This is the first time I've ever cropped an image off this camera, and I realize now why I don't do that. The grain in the image goes up fast the moment you start trying to focus on a single part of the camera. My number one major problem with this photo is the grain. What I like about this photo is that I captured the action of this goose making weird noises and bullying the entire rest of the flock. This one goose for around 10 minutes swam around biting all the other geese and screaming and I managed to get a good photo of it in action.

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