Another Nikon guy! Glad to see you are doing it properly
Welcome to the POTD thread. Nice opening photo.
Almost went mirrorless (Sony a6500 was another option), but in my reading up on the hardware, there were mentions of autofocus being slower on mirrorless vs. DLSRs. I imagine 300+ focus points vs. 51 might have something to do with that. But 90% of my photos will be of kids and focus needs to be as quick as possible with kids! Very happy with my Nikon thus far though.
Nice! Welcome! For an image like this with lots of light, I would probably stop down the aperture a bit. It looks like you caught focus on the foam, which is great, but with the rocks, and especially bird, I feel like they should be in focus as well, and right now they are a bit soft. It could just be way the image was saved for web, though.
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Even in the full resolution image, these points are a bit soft too. I only recently acquired the 50mm f/1.8 lens, so I’ve been leaning toward wide open aperture; you’re exactly right - I narrowed my focal length too much with that. I appreciate your input!!
I read and watched so much on all this - on focal length, aperture, but it all goes kablooey when you’re out shooting. Ha!