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<blockquote data-quote="Clovishound" data-source="post: 843215" data-attributes="member: 50197">And some of these images could not be done in the field, even with extraordinary luck. Here is one of my first composites. I was at a small lake photographing birds, there was a nice moon in the sky that morning. I heard a flock of geese approaching. I thought I might have a shot at getting a flock of geese with a large moon behind them. I prefocused on moon and waited. The flock came through and lined up decently with the moon in the background. I fired away, tracking the geese. Unfortunately, the camera kept focus lock on the moon, and the geese were very blurry. I got one shot as they passed beyond the moon where the lock shifted to the geese. I reluctantly made a composite of the moon before the geese got into the frame, and the in focus geese shot. Unfortunately, I had to remove one of the geese from the flock because of a branch in the way (in for a penny, in for a pound). The ironic thing is that I probably couldn't have gotten both the moon and the geese in focus in the same image, but it was more accurate to what I saw than a shot where the camera would have actually focused on the birds the whole time, although the placement in this was undoubtedly more perfect than I could have gotten in camera.[ATTACH=full]426272[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Clovishound, post: 843215, member: 50197"] And some of these images could not be done in the field, even with extraordinary luck. Here is one of my first composites. I was at a small lake photographing birds, there was a nice moon in the sky that morning. I heard a flock of geese approaching. I thought I might have a shot at getting a flock of geese with a large moon behind them. I prefocused on moon and waited. The flock came through and lined up decently with the moon in the background. I fired away, tracking the geese. Unfortunately, the camera kept focus lock on the moon, and the geese were very blurry. I got one shot as they passed beyond the moon where the lock shifted to the geese. I reluctantly made a composite of the moon before the geese got into the frame, and the in focus geese shot. Unfortunately, I had to remove one of the geese from the flock because of a branch in the way (in for a penny, in for a pound). The ironic thing is that I probably couldn't have gotten both the moon and the geese in focus in the same image, but it was more accurate to what I saw than a shot where the camera would have actually focused on the birds the whole time, although the placement in this was undoubtedly more perfect than I could have gotten in camera. [ATTACH type="full"]426272[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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