buffalowolff wrote:
Trash lighting today as we went out looking for a rare to the area White-eyed Vireo (didn't find it). We did find hundreds of swallows swarming around what must have been a huge insect hatching. So impressed with the AF keeping up with these guys speeding around.
arbitrage wrote:
182 frames and some poor tracking on my part...but the A1 never lets you down
Actually for the latter part of this sequence my eye wasn't even on the EVF properly, I was basically swinging the lens around with my eye half on the edge of the EVF and looking out the side of my eye partially into the EVF....
My environment/another view of the front yard via the FE20/1.8
and one of our 'warmer' weather residents, which begs a question.
I thought Sea Hawks liked warm weather? warm water?
I know they migrate to s.America for winter.
I shot the lake surface with the laser thermomenter...44F/6.6c.
I bet he doesn't like diving into that water!
Well when it warms up a bit more/mid-May, we'll take the canoe up-lake and see if we can
find where he fishes.
As a retiree my morning routine is wake up the coffee machine, dress for the weather, feed
the song birds then to the dock to feed the Canadians.
For the past four mornings I've seen this Pandion fly up-lake, sometimes flying back with a fish
(which tells me the nest is down-lake but so far I cannot find the nest/will keep looking).
So yesterday I waited after seeing him go by (would have been a butt shot).....20 min's and
he returns to circle over my bay (bay in a loose sense, my lake is only a mile and a half long).
Thanks to another Canadian I half-pressed the shutter for the dancing square on him in Zone,
then pushed the AF-On for the amazing tracking. 60+ images.
I'll admit it was still a big crop but in that regard I don't miss my a9 at all haha!
Another thing is using affordable Prograde UHS-ii's 256gb I'm having no buffer issues.
I do miss the battery life of the a9 though
MedicineMan404 wrote:
Well I've shown you guys 50 yards out the backdoor, and the front yard. Here's one 20 feet off the screened porch.
Before retiring and moving 3000 feet higher in elevation I'd seen maybe one Junco a year. Here I see four or five daily.
About an hour before sunset and the light was perfect... until the Eagles started to fly by and a nice dark cloud just stole all the light away so these are way to high an ISO. As soon as they flew off the sun came right back out.. always my luck.
I did what I could with Topaz and PS to save them with ISO12800. I post it just to add a high ISO shot (in bad lighting) to the thread, not because it's a showcase shot.
Something a little different for me, at least as far as posting here on FM goes. I do quite a bit of portrait work, but am always learning, posing, lighting, etc. The A1 just makes life easier. Previously, I'd use the a7r4, but it too often missed focus on the eyes and I'd have to shoot 3 or 4 images of the same pose to ensure I got one in focus. In a dozen sessions, I can count the number of missed focus shots on one hand. It's comforting to know that it just doesn't miss.
I love sports, but to pay for this gear, portrait sessions keep the accountant happy.
palmor wrote:
About an hour before sunset and the light was perfect... until the Eagles started to fly by and a nice dark cloud just stole all the light away so these are way to high an ISO. As soon as they flew off the sun came right back out.. always my luck.
I'm pretty sure birds don't like the full sun. My feeders have no shadowed areas nearby and the birds tend to stay longer and seem more relaxed when the sun is covered by clouds.
