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Great bird shots 👍
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Jerm324 posted:I do, let me know which one specifically and I will post it. You're so kind to share! The first one has me enthralled.
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Apr 11, 2023 01:55
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I just spent 2 mornings at my local Tree Swallow research station and the males have arrived and are duking it out for nest boxes. Not as dynamic as my shots last year (the barbed wire on the nest box didn't help much) Bonus Killdeer: 
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Apr 11, 2023 02:34
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Apr 11, 2023 02:59
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I love these birds.
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Apr 11, 2023 03:17
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:
I assume you were at your widest aperture? What I tend to do with perched birds in low light like this is take multiple shots at progressively lower shutter speeds start at 1/1000 say then drop to 1/800 etc etc and then look at them later so see which combo of settings was the best. Also those waxwings are absolutely lovely.  Female Kestrel by Aves Lux, on Flickr jarlywarly fucked around with this message at 09:08 on Apr 11, 2023 |
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Apr 11, 2023 09:05
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jarlywarly posted:I assume you were at your widest aperture? What I tend to do with perched birds in low light like this is take multiple shots at progressively lower shutter speeds start at 1/1000 say then drop to 1/800 etc etc and then look at them later so see which combo of settings was the best. There's a stupidly lazy way of doing this with Bracketing. It takes even the smallest amount of thought out of it. I've done it a few time, it's not too too bad.
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Apr 11, 2023 13:47
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Slotducks posted:There's a stupidly lazy way of doing this with Bracketing. It takes even the smallest amount of thought out of it. I've done it a few time, it's not too too bad. Can you set bracketing to keep the same exposure with auto ISO but lower shutter speed? I thought it just under - right - over Unless there some other bracketting options?
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Apr 11, 2023 13:56
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jarlywarly posted:Can you set bracketing to keep the same exposure with auto ISO but lower shutter speed? Yeah I typically shoot manual with Auto ISO on so AE bracketing just alters the shutter speed for me. Example that I just did in here Manual Mode - Auto ISO ON (max 8000) I set bracketing to 3 frames EV 1.0 apart: Shot 1 - 1/100 ISO 360 Shot 2 - 1/200 ISO 360 Shot 3 - 1/50 ISO 360
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Apr 11, 2023 14:24
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Slotducks posted:Yeah I typically shoot manual with Auto ISO on so AE bracketing just alters the shutter speed for me. But at the same aperture those are different exposures You would want 1/100 ISO 400 1/200 ISO 800 1/400 ISO 1600 The idea being that you have options where you can see later whether you got lucky at the lower shutter speed with a better ISO, basically hedging your bets.
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Apr 11, 2023 14:32
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Ah I see where I got confused - I was interpreting it like you want to get progressively slower shutter speeds so the exposure gets brighter and hedge your bets that way. As the slower the shutter speed, the higher the chance of it becoming blurry. Instead of the other way around of getting the same exposure with different settings.
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Apr 11, 2023 15:49
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Slotducks posted:Ah I see where I got confused - I was interpreting it like you want to get progressively slower shutter speeds so the exposure gets brighter and hedge your bets that way. As the slower the shutter speed, the higher the chance of it becoming blurry. Instead of the other way around of getting the same exposure with different settings. Yeah the idea is that sometimes you can get away with lower shutter speeds on perched birds so you want to try it without losing the "sure bet" that has a worse ISO.
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Apr 11, 2023 15:50
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I love this. This is a Eurasian Kestrel, yes?jarlywarly posted:
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Apr 11, 2023 16:55
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Full-Res Cedar Waxwing photos. Feel free to download for personal use, please do not share elsewhere, thanks! https://jezyoung.com/images/1z3e0201f.jpg https://jezyoung.com/images/1z3d0114.jpg
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Apr 11, 2023 17:11
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Jerm324 posted:I love this. This is a Eurasian Kestrel, yes? Thanks, yeah we only have the one kestrel the OG Eurasian Old World European Kestrel, so we just call them kestrels
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Apr 11, 2023 17:36
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Jerm324 posted:Full-Res Cedar Waxwing photos. Feel free to download for personal use, please do not share elsewhere, thanks! bless and thanks again for sharing, these are really really great and i just love them so much!
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Apr 11, 2023 20:21
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I forgot to post these - the ear-full of Bohemian Waxwings in the Guelph Area spent lunch at some low hanging crab apple trees in a parking lot at the University   Not the greatest lighting conditions though 
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Apr 13, 2023 13:21
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Bohemian waxwings rule.
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Apr 14, 2023 08:11
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I test drove a couple of cameras this weekend, but didn't get a real good tele to go with them so had to settle with camping the feeder for a bit   
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Apr 17, 2023 00:58
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i love how female red-bellied woodpeckers look like they're bald.
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Apr 19, 2023 13:59
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Just a fluffy little sparrow hiding in a tree.   (You'll have to forgive the ISO noise as it was late in the day and I was poking my lens into a tree)
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Apr 21, 2023 11:37
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 Briones lark sparrow-7880 on Flickr Gyuto borb song sparrow-7358 on Flickr Gyuto Brown Creeper-7179 on Flickr Female Phainopepla-7971 on Flickr Gyuto Robin Portrait-7115 on Flickr
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Apr 23, 2023 22:48
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Apr 24, 2023 12:38
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For every 200 shots of Tree Swallows I took in flight, there's one or two that actually come out looking alright
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Apr 25, 2023 15:14
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Apr 26, 2023 14:59
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Some birds in my front yard this morning. 
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Apr 26, 2023 19:21
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Apr 27, 2023 09:12
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That's wonderful.
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Apr 27, 2023 12:22
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I recently found out I live near a wildlife preserve with a pretty good bird population. Yesterday I saw a bald eagle, red wing blackbirds, wood ducks, and yellow dumped warblers. I have a Fuji X-T3 with the cheap XC 50-230 zoom. While it worked, I wish I had a bit more range, and always felt like I was fighting the camera/lens with autofocus. Should I upgrade to something like the 70-300 for $800, or 100-400 for $950, or would my money be better spent jumping to a different system?  
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Apr 28, 2023 19:24
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Birds from my home office window. IMG_3299-Edit.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr  IMG_2633-Edit-Edit.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr  IMG_2428-Edit-Edit.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr
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Apr 28, 2023 23:05
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Getting intimate with a summer visitor. Wheatear Male by Aves Lux, on Flickr
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Apr 29, 2023 13:13
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frogbs posted:I recently found out I live near a wildlife preserve with a pretty good bird population. Yesterday I saw a bald eagle, red wing blackbirds, wood ducks, and yellow dumped warblers. I have a Fuji X-T3 with the cheap XC 50-230 zoom. While it worked, I wish I had a bit more range, and always felt like I was fighting the camera/lens with autofocus. Should I upgrade to something like the 70-300 for $800, or 100-400 for $950, or would my money be better spent jumping to a different system? I do most of my birding with a 210mm zoom. I'd like to upgrade but you can get really far with a small zoom. "Zoom with your feet" is a very cost effective solution: sneak up on them birds. If you've got the money to burn, go for a longer zoom, but learning to tread quietly and wait for good opportunities will result in better pictures with any lens. As for fighting autofocus, my zoom lens is the one made for my camera and I fight it constantly. It loves to find a single twig and lock onto that rather than the bird I'm interested in. Read about how your camera's autofocus works: is it a problem due to a mismatch of body/lens or is your camera just bad/confusing it? Make sure you understand the various focus modes (my Sony has several). It could just take practice and research. Also, take my advice with a big grain of salt, I manually focus all my pictures because I am insane.
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Apr 29, 2023 13:13
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Manual focus'er here as well
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Apr 29, 2023 15:39
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 Eurasian Edit: Wrong, the tit was me. RillAkBea fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Apr 30, 2023 |
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Apr 30, 2023 11:29
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RillAkBea posted:
That looks like a shrike to me, the bill is very shrike like, where was this taken? jarlywarly fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Apr 30, 2023 |
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Apr 30, 2023 16:29
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jarlywarly posted:That looks like a shrike to me, the bill is very shrike like, where was this taken? Ooh, interesting, I got the name from a local bird guide based on the markings so I could very well be wrong. (Blinded by the promise of tit jokes) This is southern Japan. I was shooting some river birds when I spied this weirdo watching me. Edit: Same bird, different shot. Almost definitely a shrike, now that you mention it, which do live around here apparently wasn't in the guide I was looking at for some reason. Thanks! 
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Apr 30, 2023 16:47
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RillAkBea posted:Ooh, interesting, I got the name from a local bird guide based on the markings so I could very well be wrong. (Blinded by the promise of tit jokes) Now I am looking up Japanese Shrikes, looks like Bull-headed Shrike. Shrikes are cool birds.
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Apr 30, 2023 22:26
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Careful, they work on Beetlejuice rules. Three shrikes, you're out.
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Apr 30, 2023 23:27
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Yay! Ospreys are back.  
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