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A couple cardinals from today's backyard photography

May 23, 2021 at 12:25 PM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Cardinals in flight

Beautiful shots of one of my favourite birds.

Gordon

May 23, 2021 at 01:29 PM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Cardinals in flight

gcooke0522 wrote:
Beautiful shots of one of my favourite birds.

Gordon

Thank you Gordon

May 23, 2021 at 01:38 PM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Cardinals in flight

nice, Bob. you may want to consider reducing the power of the flash a tad.

May 23, 2021 at 05:01 PM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Cardinals in flight

kdacharya wrote:
nice, Bob. you may want to consider reducing the power of the flash a tad.

Thanks kdacharya
This was taken with a Lidar trap on a D500 set to ISO Lo1 (about ISO of 50) using 5 flashes set to 1/64 power. Shutter speed was 1/250 sec. To provide some space between the flash and the bird I have a better beamer on each flash.

The raw image is quite dark. I feel I need to add a high speed shutter which will provide a lot more flexibility for lighting the bird and keeping the background black. I will than add two flashes to light the tree behind the trap.

This is my venture into high speed photography and I hve a lot to learn. However I am capturing images that would be very difficult to get using regular flash methods - I think.

May 23, 2021 at 05:45 PM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Cardinals in flight

Love the sense of motion and the blur.

Birdie

May 23, 2021 at 09:58 PM

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birdied wrote:
Love the sense of motion and the blur.

Birdie

Thank you Birdie

May 24, 2021 at 04:29 AM

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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Cardinals in flight

The second is my pick Bob. Looks like you have made great strides with this method

Morris

May 24, 2021 at 06:59 AM

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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · Cardinals in flight

Normally, you need more reach in regular bird photography. Because of the trap, It seems that you need less here. Still, I like the contrast between wing blur and sharp head of the cardinal in #2. Good job, Bob!

Joshua

May 24, 2021 at 07:09 AM

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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · Cardinals in flight

morris wrote:
The second is my pick Bob. Looks like you have made great strides with this method

Morris
Thanks Morris - II think two brands of flash are causing double exposure. Will try just using one brand on net outing to light the bird and the other brand to light the background.
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AGeoJO wrote:
Normally, you need more reach in regular bird photography. Because of the trap, It seems that you need less here. Still, I like the contrast between wing blur and sharp head of the cardinal in #2. Good job, Bob!

Joshua

Thank you Joshua

May 24, 2021 at 08:51 AM

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RockvilleBob wrote:
Thanks Morris - II think two brands of flash are causing double exposure. Will try just using one brand on net outing to light the bird and the other brand to light the background.
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Thank you Joshua

Could be a trigger timing issue related to pre flash.

May 24, 2021 at 10:15 AM

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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · Cardinals in flight

morris wrote:
Could be a trigger timing issue related to pre flash.

Excellent and on target comment Morris. One of the flashes had AF on. Dealing with cryptic camera menues is one headache. Dealing with obtuse flash menues screws with your mind in three dimensions.

May 24, 2021 at 10:42 AM

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p.1 #13 · p.1 #13 · Cardinals in flight

Those colors are amazing! Great captures!

May 28, 2021 at 04:32 PM

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p.1 #14 · p.1 #14 · Cardinals in flight

Mareshalu wrote:
Those colors are amazing! Great captures!

Thank you Mareshalu

May 28, 2021 at 05:50 PM


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