Post your best bird shots!

[HDNitehawk]

There was no blinkies on the belly of the fish, but it does look overexposed, what do you think?

Nate


I think its a great capture and looks good. Even if it is overexposed would you have had time to make adjustments [:P]


The local camera store gave me tickets to an EOS Discovery Day by Canon. It was an intermediate Class, I thought it might be a waste of time as it was mostly going over how to turn functions on and off and such....But, I did glean a few ideas from the instructors. One of the instructors was talking about Highlight Tone Priority. The instructors said that many birders use this function, to get more detail out of the blacks and whites on the bird. I just wondered if you enable that function on your's, and what your thoughts were.


Rick

[Sinh Nhut Nguyen]

Thanks HDNitehawk, Highlight Tone Priority is always turned on.


I've been using Auto ISO quite often now, most of the time it is accurate, once in a while it overexposes my image,and I've never experienced underexposed image when Auto ISO is on.

[dsiegel5151]

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Snow Cardinal. I think I'm getting better at this bird stuff. I need to work on a more aesthetically pleasing perch now and am going to try to mount some flashes off the side of the deck to get my shutter speed up a little. It was snowing pretty hard during this picture so disregard the snow blur. Advice other than buy a better camera or lens is always appreciated. Canon 40D, 300mm, f4, 1/200s, iso 320.

[HDNitehawk]

I've been using Auto ISO quite often now, most of the time it is accurate, once in a while it overexposes my image,and I've never experienced underexposed image when Auto ISO is on.

After reading one of Bryan's reviews I started using the Auto ISO as well several weeks back. I have had the 7D for a few months, but I didn't realize it could do this because the 5D wouldn't. This method seems to be doing fine and is the best I have used so far. I go to manual mode, pick the aperture and shutter speed that I like and then balance it so I have the ISO in a range close to where I want it to be. Then let Auto ISO select when things start happening fast, this gives about 3 or 4 stops of range. If it stays between 100-800 I am happy. So far all the mistakes I have seen are my own because I am not fully used to it yet and I usually over expose.

[JJphoto]

dsiegel5151, nice shot! looks pretty sharp to me, maybe you cropped a little too tight IMO.

It was snowing pretty hard during this picture so disregard the snow blur.

Wow you are really addicted.

Advice other than buy a better camera or lens is always appreciated.

hopefully you don't think the 400mm 5.6 is a better lens than you 300mm 4.0[] but I do believe it's better for bird photograph.

[dsiegel5151]

JJphoto: thanks. Yeah, I cropped it a little too tight b/c my birdfeeder has two little concrete birds on it to the right. Hopefully I

[JJphoto]

a friend sold me hers for $700

that was really a sweet deal! I wish I have a friend like your friend[]

I never really imagined that I would enjoy photographing birds so much.

me either!

[neuroanatomist]

when I usually go hiking I have a macro on one body for easily caught amphibians and reptiles and a telephoto on my other body for the ones that are not so easy to catch.... if someone walked up to me tomorrow and offered an even swap of a clean 400 for my clean 300 I probably would take it.

One big advantage of the 300mm f/4L IS over the 400mm f/5.6L (besides the IS, obviously), is the relatively close minimum focus distance. It's ~5 feet with the 300/4, resulting in 0.24x magnification, meaning it does a great job at closeup shots of small, shy critters. The 400/5.6 has an MFD of over 11 feet and a max mag of 0.12x.

[Joel Eade]

White Ibis from my trip to Florida last September, taken with my 1DmkIII and a rented 500mm lens





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[MikeG2012]

Joel,


Beautiful shot! I