2n10 said:
Ah, just wait till I get my new camera tomorrow. I'll probably trip while I'm running after my first bird and wreck it!
Jack
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Ah, just wait till I get my new camera tomorrow. I'll probably trip while I'm running after my first bird and wreck it!
Jack
Hi Jack.
Didn't anyone tell you not to run with cameras! ;D
I hope your camera gives you great enjoyment and I'm sure you will share some pictures.
Cheers, Graham.
Didn't anyone tell you not to run with cameras! ;D
I hope your camera gives you great enjoyment and I'm sure you will share some pictures.
Cheers, Graham.
Jack Douglas said:
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Graham, now you have told me so I have no excuse, thank you. I'm very pleased with F8 800mm AF and the reach is really helpful except of course for fast moving birds where it can be a bit much. No good models have volunteered yet so I guess I'll have to pay (feed them). 
The camera is an absolute pleasure making the weight less of a focus. Shutter sound is a little harder to swallow.
Jack
The camera is an absolute pleasure making the weight less of a focus. Shutter sound is a little harder to swallow.
Jack
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What's interesting about this golden-crowned kinglet isn't the image quality, but the circumstances. I'm accustomed to seeing them high in the trees, deep among the branches, in very poor light. They usually move too quickly to get a decent shot of any kind. In this case, I was just standing quietly on the trail in filtered light, and this guy landed below head height just a few feet from me. In the uncropped photo he covers about 1/3 of the frame horizontally. He posed nicely for several seconds, then flew across the trail and posed slightly further away for a while.
1/400 @ f/5.6, ISO 800. 70D+100-400L (v1) @ 400mm.
1/400 @ f/5.6, ISO 800. 70D+100-400L (v1) @ 400mm.
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Orangutan said:
That is a great stroke of luck and shot. My experience is the same with them here.
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2n10 said:
Very nice and a special little shot of adrenaline I'm sure. Shots happening like this make me float on air for the day.
My recipe for greatest luck is to take a hiking stool or if possible a chair and find a good prospect location and just sit - reading, reviewing photos or whatever and more often than not there are visitors. I think they get curious!
I had a scenario like this one time and a moose wandered right up so close my 600 mm was way too much. He looked me right in the eye and I'm sure he smiled. Now if it was a bear ...... ??
Jack
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Arthur, always nice to see even the common ones. I think your robin has the edge over ours. If I can just get a half sunny day (ISO 12800 is not my cup of tea) I hope to have some of my common ones to post too (the heavy snow has brought them out in droves to the places I scatter seed).
Jack
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Thanks Click/Jack, the weather here is on the turn, nothing like what you have Jack, we are only a few weeks into autumn and I am missing the summer already, not that I don't like the seasons changing, last few days have been very mixed weather/light, ISO12800 is a good indication of poor light and I bet your keen to get out Jack.
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Jack Douglas said:2n10 said:
Very nice and a special little shot of adrenaline I'm sure. Shots happening like this make me float on air for the day.
My recipe for greatest luck is to take a hiking stool or if possible a chair and find a good prospect location and just sit - reading, reviewing photos or whatever and more often than not there are visitors. I think they get curious!
I had a scenario like this one time and a moose wandered right up so close my 600 mm was way too much. He looked me right in the eye and I'm sure he smiled. Now if it was a bear ...... ??
Jack
I've seen this mentioned before, and I plan to try it when I have the time. Thanks.
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Orangutan, you hit it on the head - time. When I make the time I find that is really quality time, just peacefully sitting in nature and contemplating whatever - blessings of life and reasons to be thankful.
The bird is the ice cream on the pie.
Jack
The bird is the ice cream on the pie.
Jack
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