Fill your Frame

Scott Murray

Senior Member
As the title says and i am bad at this especially with wildlife photography I fail to fill my frame of my camera. But today I did something different, I tried to fill my frame and guess what was about to happen. And not always will it be a lot of pics, in this one it took 3 and I am going to show them here all fullframe FX and what can be done. So do not be afraid to fill your frame.

Shot one

Bloody big wings I should have zoomed out... BUT

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Scott Murray

Senior Member
So do not be afraid to shoot full, sure you will lose some but when you get a shot it will be worth it and after all this gig wasn't meant to be easy ;)
 

oldsalt

Senior Member
You don't have to get the "whole" subject in the pic ... it adds to the impact sometimes to let it spill over the edges ... here I've "lost" the ends of the wings & feet but I don't care ... I like the shot.
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and again in this "take-off" picture ...
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J-see

Senior Member
Fill the frame has to be an option. I can do that with gulls... ducks and geese if I'm really lucky, but anything smaller would require bird food mixed with roofies.
 

Scott Murray

Senior Member
But @oldsalt you cropped the gull so it is not giving is its full impact that is what I am trying to say is that if you fill the frame perfectly then it will give you an amazing pic. Overfilling is your choice aswell ;)
 

mikew_RIP

Senior Member
Thats why i keep holding off FX i bet 75% of my subjects are too far away to fill DX,i do know though its a lot better working with a full frame image on DX so if i thought i could achieve it with FX i would be there
 

Scott Murray

Senior Member
Thats why i keep holding off FX i bet 75% of my subjects are too far away to fill DX,i do know though its a lot better working with a full frame image on DX so if i thought i could achieve it with FX i would be there
Ah you are chicken and if all our crocodiles hadn't eaten the chickens I would post one.... Let me find something...
 

Scott Murray

Senior Member
PS it does not matter what focal length your camera is, unless you compose something perfectly to your view. You will never be happy. Trust me on this one as I have been through DX on the D80 and grabbed some great shots. But it was a challenge changing from the DX to FX and losing that magnification. Honestly it made me lazy :)
 

Blacktop

Senior Member
I'm of the thought that by filling the frame , you lose a lot.
Ok, so you fill the frame and now you have a huge bird or a big head of a croc in your shot. While this may be desirable in certain situations but not always.

If we are trying to tell a story with photography, then we need some of the surrounding areas to help us with this.
How am I going to convey a feeling of a bird on a frozen branch foraging for food, if I don't show the whole picture?

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I like space and breathing room in my shots most of the time.
 

J-see

Senior Member
I like filling the frame when it's no longer about the bird but about the detail. Or when doing head-shots.

I'm personally not even that interested in birds; I'm looking for "that" in a bird shot but I wouldn't know what "that" is before it happens. It does not happen often.
 

Bill16

Senior Member
I understand what you mean Scott! I've been working at this very thing myself, and finding it challenging for sure! Of course I was trying to do it with macro on my D700, so it was impossible to get close enough in comparison to my D300! Lol :)

So it was more like a macro scene than a single macro subject! But I'm sorta liking this new way of looking at things! These are very small shells by the way! Lol :)

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