Photo cross posted in the Sony FE Image Thread and taken at 12:17 PM.
Looking at a Great Egret in breeding plumage with I believe its tongue visible inside of its beak.
Cropped, tripod mounted 200-600mm G set to 344mm and A7rIII; silent shutter.
ISO 100, f6.3, 1/800 second.
Exposure Corrected +0.20 Stops.
January 6, 2020
At Gatorland, Orlando or Kissimmee, FL.
Photo cross posted in the Sony FE Image Thread and taken at 10:21 AM.
Looking at a Great Egret in breeding plumage standing on a log with an Alligator to the right and behind. Wading birds have to be careful, if they fall in and are seen by alligators, they will be eaten.
Cropped from the left, tripod mounted 100-400mm GM set to 300mm and A7rIII, silent shutter.
ISO 100, f5.6 1/320 second.
Exposure corrected +1.18 Stops.
May 11, 2019
At Gatorland, Orlando or Kissimmee, FL.
Photo cross posted in the Sony FE Image Thread and taken at 11:43 AM.
Looking at a Great Blue Heron in Breeding Plumage.
Cropped, tripod mounted 200-600mm G set to 600mm and A7rIII; silent shutter.
ISO 400, f6.3, 1/2000 second.
Exposure Corrected -0.20 Stops.
December 6, 2020
Along Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive, Apopka, FL.
Photo cross posted in the Sony FE Image Thread and taken at 1:34 PM.
Looking at a Wood Stork in Breeding Plumage and reflection; unfortunately I can not recover detail of the bird's back.
Cropped, tripod mounted 200-600mm G set to 266mm and A7rIII; silent shutter.
ISO 100, f5.6, 1/160 second.
Exposure corrected -1.08 Stops.
January 6, 2020
At Gatorland, Orlando or Kissimmee, FL.
Tony5787 wrote:
These are some of the sharpest swallow shots I’ve seen, fantastic work. Were you using zone AF?
Hi, sorry I just saw this. No I wasn't. There has been some interest so I made a video.
Mainly I used wide area - it is super hard to keep them in the frame so zone would be too small and you wouldn't need it anyway. By the time they fly into the focus zone they are quite large in the frame and everything else is a blur.
Tracking: Expandable Flexible Spot also worked well but tricky to pick up the bird initially as you have to pre-focus and pick them up as they fly through the focus plane - its not so easy to place the box on the bird and hit the back button focus at the right time and if you miss you have to start all over. Wide works 90+% of the time - the only issue is if there is more than one bird then you never know which it will pick.
Not sure how well I explain in the video but the main trick is to make sure the background is a good 20 or 30 meters away so that once you acquire focus on the bird at close distance (< 10 meters) it is blurred and no longer presents anything confusing to the af system.
Tracking swallows as they fly around normally is a waste of time, you can never fill the frame - well maybe one in a million. I wanted some more reliable way.
My favorite Grey-header fish eagle with a great catch in the morning. My Rx10m4 not really good especially in the morning ~7+am with ISO1600. I'm actually looking forward the 200-600 either pair with A9 or A1.
Photo cross posted in the Sony FE Image Thread and taken at 7:39 AM.
Looking at a Tricolored Heron in Breeding Plumage.
Fairly Heavily Cropped; tripod mounted 100-400mm GM set to 400mm and A7rIII; silent shutter.
ISO 100, f5.6, 1/60 second.
May 11, 2019
At Gatorland, Orlando or Kissimmee, FL.
Photo cross posted in the Sony FE Image Thread and taken at 9:14 AM.
Looking at a Snowy Egret in Breeding Plumage raising one of its "Yellow Slippers".
Cropped, tripod mounted 200-600mm G set to 594mm and A7rIII; silent shutter.
ISO 200, f6.3, 1/500 second.
Exposure Corrected +0.59 Stops.
December 6, 2020
Along Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive, Apopka, FL.
Photo cross posted in the Sony FE Image Thread and taken at 11:39 AM.
Looking at a side and backlit Great Egret in breeding plumage.
Cropped mainly from the top and a bit from the left, tripod mounted 200-600mm G set to 600mm and A7rIII; silent shutter.
ISO 100, f6.3, 1/250 second.
Exposure Corrected +0.20 Stops.
January 6, 2020
At Gatorland, Orlando or Kissimmee, FL.
Photo cross posted in the Sony FE Image Thread and taken at 10:12 AM.
Looking at a parent Great Egret and 3 Nestlings in the nest and 2 other Great Egrets from the nest behind (at least one of the 2 is a Nestling).
Cropped; tripod mounted 100-400mm f4-f5.6 GM lens set to 336mm and A7rIII; silent shutter.
ISO 100, f5.6, 1/1000 second.
Exposure corrected -0.39 Stops.
May 11, 2019
At Gatorland, Orlando or Kissimmee, FL.
Photo cross posted in the Sony FE Image Thread and taken at 12:42 PM.
Looking at a Snowy Egret in breeding plumage.
Cropped, tripod mounted 200-600mm G set to 200mm and Sony A7rIII camera; silent shutter.
ISO 100, f6.3, 1/600 second.
Exposure Corrected +0.39 Stops.
January 6, 2020
At Gatorland, Orlando or Kissimmee, FL.
