If at first you don't succeed.....

It never fails, I will be out and about without my camera and miss a photo opportunity. Last week I was out walking Roxy and heard hundreds (not exaggerating) of birds hiding in the trees and reeds. I went home and returned with my camera waiting around trying to capture the birds in flight. I knew I had to set my shutter speed to capture the action and the only way this novice knew how to do this was to change the ISO setting to 800. Below are two pictures from this day and as you can see they are very grainy due to the high ISO setting (around 3pm).

 

Bill and I went out to Lake Natomas in Folsom this morning to walk and I decided I better take my camera. Bill found these two shots (he has an eye for photography... it is only a matter of time that he catches the bug and wants to learn how to use the camera).

I decide I needed to go back to the marshy area by the house to try making some adjustments and get some clearer photos (still bothered about the pictures taken last week).  I decided to forget about capturing the birds in flight and focused on the trees, pussy-willows and a few birds hanging around the trees. I took these around 1:00pm with at 100 ISO.