I have an image-stabilization zoom lens from Canon that is supposed to give me perfect pictures at slow speeds. I took a bunch of pictures of this Western bluebird today at 1/60. I wasn't satisfied with most of them. I think the color is oversaturated at that speed, maybe a poor combination between the light, the zoom lens and the CCD sensor on my camera. But after making some color adjustments in Gimp, I did like this one:
Here's what you can expect at 1/60 when motion is involved (bad, bad, bad!):
I'm going to keep playing with shutter speeds. I think 1/100 is the slowest I'll go from now on.
One thing I have learned: My camera is a better photographer than I am. Whenever I use a creative setting, if the picture is important I try to follow up with full automatic just to be safe.
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