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Dan McCulloughA little zoom in on the trees above me from where I stood to take my "silent sunday" picture. One by one, these gorgeous black-crowned night herons kept flying in and lighting in the trees. Spectacular and otherworldly.
The night herons are just so pleasingly grubby and watercolor this time of year.
Yvonne ‘looks undocumented’@handmade_ghost you got the focus perfectly on the bird’s head! my iphone struggles with scenes like this, sometimes I miss having an actual camera
@grammasaurus There are many companion shots to this one that are nothing but highly focused branchlets! 😂😭 But, yes, it definitely helps to have a point and shoot with a good reach and focus features. 💚
@handmade_ghost “highly focused branchlets”—-yes, that’s been my experience. I feel like I’m lucky if I get a photo that looks like I intended it.
Lately I’ve been trying to take night photos of holiday lights, and wow—the results are terrible. Just as I push the shutter, the camera goes out of focus and I get blurry blobs of color, which can look kinda cool, but…..not what I hoped for.
@grammasaurus I definitely know this experience! I took a phone photo of my family with a backdrop of holiday lights we found in the park, and not only did I manage to capture only blobs for the lights, they somehow distorted our faces so we looked like an eerie challenge drawing that had been blurred by rain. It was so strange!
@handmade_ghost wow! Just what you want for a holiday photo—not!
I wonder what the mechanism is in the phone that suddenly goes wonky in low light and can’t properly focus.
lfisk@grammasaurus @handmade_ghost Guessing... auto mode often does a reevaluation before taking the photo. Resets exposure and focus then takes pic🙄
Are you using a touch to pick a spot to focus on setting in your app?
pandabutter@handmade_ghost Night herons are the official bird of [place where I live], but they can be found all over the world—so it always makes me a little happy to see them! Like a little taste of home.
@pandabutter They are such wonderful birds! 💚
Ellen ❄️@handmade_ghost I'm guessing they weren't that silent, if there were that many of them.
@Starry1086 Actually, the ducks and the herons were almost eerily silent--maybe because of the impending storm?