Yesterday there were not a lot of birds at the Marine Nature Study Area in Oceanside, NY. This is not unusual this time of year as migration is if full swing and much of what we see depends on who is stopping in to feast. I had moved from a spot with a nice view of one of the ponds that did have activity yet where I'd been standing with my friends the gnats were having a feast on us as it was sheltered from the wind. As I walked along I saw a GBH fly toward me and I quickly planted my tripod and took a few safety images before starting to tweak my exposure and this is when it landed rather close to me. I expected it to start fishing yet instead it blasted off, did a loop and went right in front of me before flying off. Here are 3 images from that pass.
Sorry about the size, I'm never sure which export settings to use with Flickr. One site I post to with these exact settings is smaller than what gets displayed on here. The bird pics are with the Fuji 100-400, a lens that's a pain in the ass to find a credible review of. Had it once briefly but I had to take it back because it got sold to me with a loose lens element in it and it took 2 months for it to get restocked again. Luckily I reordered it at the last day of rebate pricing and I'm glad I got it. I heard it wasn't a sharp lens, but it's more than sharp enough to me. kwoodard wrote:
Very nice, yet very large set of images.
Not quite happy about the processing on the first. It looked a lot better on the iPad than after upload. Something in the processing chain crushed some of the crispness and I need to figure out what.
JadedWriter wrote:
Sorry about the size, I'm never sure which export settings to use with Flickr. One site I post to with these exact settings is smaller than what gets displayed on here. The bird pics are with the Fuji 100-400, a lens that's a pain in the ass to find a credible review of. Had it once briefly but I had to take it back because it got sold to me with a loose lens element in it and it took 2 months for it to get restocked again. Luckily I reordered it at the last day of rebate pricing and I'm glad I got it. I heard it wasn't a sharp lens, but it's more than sharp enough to me.
Two weeks ago I found a Red Salamander, this time out it was a Spotted Slimy Salamander.
Did you know in some parts of the world they eat salamanders
Anyway, this black one was much harder to image compared to the red one.
JadedWriter wrote:
Sorry about the size, I'm never sure which export settings to use with Flickr. One site I post to with these exact settings is smaller than what gets displayed on here. The bird pics are with the Fuji 100-400, a lens that's a pain in the ass to find a credible review of. Had it once briefly but I had to take it back because it got sold to me with a loose lens element in it and it took 2 months for it to get restocked again. Luckily I reordered it at the last day of rebate pricing and I'm glad I got it. I heard it wasn't a sharp lens, but it's more than sharp enough to me.
For posting here I use the Flickr-generated BBCode, selecting the Large option that's 1024 pixels on the long side. It's only available on the desktop site, not the mobile app (bad flickr...)
I find that a good balance between enough size and too much size.
I've found that the large pictures on this site renders badly on mobile devices, even large ones like my 12.9" iPad Pro, on a PC or Mac it's really a non-issue.
I like the way X-large is sized on the other forum I post to and Large would work better on here, but I'm too lazy to pick the same set of pictures and generate two different sets of links. mawz wrote:
For posting here I use the Flickr-generated BBCode, selecting the Large option that's 1024 pixels on the long side. It's only available on the desktop site, not the mobile app (bad flickr...)
I find that a good balance between enough size and too much size.
I've found that the large pictures on this site renders badly on mobile devices, even large ones like my 12.9" iPad Pro, on a PC or Mac it's really a non-issue.
Some images from yesterday and today. Just getting out after being cooped up inside the house for over a week due to the hazardous air from the wildfires.
