Thanks again for everyone's guidance regarding my recent purchase of a 60D. I've had the camera now for almost a month, but haven't had a lot of time to work with it. I realize that the 60d is old news, but for $460 it was an easy justification as a upgrade from my T1i.
So this weekend I set up my portable deer blind at a ridiculously close position next to our bird feeder. We are frequented daily by a woodpecker family and various cardinals, warblers, blue jays, and of course - squirrels. I wanted to see the image quality as I've read criticisms about the noise levels on the 18M sensors.
Normally I would shoot manual and am comfortable doing so on my T1i. I'm not fully acclimated to the 60D yet, so I was shooting in AV with the aperture set to F2.8. I was using a 70-200 Mk II and a monopod. I did crop the output and edit in LR.
Overall, I was happy with the pictures. I did have a lot of OOF shots that I will chalk up to my mistake, but I have also noticed that other shots I've taken with other lenses seem soft too. I'll investigate this more in the coming weeks. I hope I don't have to have my lenses/camera calibrated, but if I do then I do.
So, what did I learn from this morning's events? I learned that chickadee's are lightning fast - holy cow I had a hard time keeping up with them. They act as if they had 5 red bulls before eating. I also learned that when I go out to do something, that's when mother nature will change her routine - the woodpeckers did not show, no blue jays either. I got to see a sap sucker, 2 chickadees, and some cardinals - one which was missing his crest and half of the feathers on his face. He looked like the bird version of the walking dead and I did not photograph him. All in all, the few pictures I kept I thought were good and I wanted to share them with the community.
Thanks again for those of you who answered my previous 60D questions and encouraged me to jump on the deal. I'm looking forward to furthering my photography techniques with this camera.
-wes
So this weekend I set up my portable deer blind at a ridiculously close position next to our bird feeder. We are frequented daily by a woodpecker family and various cardinals, warblers, blue jays, and of course - squirrels. I wanted to see the image quality as I've read criticisms about the noise levels on the 18M sensors.
Normally I would shoot manual and am comfortable doing so on my T1i. I'm not fully acclimated to the 60D yet, so I was shooting in AV with the aperture set to F2.8. I was using a 70-200 Mk II and a monopod. I did crop the output and edit in LR.
Overall, I was happy with the pictures. I did have a lot of OOF shots that I will chalk up to my mistake, but I have also noticed that other shots I've taken with other lenses seem soft too. I'll investigate this more in the coming weeks. I hope I don't have to have my lenses/camera calibrated, but if I do then I do.
So, what did I learn from this morning's events? I learned that chickadee's are lightning fast - holy cow I had a hard time keeping up with them. They act as if they had 5 red bulls before eating. I also learned that when I go out to do something, that's when mother nature will change her routine - the woodpeckers did not show, no blue jays either. I got to see a sap sucker, 2 chickadees, and some cardinals - one which was missing his crest and half of the feathers on his face. He looked like the bird version of the walking dead and I did not photograph him. All in all, the few pictures I kept I thought were good and I wanted to share them with the community.
Thanks again for those of you who answered my previous 60D questions and encouraged me to jump on the deal. I'm looking forward to furthering my photography techniques with this camera.
-wes