Feather

[neevosh]

Hey everyone, this is my first post. I took this picture of a feather the other day, and was wanting some feedback. I tried to get the feather to glide out of my hands, and out of about 30 pictures this is my favorite. I couldn't quite get everything to stay in focus, as the wind was blowing more than I wanted.

[subrataofkris]

Welcome to the forum neevosh,

I would suggest that you try to keep the hand out of focus as a suggestion and keep the whole feather sharply focussed. You have a good camera, experiment with it.

[baseballboy828]

You shot this is at f/5.6. Try f/16 or f/22. Just experiment.

[aadam_21]

This is a good concept, but maybe you could try a crop to remove your fingers from the composition and also put it on an angle to give more of an impression of the feather gliding through the air.

I'm certainly no expert, but keep playing with the focus. It looks like either your camera was auto focusing on your hand, or maybe the movement of the feather caused a little motion blur.

[neevosh]

Thanks for the feedback. As soon as I let the feather go it would blow out of focus. I should have tried to anticipate the movement and focused on that point.

[Nicole]

If you aren't already, try using manual focus to get the feather in focus, difficult, but not impossible. Mostly difficult because you have to try to stay the same distance away after turning on manual focus.

Also, another vote for hand out of focus, feather in focus