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[Jack Douglas]

You done well!
-r

PS., If you should sell your Canons, keep me in mind, though I'm cheap! Cheap! CHEAP! ;D.

More backlit from today. Maybe I should do like Artie and sell all my Canon gear since "Nikon AF is light years ahead". My Canon won't snap onto these guys at the speed they travel.

Jack

Me thinks a guy who travels the world like you would have no problem paying me a premium.

Jack

 

[lion rock]

I have much greed 8).
-r

Me thinks a guy who travels the world like you would have no problem paying me a premium.

Jack

 

[Jack Douglas]

Redpoll war. I think her eye is actually in focus - kind of.

Jack

 

[ISv]

More backlit from today. Maybe I should do like Artie and sell all my Canon gear since "Nikon AF is light years ahead". My Canon won't snap onto these guys at the speed they travel.

Jack

Ha,ha... hmmm... I have Nikon and it's why I don't take pictures of small birds in fly !

 

[ISv]

Redpoll war. I think her eye is actually in focus - kind of.

Jack

I have to acknowledge it took me big time to find that eye ;D!
Keep shooting Jack, at least for me taking pictures works as perfect medicine against any problems (almost)!

 

[Jack Douglas]

More backlit from today. Maybe I should do like Artie and sell all my Canon gear since "Nikon AF is light years ahead". My Canon won't snap onto these guys at the speed they travel.

Jack

Ha,ha... hmmm... I have Nikon and it's why I don't take pictures of small birds in fly !

No camera can AF this, it's just the luck of the draw and persistence.

Finally a backlit that I think works. I suspect this is a younger male, sure cute!

Jack

 

[Jack Douglas]

Redpoll war. I think her eye is actually in focus - kind of.

Jack

I have to acknowledge it took me big time to find that eye ;D!
Keep shooting Jack, at least for me taking pictures works as perfect medicine against any problems (almost)!

When I joined CR I didn't even know the eye had to be in focus! So, I have at least gained that much knowledge. Now I have to learn how to get it in focus. It is therapy for me since I suffer chronic migraines, like 30 days a month. But the birds make me and CR gear threads make me ;D ;D ;D What dodo birds.

Jack

 

[ISv]

More backlit from today. Maybe I should do like Artie and sell all my Canon gear since "Nikon AF is light years ahead". My Canon won't snap onto these guys at the speed they travel.

Jack

Ha,ha... hmmm... I have Nikon and it's why I don't take pictures of small birds in fly !

No camera can AF this, it's just the luck of the draw and persistence.

Finally a backlit that I think works. I suspect this is a younger male, sure cute!

Jack

It works Jack! And works very well.
(Riley, he is not going to sale his gear after this shot !)

 

[ISv]

Jack, I didn't find anything really backlit in between my pictures (or at least I don't remember where I have to search). These two are the worst case scenario that I succeed to find...
Your redpoll is really great!

 

[lion rock]

Outstanding!!!
The action is a story of its own. Such shots are priceless.
-r

Redpoll war. I think her eye is actually in focus - kind of.

Jack

 

[lion rock]

Nice shots, ISv.
-r

Jack, I didn't find anything really backlit in between my pictures (or at least I don't remember where I have to search). These two are the worst case scenario that I succeed to find...
Your redpoll is really great!

 

[Jack Douglas]

Thanks guys. Before Christmas I bought the MIOPS trigger but have yet to use it. If I can just get the laser setup functioning I'll have a better chance of getting focus ... manually, pre-focused that is. Anyone have experience with this?

Jack

 

[PKinDenmark]

So much stuff to enjoy here.
I have a number of different birds in my garden these mild winter-days in Denmark.
So let me add a selection of these.
All shots made from a comfortable position inside my house through window-glass using Canon 6D, Tamron 150-600 @600mm.
Some of the pictures (the later ones) has a hint of flash added (off camera).

The first - a 'Halemejse' in Danish = Aegithalos caudatus is my favourite.
Partly because of its orange colored eyelids.

 

[PKinDenmark]

... and a few more

 

[Jack Douglas]

PKinDenmark, thanks for posting some interesting and beautiful birds from your area. Nothing wrong with being comfortable when shooting. It'd be nice if we had more areas represented - maybe English is a barrier?

Not sure if you'd be interested in what I've done. My window is casement and I put a plexiglass sheet insert in front of the outward swinging window. Cut a 7" hole and lined it with rubber tubing that was slit. Sprayed the plexi with paint except for a small viewing area above. I rest my telephoto on the rubber and fire away at feeding birds. I can still end up freezing my fingers though. My wife "tolerates" my activities.

Jack

 

[Click]

Very nice series, PKinDenmark.

 

[ISv]

Very good shots PKinDenmark!
By some reasons I love the very first one, probably because I have never seen it alive.

 

[bjd]

Redstart by Diane and Brian Dorling, auf Flickr

Redstart

Cheers Brian

 

[Click]

Very nice. Well done, Brian.

 

[AlanF]

I have been stalking Hawfinches for the past month or so to get a sharp shot of one in a tree. At last, I got a bird in a hornbeam tree that was not too obscured. She was chomping away at the seeds (5DSR 800mm).