Post your best bird shots!

[ddt0725]

It was such a dreary & foggy day for my trip to Horicon Marsh today that the only ones that really turned out are the killdeer photos when the sun started to come out right before I was leaving! Is it normal for very drab days like this to make it hard to auto-focus? They looked sharp and in-focus in my viewfinder but now that I am home, I see many of them are definitely not sharp

Here are a few others from today, I think I slightly over-processed them in an attempt to save them ...

IMG_5973 by Denise Trocio, on Flickr

IMG_5955 by Denise Trocio, on Flickr

IMG_6140 by Denise Trocio, on Flickr

There definitely wasn't too many birds out there, I should have waited a few weeks for my spring trip!

[Joel Eade]

It was such a dreary & foggy day for my trip to Horicon Marsh today that the only ones that really turned out are the killdeer photos when the sun started to come out right before I was leaving! Is it normal for very drab days like this to make it hard to auto-focus? They looked sharp and in-focus in my viewfinder but now that I am home, I see many of them are definitely not sharp

Here are a few others from today, I think I slightly over-processed them in an attempt to save them ...


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You came away with some very nice keepers....did you rent a lens for the trip?

I think low contrast and low light situations definitely affect autofocus capability. Any atmospheric disturbance does too such as heat waves. Mist and fog really make it tough to get razor sharp images.

PS I went out at sunset tonight and found some Killdeer....have to process them and then I will post.

[ddt0725]

You came away with some very nice keepers....did you rent a lens for the trip?

I think low contrast and low light situations definitely affect autofocus capability. Any atmospheric disturbance does too such as heat waves. Mist and fog really make it tough to get razor sharp images.

PS I went out at sunset tonight and found some Killdeer....have to process them and then I will post.

Thanks, Joel! It was very foggy all morning and just plan drab and cold up until about 10 minutes before I was leaving, then the sun came out and temps went up! I ended up just taking my good old 100-400mm which now I am glad I did since there wasn't much to shoot at anyway!

I have a few more killdeer shots to go thru also, looking forward to seeing yours!