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Because of the tripod and rather high speed (1/800s at ISO 1600). And the usual added sharpens in PL4 +0.66 (at stable ground for the tripod I decrease the sharpening or ignore it at all for this lens). No sharpening for detail or Local sharpening (in this particular case!). The problem there was the ground under the tripod - some dry leafs with a gravel underneath. When you chase a bird jumping from branch to branch and tree to tree you don't choose the ground under your tripod
- you better use it more like monopod...
On other hand my best photos in this case came from ISO 2500, 1/50-60 to 1/125s - with more time to make the tripod acting as a tripod!
- you better use it more like monopod...On other hand my best photos in this case came from ISO 2500, 1/50-60 to 1/125s - with more time to make the tripod acting as a tripod
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Nice detail. What kind of bird is this?Later in the evening I read that it's considered practically extirpated on Oahu and Molokai! It can explain why I have never seen it before on Oahu and why there are not substantiated records for the island in the last years.
Anyway - thanks for the "very nice shots"!
The one below: I had no idea what to do with it. I shot small burst between the branches. The head got in good focus and after the cropping I can use this as a "real portrait"
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Garrulax canorum
! You can find the common name on the previous page?
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Nice shot Alan. Our their tails red, or is that just the light coming through?
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Nice shots Alan. We call those Hawks here in the USA.
This article may shed some light on the topic. https://www.thespruce.com/buzzards-vs-vultures-4171318
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Haha. Yes we call them the same thing. Funny you just posted this because I saw about 10 of them circling over our neighborhood a couple of days ago. I couldn't make out what they were because they were too far away so I grabbed my 100-500 and shot a couple pics to see if I could determine what they were. I was a able to bring the shadows up just enough to determine they were Turkey Vultures. Anyway I wish they had come closer so I could have gotten some shots like yours. Nice job.
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If you read that article, you know, it's kind of the Europeans fault that we call them Vultures and Buzzards. lol
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Because of some crass comments about f/11 being so narrow and these lenses an abomination, I just nipped out and took a couple of evening shots with the 800mm f/11 + 1.4x @ 1120mm f/16 of a Blue Tit on my feeder, at over 13m (40ft) away. Here are two crops from the centre.
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