Continuing the hummer trend. Ruby-throated hummingbirds from my yard yesterday morning. Many have reported they have seen fewer hummers this years, which is true with me too.
Continuing with the current theme, this is a Black Phoebe on the shore of a pond in a local riparian preserve. Small birds are my favorites to photograph and usually the most challenging since they move so fast. This guy sat still for a few seconds letting me use a relatively slow shutter.
Thank you very much Birdie, much appreciated.
It seems some of the hummers have already moved on further South.
The remaining ones consume a lot less sugar water.
It will be a while before I post new pictures
I have sold all my sony gear and will only use my olympus gear in the future, but future plans remain to be seen and thought about
Ronny Olsson wrote:
It will be a while before I post new pictures
I have sold all my sony gear and will only use my olympus gear in the future, but future plans remain to be seen and thought about
but I will keep an eye on you sony friends
Ronny
I wonder why you did that, Ronny? What advantage or advantages did you see in switching to a significantly smaller sensor size, especially since you do quite a bit of landscape photography? No offense and of course, we respect you decision; I am just curious...
birdied wrote:
Douglas, Bill and Joshua, gentlmen, what amazing shots you have all just posted !!
Birdie
Thank you very much Birdie! I enjoy your hummers shots and insect shots very much. I am wondering if you are seeing far few hummers this year too?
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Ronny Olsson wrote:
Really cool !
It will be a while before I post new pictures
I have sold all my sony gear and will only use my olympus gear in the future, but future plans remain to be seen and thought about
but I will keep an eye on you sony friends
Ronny
Oh, no! Ronny! you can always post your old pictures taken with your Sony gear. They are truly exceptional. I hope Helena is not following suit. Haven't seen her posting for a while.
AGeoJO wrote:
I wonder why you did that, Ronny? What advantage or advantages did you see in switching to a significantly smaller sensor size, especially since you do quite a bit of landscape photography? No offense and of course, we respect you decision; I am just curious...
The fact is that I haven't photographed landscapes much since the last trip to Iceland in 2019 and the Loxia 21, 16-35 and 24-105 have mostly just been in the camera bag since completely unused
Sure, I've photographed some birds, but not that much, but mostly only macro or semi-macro images in recent years
A9 and A7R III are getting old..
My A9 was from 2017-2018, I think, so no one knows how long it worked
In terms of AF, the A9 still holds up relatively well and my A7R III was from 2019, I think, and in terms of image quality, there are still not many cameras that beat it.. but to be honest, the AF is not that good on it..
to be honest, I miss eye focus for birds which is not found on these either..but of course I could just buy a new body and keep the lens though
For semi-macro pictures, 100-400 Gm was really good and 200-600 worked well for that too .. but in recent years I have taken my Olympus also for this as the Sony stuff had to stay home
Of course I might regret it in terms of bokeh and MP
My decision has been based on what I have photographed in the last 4 years
and so to be honest, most of it has been macro
and for this, I think that the Olympus works better
I think it was a shame that the stuff just lay unused and at best I only photographed with them a few times a year and as I said especially the camera body started to old so you don't know how long it worked before they broke .. the lenses there are no major problems with them, I don't think they will break..
Let's see if I miss Fx too much, I'll buy a newer camera body and maybe a fixed long lens and something for macro again
for the bird photography, I have a fixed 300 f4 and 100-400 for Olympus which works quite well for that too
. Ruby-throated hummingbirds from my yard yesterday morning. Many have reported they have seen fewer hummers this years, which is true with me too.
