Show your Bird Portraits
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I had to concentrate on this for at least half a minute before I was finally able to see it as an outside corner.
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I like the way they are looking at each other, though their thoughts probably differ.One of the local Osprey nabbed a pretty nice fish, a Yellowfin Croaker(I think), and brought it back to a nearby post. Sadly I didn't even see it catch the fish and just happened to hear the ruckus as it landed.
R5 600 II w/1.4X III 1/2500 : f/8 : ISO 1000
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The Little Egret visited us again and was joined by another. The weather was horrible this morning but there was a sufficient break in the sleet to fire off several hundred shots to get some that were not really obscured by branches and had the two together with their beaks showing and not too far away from each other. The 400mm DO II + 2xTC on the R5 performed a bit better than the 500mm PF on the D500 or D850. Unlike the one on the TDP site, my latest 400mm DO II is sharpest wide open and is very sharp at 800mm f/8. It's sharper at 400mm f/4 than my two 100-400mm IIs at f/5.6, consistent with the Lensrentals 400mm shootout results, unlike the TDP copy, which has to be stopped down to f/5.6. The focussing at f/8 is just so good on the R5.
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I have a new friend!!!!
Pacific Golden Plover, it came around in a juvenile attire, now molting to first winter/adult. Honestly, when it came here I was not sure it will survive. Malnourished, very tired bird... Now it looks much better and it is the only Pacific Golden Plover (18 years!!!) that is coming as close as 1.5-2.00 meters from me (no tricks from my side!!!), it's just coming closer and closer!!! They usually flush at 7-30 (and even more) meters from you - depends on the location and their experience with humans...
But it's if I have no lens/camera (mounted on tripod) with me, and I'm not kneeling! Otherwise I have to make my tricks to get really close to it (hiding and etc).
In this case just 3.55 meters after hiding behind an Eucalyptus tree and waiting 3-10 minutes for the bird to emerge behind the tree. My goal was to take a portrait.
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Pacific Golden Plover, it came around in a juvenile attire, now molting to first winter/adult. Honestly, when it came here I was not sure it will survive. Malnourished, very tired bird... Now it looks much better and it is the only Pacific Golden Plover (18 years!!!) that is coming as close as 1.5-2.00 meters from me (no tricks from my side!!!), it's just coming closer and closer!!! They usually flush at 7-30 (and even more) meters from you - depends on the location and their experience with humans...
But it's if I have no lens/camera (mounted on tripod) with me, and I'm not kneeling! Otherwise I have to make my tricks to get really close to it (hiding and etc).
In this case just 3.55 meters after hiding behind an Eucalyptus tree and waiting 3-10 minutes for the bird to emerge behind the tree. My goal was to take a portrait.
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It was pointed out by a forum member in the discussion about the new f/11 lenses that they are meant for filling the frame and not for deep cropping. But, it's nice if you can do better than that. Yesterday was really bright for the winter here and I managed to capture some shots of European Goldfinches about 20m away using the 400 DO at 800mm. These are severe crops of the centre of the R5 sensor with the little bird in the first being less than 1000px long and the next two only about 600px. The really fine detail isn't there because there are not enough pixels to resolve them but the acutance is OK. I am really pleased with the performance of the prime lens but I hope I can get a 100-500mm for lightness.
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Wow, was the camera actually tracking the eye in the last shot? I'm also wondering about the 100-500, so hurry up and buy it and start reporting!!
I've been managing reasonably well with 800 and 20 MP so I'm pretty excited about having 45MP. I'm more concerned in the realm of low light and higher ISO performance.
Jack
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