aboutthelight wrote:
Yes your bird is a Black Phoebe and holy crap what amazing images of these tiny birds. These are the most detailed images I have ever seen of a songbird in flight that was not prefocused or using a remote shutter. Congrats on absolutely fantastic photos.
Thanks all.
Was a fun and frustrating way to kill time when the normal egrets and herons were idle. The camera and lens combo did fine, the limitation was my ability to keep the bird in the frame in the first place. The bird would launch, grab a bug and fly back to different perch in seconds. There was no wind or anything to hold it up and let it hover. Settings for those curious: AF-C, wide, non tracking, bird eye detection on, OSS off, 30fps, pan like crazy and spray and pray. Crops range from ~6mp to ~24mp depending on the shot.
I went back today for a repeat and never had one get in range to even attempt a shot
A couple more shots that didn't make the first cut:
Hopefully I'm not spamming the board with too many images.
I had promised to take a long distance shot with 600GM and 200-600. Did that today and as far as I can tell they have identical focal length at long distances.
What I did notice is that the 600/4 is letting in more light. I set it at f/6.3 to match the 200-600 and the 600GM shots are brighter. It appears to be 1/3 of a stop.
Been out of circulation for a while. Took a drill bit hit to the throat/crazy accident. A touch of cellulites and a neck 3 times normal size...post some 'trephining' and a bunch of Levaquin finally getting out of the house a bit.
MedicineMan404 wrote:
Been out of circulation for a while. Took a drill bit hit to the throat/crazy accident. A touch of cellulites and a neck 3 times normal size...post some 'trephining' and a bunch of Levaquin finally getting out of the house a bit.
MedicineMan404 wrote:
Been out of circulation for a while. Took a drill bit hit to the throat/crazy accident. A touch of cellulites and a neck 3 times normal size...post some 'trephining' and a bunch of Levaquin finally getting out of the house a bit.
