PCKit wrote:
Petkal I am always amazed at your birds in flight.. My self assigned project for the summer is to practice, practice, practice this. I have been considering picking up a 1DIIN, I had a 1DII for a while and many of my favorite pics were shot with it. I have regretted letting it go.
Thank you, Kathy.....glad to hear you like the stuff. With a bit of practice you'll do BIF photography great because I sense you have the passion in you.
Since you are getting your 5DMkIII soon, that may turn out to be the best camera yet for fast action photography including birds in flight.
It is obviously best to practice on whatever birds happen to be most common in your area. Hopefully, it is not too easy (e.g. Canada goose, Sandhill crane, Bald eagle, Pelican...) and it shouldn't be too difficult either (e.g., pijuns and doves, Starlings, Robins), nor extreme (Barn swallows, House sparrows...). BTW, I think that seagulls make excellent practice targets, where available, because of a medium capture difficulty.
That is some treat you've got for us, Robert........I think Edd will have a bird when he sees your 150-600L in action. You seem to be getting a very fine image quality with it. I can recognize the Snowy owl, but boy oh boy, your Albertan raccoons sure look different from ours.
Thanks Peter. Yes our racoons are mischievious always getting into the red hair colouring, but they sure like to hide behind the needles and branches, thankfully the150-600 has zoom capabilities.
oh wow, these are absolutely fabulous. That is a snowy owl right? We drove over 2 hours each way to try to see and photograph those in here in Missouri at Smithville Lake. Not one single sighting that day, or after, but my hubby did manage to run over my smartphone which fell out of the car as I jumped out with my camera to shoot some geese coming in for a landing.
Jefferson wrote:
...ps...there is a TreeRat hidden in one of the shots...see if you can spot it Poor thing, no doubt swallowed alive as that's how it's done.
Ahn Tri, lovely series of birds and flowers.
SKumar, nice to have you back, good stuff.
Robert (burningheart), that is an unusual pair of creatures, and beautiful.
So Peter, as I, like Kathy, am hoping to begin some practice at BIF this year, would wrens and cardinals not be a good place to start? I did try at some shore birds the last time I made it to the coast, but mostly what we have around here are robins, doves, house sparrows...uh oh! Maybe I'll have to go after the easy end of your list and bother some Canada geese. At least I might get a crack at them more than once a season, if I put in the effort when I have a few hours free. That's the thing about tree sharks/tree rats and robins - all I need is a few minutes of freedom and decent light. I need to plan some vacation days around bird photography!
Ah the elusive 150-600, I'd love to hear about maximum focus distances at various focal lengths. I'm hoping you are getting infinity with the latest EdMika 0.5mm at the 600 end. Please share. -Ed Mika
I am ashamed to be posting this sort of a spring snapshot obtained with tragically outdated gears: twenty year old lens (50 f/1.0) wide open, and a 7 year old camera with only 8 Mp (1DMkIIN).
I bring you the B.B.C. tonight (Bird-Bee-Chime)...sorry, my bad...
Anyway, it hit 85*F out here today, and that brought out the wind chimes, a bunch of hungry birds, and wood-boring bees. Living in a log home is not without its' share of problems with insects. But on the good side, every corner within the log overlap provides a safe-sheltered nesting area for a variety of song birds. Kind of a natural alarm-clock I suppose...
The bee was "really" fun to get framed & locked via manual focus. I could have had an easier time locking onto a MIG .
All done today with the 5D, with the FD 400mm f2.8 (with EdMika FD-EOS adapter) running the show.
Robert: Once again, kudos on those shots
Jefferson: Redbuds, et al, looking really good up here.
wnichols: Very nice work...please post more!
Jerry: Those Cedars are beautiful; I hope we get some of those visiting up this way.
Time to go watch my deer herd, and try to get them use to me sitting near them again. Five young ones now on their own...
PetKal wrote, "I am ashamed to be posting this sort of a spring snapshot obtained with tragically outdated gears: twenty year old lens (50 f/1.0) wide open, and a 7 year old camera with only 8 Mp (1DMkIIN)."
Send them down here, I'll hide the MkIIN at Road Atlanta, and I will send you my much more up to date EOS 50 f/1.4 so you can be seen in public with a modern 50 again
Poor thing, no doubt swallowed alive as that's how it's done.