Thank you sir!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kayaker72
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Thank you sir!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kayaker72
Trying to catch song birds in flight for a hour or so this afternoon, this was the best I came up with. I find it very very hard to track their short fast fights back and forth to the bird feeders.
1D MKIV
500mm
ISO 2000
f/4.5
1/2500
http://joeleadephotography.zenfolio....28825035-5.jpg
Love those last two Joel, the violet hues in the mallard wings are beautiful.
Handsome turkeys Brant.
Wow! At f/4.5 to DOF is not much to catch a fast bird in flight. At 10 feet the DOF is less that +/- 1/8" from nominal, and at 20 feet it is just over +/- 1/2". That would be hard to track. Impressive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joel Eade
The malard was very nice also.
I was trying maximize shutter speed....didn't really stop to calculate the DOF....just another factor explaining why it's so hard to get focused on a small bird flying at close range!Quote:
Originally Posted by conropl
Haven't been shooting a lot lately. This typically happens during the school year. However, spring break starts this evening and I'm driving to SE Louisiana. Hopefully I'll be posting some decent pictures in a week or so. Until then, here is a Common Grackle. My backyard is flooded and there are 100s of Grackles hanging out. This one was eye-balling me.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7053/6...53a3d76d_z.jpg
These are a common species but you don't see alot of images of them, they have very nice iridescent colos and I love the bright yellow eye!Quote:
Originally Posted by dsiegel5151
I am continuing to process some duck images I took about 2 weeks ago....was at a city park where the birds will get very close....I wonder what happened to this Mallards bill?
http://joeleadephotography.zenfolio....16749456-5.jpg
Yeah, I'd like to shoot some more Grackles once I get a better lighting setup (i.e., the better beamer you suggested and/or some wireless triggers). They can be very pretty birds. Unfortunately, I had about the worst lighting conditions to work with this morning. I didn't have time to shoot this morning before I had to teach for the sun to get far enough over my house to light up my feeders. So the backlighting was a little too much and I had to use iso settings that I feel are unacceptable for the 40D just to get 1/250s. Hopefully we get more rain this year and I continue to have a bunch visit my flooded yard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joel Eade
Love the Better Beamer ... probably the best "bang for the buck" accessory I have ever seen...it's magical.Quote:
Originally Posted by dsiegel5151