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These are from today: windy (~28mph sustained and up to 40 in the gusts) -it's hard to frame or simply avoid a leafs/branches getting between the object and the lens. If I was Pro I would avoid shooting in these conditions - most probably! I'm just trying to get some experience for such conditions and it's a drop by drop (and I believe it will pay in the future...)

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A Hooded Merganser drake showing off after a nap.
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R3 RF600 w/1.4x 1/2500 : f/8 : ISO 1000

A Reddish Egret showing all the boys and girls how to say 'ahhhh'.
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R3 RF600 w/1.4x 1/1000 : f/11 : ISO 640

Female American Kestrel checking the tail feathers.
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R3 RF600 w/1.4x 1/4000 : f/6.3 : ISO 1000
Nice shots ERHP!
 
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Two from yesterday: nothing interesting from the birds so I just decided to take few shots in low light conditions. On not really stable tripod (well, the tripod is top but situated on very unstable ground...). ISO 2000, f 8.0 and speeds: for the first one 1/80s, the second is 1/100s ...
Off course you don't expect quality photos at these conditions (espetially with crop camera!) but they should work for documentation/eventually for ID.
BTW: I found the new basic sharpening in PL6 (+1) a little bit to much for these light conditions (they just look non natural!). Decreasing the microcontrast didn't help... These are at +0.55 and look somewhat better (and still not what I want:LOL:). Anyway - this is what I got yesterday. Today it was worst -I got nothing from the birds!

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