The subject was a long way away, with the sun behind it, yet the A7R4 and 600GM got at least a good enough result to be interesting. We could barely see the bird in our binoculars!
Unfortunately, there is one less newborn bird in the world.
In a remote area of El Dorado County California is a mountain meadow favored by Calliope Hummingbirds. The feisty little jewels return here every spring once the snow has melted and bugs re-emerge. This spot has been so reliable that I've been able to take friends there, point to a scrawny willow and say "watch that twig" and within minutes the twig is decorated with the hummingbird.
Last year's late-spring snowstorm did not treat the scrawny willow kindly but within 10' is another perch, now the hummingbird's favored lookout spot.
Welcome to the club, Gregg! You started with a bang - those are impressive images!
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From this morning - mom peregrine falcon. This is the first time I captured her in-flight solo. She doesn't fly out that much after the eggs hatched. Cross-posted...
Back 15-16 years ago I got into doing some bird photography and used a Canon 1Ds Mark II and 1D Mark II at the time. A few years later I changed jobs and spent a number of years doing international travel, so the bird photography took a break and I sold the lenses for lack of use (I went all Leica M digital for a while). Fast forward to the past few years and I've been re-acquiring all of the gear I had swapped out, this time for Sony. The release last year of the 600GM meant I now had an option to get back to bird photography and in the last month as I went through some old photos the itch become too intense, and I hunted around and found one in stock and got it this past Saturday. Yesterday I got an hour or so near sunset to get a few shots near my house. I forgot how hard it can be to locate a tiny bird and get framed, focused and shoot, but eased back into it. Here's a few shots all taken with the A7R IV and the 600GM + 2.0TC.
Got some nice shots of the endangered Florida Scrub Jays last Saturday, during the worldwide birding "Big Day".
Adding a crop, since there have been some recent comments in other threads about supposedly not seeing any sharp images on the Sony forum.
