Bird Photography

[hidden wyvern]

with that lens you got the 200-600, im sure it can do this too with the right background, even had my phone kinda do it although not as detailed of course

This was the phone shot lol, I was about 4 ft away, pretty aggressive to everyone else but they tolerated me

[magic crown]

Look what just arrived in my home for my photo exhibit (2 more will arrive soon)

[coral solar]

Local sandhill crane, at a wetlands in central Florida.
300mm f5.6 1/500 iso 160

[coral solar]

That's awesome, I like the kingfisher

[stray plover]

I am positive thats a borb

[coral solar]

10/10 observation. It is in fact a Lanky Boi Borb

[stray plover]

I was out photographing smol birbs today, came across a fat lookin one tho, buddies been hoggin the meals all winter

[stray plover]

Bird people, how clean is ur glass, is it like 10/10?

[scarlet tulip]

I use a blower on the front element like once a week

Telephotos don’t really show dust in images unless it’s on the rear element, so I blow that off a bit more frequently

[stray plover]

What about smudges, or even smudges you can only see under a direct light (not a lamp)? Do u just leave that

[scarlet tulip]

if it becomes annoying i'll clean it, there's no hard and fast rule

[stray plover]

I have like what looks like lines from wiping (oil?) but its only visible under my iphone direct flash sooo.. whatever..?

I dont think it would actually do anything

[spring vault]

I always use my lens hood so it's pretty spotless

[remote remnant]

microfiber every once in a while

[hidden wyvern]

goose 2

this is what i mean when the f/4 blows out the background, idk ive always loved flat bokeh as well as the spheres

can make out the background more with the zoom, these two are prob my keepers of that day (teeth goose seems to scare some people)

[dark ermine]

some people? are you telling me there are people who aren't freaked out by this?! 😂

[hidden wyvern]

they did this to everyone else walking by, to me i just sat right next tto them and maybe they nibbled my coat to see what i was lol

no bites

guess theyre friendly enough if on the same level as them, they didnt like the people standing up near them, or people with dogs

[magic crown]

On Monday I'm going to a falconry event, it will allow me to test the Sony 200-600mm on subjects in flight

[magic crown]

I'm writing a short documentary about the birds of my region called "Les Ailes du Sud" (Wings of the South) because my region is in the south of France and contains the largest concentration of bird species in France. The goal is to show how nature is closer than we think and that sometimes it's not necessary to go to another country to see rare bird species and that they can even live very close to home.

[uneven bramble]

oooh pretty

[uneven bramble]

Oh damn nice job

my mom just put out some plants that they seem to like so ill try to setup a chair to maybe get them

[stray plover]

Not my best, crop was horrendous, lil bro was to far for 400mm

[coral solar]

Reminds me of one I have somewhere of a hummingbird, i just happened to see something out of the corner of my eye and managed to locate him with a 300 (on an aps-c sensor) but he was so far away i had to crop out about 80%

Found it

[stray plover]

Jesus how low is that resolution

[coral solar]

This is atrocious, I blame lightroom mobile's shitty export feature

[stray plover]

Even LR mobile didnt do me this dirty tbh

This is another level

[coral solar]

Nope, I stand corrected. Apparently the reason I left it to vanish into the ether was that it is only a 1.5mp image after the crop 1209 square

But LR's export for some reason gave me 516x516 (or at least that's what the details said in my gallery app)

Allow me to make up for it with these birds that have more than two pixels each

[spare yarrow]

so I was able to replace the legs from another shot, can anyone tell or thinks this looks fake?

ill show a close-up too

original vs the legs I used

[scarlet tulip]

You’d have to tell me there was a replacement job done, that’s good work

[spare yarrow]

thanks!

[scarlet tulip]

largest gull species in the world, the great black-backed

[spring vault]

needs a banana for scale

[drifting silo]

Baby

[green meadow]

well yeah, but it is kind of flying towards me. 😄

[coral solar]

Threw this guy in general photo share, but thought he was majestic enough to deserve some love here too

[remote remnant]

borb

[green meadow]

Little guy looks kind of excited what is about to happen next. 😅

But then it slipped and fell off from the females back. 😫 🤣

Grebe has nothing to worry about...sometimes it happens even to best of us. 😄

[scarlet tulip]

better luck next time, guy

[wide flint]

Happens to the best of us, we all need to learn through experience

[magic crown]

They are rescued species and they can't be realase in nature

[finite flower]

cute falconet

[scarlet tulip]

Nice shot

[magic crown]

Yeah he's cute but it's a speed beast

+400km/h in bullet flight

[finite flower]

i hab fast bird also

peregrine

with a parrot in claws

[magic crown]

The reason why they have it they saved him of an very injured wing he can fly but very hardly

He can do normal flight but not bullet flight

[finite flower]

parakeet catch

legendary

[magic crown]

Poor parrot
YUMMY TASTE

Barn owl are so beautiful
But the sound they make is insane

Those sisters was abandoned by his mother and one of them was injured in the fall

It's not really wildlife birds but the reason of it is fair

[magic crown]

orignal vs final
i love those king on edits with owls

[hidden wyvern]

birb

[wise trench]

Never taken a photo of a seagull before 😂 best part of vacations is going to places you don’t normally have access to

[hoary sigil]

That eye is incredible

[magic crown]

thanks it was hard to recover the pixels and data in the eyes

[finite flower]

smoof duck

its smooth everywhere

[scarlet tulip]

Eiders are fun like that, they’re very streamlined for diving

[green meadow]

Northern wheatears are back from winter trip to Africa.

[spring vault]

that bird is rly cute

[green meadow]

Yes it is. It is called kivitasku here and literal translation is something like stones in the pocket. Probably because it sounds like hitting two stones together.

Also it nests in rocky places where is some gaps between rocks and big stones.

[wide flint]

Nice to see the adaptation to the habitat. Here in the Netherlands they mainly nest in the dunes in abandoned rabbit holes. Sadly bc rabbits are doing bad in the Netherlands the Northern wheatear is also doing bad here

[green meadow]

I think they prefer wide open areas and not forests here as well. That is really interesting to hear that they nest in old rabbit holes there. But sad to hear that they are in trouble both rabbits and wheatears.

[coral solar]

Florida Scrub Jay decided to check my hat out while I was at the sanctuary a little north of my house.
I was photographing him in the tree and he swooped down to see if the button on the top of my hat was a delicious as it looked, he seemed to decide it was not actually edible.

[magic crown]

"hmm that's a good spot here" ahh bird

[coral solar]

He stayed on my head for a little while, eventually I started taking cautious steps just to see what he would do and after I moved about 15 feet, I must have strayed too far from where he wanted to be so he left

[magic crown]

brave bird

[scarlet tulip]

Corvids can be super personable, neat

[coral solar]

And they're so clever... definitely not a group of birds I would want to offend

[scarlet tulip]

They will start crapping on your porch and leaving little gifts

[uneven bramble]

The lost little baby goose got adopted

[magic crown]

Okay best spot ever

[gilded yarrow]

Meh, these spots are great for birdwatching but 99% of the time they suck for photography

[magic crown]

not at all

i've made good shot

[gilded yarrow]

The Birds are too far away and youre too far above them most of the time

[magic crown]

it can be good

[magic crown]

on this one ducks, swans, gulls and even buzzards come really close

even bee eaters

ofc it's far and it can be better on other places but this one is really good and this spot is just one to a huge place of forest full of sparrows

[gilded yarrow]

From that pic I think we got a different perception of what really close actually is lol

[magic crown]

yeah it's far but it's good enough to make good photos

[gilded yarrow]

I enjoy those spots too tho, even if its just for seeing new lifers

[magic crown]

yeah

but this lookout is nothing when you see what it have around

there made some spot adapted for hiding net and custom lookout

[magic crown]

Friday i go on a natural reserve at 6am to have a good light

[carmine fox]

not as close as I wanted
but GHOs are more skittish than NHOs apparently

[spring vault]

nice

[green meadow]

so cute 🤩

[scarlet tulip]

they're my favorite spring visitors, such puffballs in the cold

[magic crown]

it's a low quality preview btw

[magic crown]

wake up at 4am hits hard

[uneven bramble]

i like that cold looking birb

[inner abyss]

first real photo of a kingfisher, just a wee bit out of focal length

found this beauty too but got screwed over by a branch and it flew off before i got a decent angle

[broken mantle]

Today’s kingfisher not the branch lol

[broken mantle]

I got 1 video

And no good flight shots (it always flew away from us)

[carmine fox]

now that its bright out I can push my lens a bit, by god this is sharp

[magic crown]

the gull one was pretty fun to edit

[hidden wyvern]

junco

wonder who that is, osprey is around still

[inner abyss]

Never even heard of one of these before but apparently this is a royal spoonbill

[magic crown]

Yeah they are pretty common here but they have a quite funny beak

[green meadow]

I took a roadkill squirrel to my birding spot just to see what would happen. I thought a crow or a magpie would come and take it away to eat. But it's still there, and now small birds are harvesting its fur to use as nesting material.

[inner abyss]

That’s wild

[green meadow]

My wife didn’t exactly appreciate it when I showed her what I had picked up from the roadside. 😅

[finite flower]

another shot from that day

[magic crown]

Today i go to a crocodile reserve with some tropical birds like scarlet ibis

[magic crown]

this eye is insane

[magic crown]

for the parrot the background was already black it's the normal exposition

[uneven bramble]

any crocs?

they are related to things that became birds

[magic crown]

ofc there is

[finite flower]

yappale watch

[echo rain]

thoughts on this shot ?

this was around a Canadian goose nest while kayaking except the goslings are hidden from the shot

[spare yarrow]

i feel the water is so minimal it might as well be cropped out

maybe even wide like this

its got good symmetry

[echo rain]

so do you think like a post edit of the shot here could be just cropping out the water entirely ?

[spare yarrow]

how little/much you edit is up to you.
-# but I would say the water doesnt add too much considering where its cut off and Im distracted by the blown-out highlights in the bottom-middle

[magic crown]

Actually it's a galaxy watch 4 ☝️

[finite flower]

o

[finite flower]

what does thy think of my eagle catch shot

[magic crown]

Good shot but feel sad for me for the right wing you don't have it all but it's not that bad

[finite flower]

yeah its unfortunate

[magic crown]

So what about mine ?

[finite flower]

i like all buy the yellowed eye idk what cuz the bg is not that clean

still nice though

[magic crown]

It's the normal color on this one and wtf nature why it's so big

And for the background i wanted to make the contrast between the large color of this bird

[green meadow]

Same resolution but 1st is exported with quality 60% and 2nd 100%. Specially on bc and fc lots of jpeg artifacts on lower quality. But there is big difference in file size as well top quality is almost 5x larger. 😵

[magic crown]

5x larger is wild

[green meadow]

difference is not that visible on preview. Have to open on browser.

[green meadow]

I'm trying to change my mind set when exporting photos to use quality needed not always best there is. But I really don't know where to draw the line.

[magic crown]

80% or 90% should be fine

[green meadow]

yep, even 80% file size is less than half of 100%. And it seems to be almost as good as 100%.

[magic crown]

for me i export on 100% (i have a lot of storage) and for social media i export in 85%

[green meadow]

What about resolution? Do you always use full res pictures?

[magic crown]

most of it yes

but when i crop it i pay more attention

[green meadow]

I almost always limit resolution, but that is also something that I haven't found clear pattern yet. But often I use 2000 px for short edge.

[magic crown]

i put it in max mode for me for almost all of them

[green meadow]

Depending on how much I crop, but lets say 30-45mp for regular viewing pictures on normal screen feels bit over kill for me. But checking them on lightroom with 100% zoom or lager is great fun.

[magic crown]

yeah true

[dark ermine]

if it helps, i opened both these on browser and flipped back and forth, they look basically identical to me. only thing I can see a slight change in is the background banding. viewing from 1440p

[spring vault]

I always export jpg at 80% and down sampled to 5000px on the longest edge

if I want a higher res and higher quality copy in the future I'll just re export from the raw

[magic crown]

I really like the lightning

[hidden wyvern]

nuthatch, kinda been on a hiatus lately but think i mentioned leg pain awhile back? been some time seen a doctor and its a foot injury but wont stop me lol, might take a bit of a break on the photography stances though esp with the 500 f/4, think it was stressed and maybe that made it worse, shoes i dont think helped either. It can go away luckily, just needs time, called plantar fasciitis

just might not go on the 8hr long journeys lol

[remote remnant]

very nice

get well soon

[hidden wyvern]

thanks, might have to get shoe inserts or something, dont think id just give up a hobby or anything like that. Just might be a bit harder to get out as often lol

[gilded yarrow]

a7iv af is amazing

Also insane light today, only got that pic tho

[finite flower]

@hardy fox

[hardy fox]

dayum

[magic crown]

owl eyes are so goofy and funny

[bitter axle]

Found this in my library; took it in 2017 with what I think was my Nikon P600.

[dark ermine]

This red bellied woodpecker was going OFF on the cardinals 😂

[green meadow]

Smew males looks so cool, but sadly this seems to be always closest I can get to them. 😫

[scarlet tulip]

Skittish?

[gilded yarrow]

Holy shit what a gorgeous buzzard

Way too far away but still lol

Lol wtf, black Woodpecker just flew past my window

[gilded yarrow]

2nd wtf bird, osprey from my window lol

[daring imp]

Owl but too far away 🥲 is it possible to crop all the way or no?

Or will image be too soft?

[wide flint]

Seems pretty dang far away

And the face is also pretty much completely hidden by the shadow

[gilded yarrow]

Wouldnt be a good picture anyways

[green meadow]

Yes and location is really difficult. It is also only migrating through.

[daring imp]

Yup it was super far. But they live here so ill come back alot

[wide flint]

Is it a short-eared owl?

[daring imp]

Barn owl

2 of them my friend said 😍

[green meadow]

I think that it is short-eared owl if you photographed it in Finland. Barn owls doesn't live here.

Little ringed plover and severe case of heat haze. But is it nice effect or did I just get a blurry photo?

[scarlet tulip]

The way the background is effected is pretty cool

[spring vault]

think the sharpness is acceptable if u keep it wide

oil painting

[spring vault]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1198333040448000104/1367280173573079060/DSC04459-Enhanced-NR.jpg?ex=6814ab24&is=681359a4&hm=b7f32af6ef9201c62ee4158e756bc9b65d4cc3fad279f453a50ef1713cf1de49&

forgor to post here too

I went to a zoo six months ago and am still slowly going thru the backlog every time I feel like editing something

I also have pics from a vacation a year and a half ago I need to edit but I lack the motivation lmao

[scarlet tulip]

the eyelashes are pretty striking

[green meadow]

Details are awesome. Photographing at the zoo is fun, but it's not as easy as it might seem.

At first glance dunnock is nothing special just grey and brown bird. But when looked closer I think it has pretty nice plumage.

[spring vault]

yea high contrast

[magic crown]

Yeah some birds have classics colors but the contrast on it is really good

[green meadow]

Today's water birds.

[wide flint]

What kinda grebe/diver is the first species?

[green meadow]

Those are red-necked grebes. Those sing so beautifully that it is like music to ears. 😅

[scarlet tulip]

They seem willing to get close to the shoreline as well

[green meadow]

Yes, they've been nesting next to the local boat pier for at least the past six summers. I believe it's the same pair every year, so they're quite used to people by now.

[magic crown]

I did an insane thing today
I'm working now for a falconry and they allowed me to do this

[gilded yarrow]

Yoooo thats sick af

[magic crown]

yeah it's insane and we go for a walk to take photos of thems

[spring vault]

wowee bird friend

get some flying pics of it

[magic crown]

and for the work i made for clients packs of photos with a video for them (start at 50€)

and i also go with the falconry in city to cover their events

[spring vault]

in this chat we get the pictures for free

[gilded yarrow]

Too cheap

Others would want like 500 for photos + video

[magic crown]

For the start kit it's only 2 photos and 30s video

And here it cost less

[magic crown]

i did and theres a lot down below

[dark minnow]

So I’m out taking photos right and this couple walks by with parrots on their friggin shoulders

[spare yarrow]

Glad to see the harnesses!

[dark minnow]

Yeah, they were so cool

[gilded yarrow]

Lmao wtf, wild cormoranth that decided to live at a zoo

[magic crown]

Blud found the ultimate infinite food glitch

[magic crown]

meet Hibiki the barn owl from the falcorny
She is very playful and curious and loves to stand on people's heads

[spring vault]

barn owls r my fav here's some pics I got at a raptor show

[magic crown]

yeah they are so cute fluffy babies

now meet Kotchoum the Siberian Eagle Owl
he is very calm and often when he goes out he stays on a branch and observes us for a long time
The difference with the French Eagle Owl is that it has more white plumage

[remote remnant]

i’ve never seen them with their wings out

they look so skinny

[gilded yarrow]

Zoo so only counts 50% but damn I'm really happy with that pic

[magic crown]

you don't have natural reserve ? theres only in zoo ?

[gilded yarrow]

Yeah they dont live here in germany haha

[magic crown]

and for ppl who says "zoo is cheating☝️ 🤓" it's just an opportunity to see birds we never see and in some country there's a controlled protocol for their health

[magic crown]

come here we have a lot of different flamingos

[gilded yarrow]

Still looking for a place for summer holiday haha, might go to france

[magic crown]

come here you will see it's really good for birds

it can be funny

[spring vault]

rly strugging getting swallow bif
when theyre closer to me than this I cant keep em in the viewfinder lmao

they fly like lunatics

[magic crown]

here wild flamingos are not scared of humans so you can get really close to them

(you can feed them in hand if they trust you)

[gilded yarrow]

Loool thats what I'm trying too rn since theyre back

[spring vault]

pre capture wouldnt help me with this I need aim assist

[gilded yarrow]

This is the closest one I got so far

Still meh

Also saw one sitting for the first time today

[spring vault]

I have a lota sitting pics from when it started raining a bit and they chilled out

[magic crown]

the closed i've got

this day there's a lot of heat haze

and the best shot i got in flight

[spring vault]

orioles r also back I like how orange they are

no good pics yet

[magic crown]

btw one day i found a weird egret

I searched websites for the reason and in fact this particular egret actually has an error in its genetic code

what makes his plumage very thick and gray

[spring vault]

whats it supposed to look like

[gilded yarrow]

Is it leucistic?

[magic crown]

like that

[spring vault]

oh supposed to look like the egrets here

idk eu birds

[magic crown]

Many people think that's it, but others talk about as if there was a mixing of DNA with another species

[gilded yarrow]

Yeah looks like a leucistic grey heron so maybe heron x egret? Lol

[magic crown]

he is closely monitored by the LPO (a sort of animal police)

[spring vault]

you caught a shiny

[magic crown]

fr

[magic crown]

her DNA was identified as a egret with no trace of heron DNA

in any case the shade of color is very beautiful

[spring vault]

🍊

[magic crown]

orange birb

Meet Rosbeef the peregrine falcon, the little chatterbox of the group, he is very expressive and often shows his excitement by opening his wings upwards
they are pretty common here

[gilded yarrow]

33mp is great

[gilded yarrow]

Zoo birds and wild starling which let me get pretty close

[magic crown]

yeah that's a good point

you have some peacock here ?

[gilded yarrow]

Nah sadly not

[magic crown]

even that you don't

germany is really different of france

[gilded yarrow]

Lol yeah the only colorful birds we got are kingfishers and bee eaters lol

[magic crown]

wait like really ?

[gilded yarrow]

Yeah not even kidding

[magic crown]

nah bro wtf

[gilded yarrow]

Well pheasants are colorful too but the only really vibrant birds are those two

[magic crown]

come live here you will became insane lmao

[gilded yarrow]

[magic crown]

i can't count the numbers of colorful birds we have here

this is what i have in my region :
European Bee-eater
Common Kingfisher
European Goldfinch
Hawfinch
European Roller
Eurasian Golden Oriole
European Green Woodpecker

[gilded yarrow]

Ahh yeah we also got green woodpeckers and goldfinches, hawfinch too but barely ever see them

Apparently theres orioles too but I have yet to spot one

[magic crown]

they are really common here

common as a blue tit for example

The rarest thing I've seen so far is the purple heron, it's magnificent in rusty orange color

[magic crown]

If you come to France, you absolutely need to go see the Camargue reserve (the largest reserve of france), there are so many flamingos

and you can see them extremely close (less than 1 meter)

[hoary sigil]

Where on EARTH is this window?

[gilded yarrow]

Lmao yeah crazy weird, saw the Black Woodpecker again today

[hoary sigil]

I just get ducks lmao

[worldly furnace]

I want to get really nice closeup shots of birds but I keep failing so I would like some tips on technique, I track a birb and hit the shutter but it always seems to escape the frame when I am really zoomed in😔
surely the answer can't just be 'more practice' because I have been trying for months so I must be missing some technique secret

[hidden wyvern]

songsparrow and awkward angle kingfisher

...normally i could work with the kingfisher but that injury made it hard to get even that far lol (cliffside/slope with a fallen tree)

[inner abyss]

Saveable?

Need to stop forgetting to change my metering settings

[gilded yarrow]

Well there wont be details lol

but thats more of a distance problem

[inner abyss]

Let's hope my kingfisher wasn't at 12800 iso

Kidding I know it wasn't

[spring vault]

after a certain point modern cams are iso invariant so it doesnt rly matter if you underexposed

[spring vault]

warb time

[gilded gale]

We usually get Audubon's here near me, but I've gotten a few pics of Myrtles

[spring vault]

warblers r the best birds no bias

[gilded gale]

I really love this orange crowned I took recently

[spring vault]

going here next week

[gilded gale]

oooh that will be so much fun

[green meadow]

Finally black woodpecker came to visit my hide. It has been close few times but this was the first time that I could get some frames of it.

[finite flower]

sick

[spring vault]

finally got some decent bif iso was cranked tho as the sun was going down

catching a fly if u look closelier

[hidden wyvern]

Fluffy goslings already here

Figured they’d be soon, hence my pfp lol but still early

[gilded gale]

Where about? Here in the Northwest of the US we've had them for about 2 weeks now.

[hidden wyvern]

nova scotia in canada

theyd be canada goslings

think it was more toward the middle of may last yr

[gilded gale]

ah cool, Yeah, we've got bb Canada geese and Mallards running around currently, the first canada goose goslings we had were the first week of april this year

this was april 10, they were probably only a few days old

[hidden wyvern]

nice, supposedly in this spot people killed the eggs for w/e dumb reason but luckily they survived

mind you its also a natural marsh area, birds were there before the people

[gilded gale]

wow thats wild

[hidden wyvern]

idk what they really even do besides eat flowers lol

lots of them around here though in general about this time

ducklings probably soon too, big areas of water

[gilded gale]

Other than them eating too much grass in an area, and spreading of disease through poop im not really sure of their other negative effects

People really dont seem to like canada geese in general though cause they can be aggressive when nesting and they're so common around human areas

like, we had some pretty bad cases of avian influenza this year which primarily effects water fowl

[hidden wyvern]

would be wise for humans to not live next to a natural pond in any case if they dont like the following ecosystem

[gilded gale]

agree

[hidden wyvern]

next theyll spray for mosquitos and kill bumble bees

[gilded gale]

mhm

[hidden wyvern]

in my rural spot i welcomed all kinds of both irritating and nice animals/bugs and such, kinda miss that over the city sometimes lol

it wasnt just the geese either

like theres this beaver dam in the area, where theyve probably lived for years, im not sure what a beaver even does to bother a person, but someones annoyed

[gilded gale]

oh, we also have a motion being proposed to protect beavers here too

[hidden wyvern]

in this are its a park so i guess they would be protected, but people live on the upper hill part of the park which im guessing is whos complaining but the only thing would be flooding, and if theyre uphill, well, good luck to the water lol

people needa stop bothering things i think

figured something was up since my photo got rejected in a birds in the area group, my guess is theyre protecting the others from the same people (only found out really after). Usually thats exclusive to rare owls or something, lots of geese photos and such otherwise

[finite flower]

not my photo, but i was very sad to miss this family of woodpeckers

[scarlet tulip]

Nice elevated vantage for that shot, whoever did it

Eye level on the chicks

[jaunty sundial]

Beautiful

South Finland I imagine?

I'm about 50mile away from ya bear/moose spotting

[green meadow]

Thanks and I live in in Eastern/central Finland. 👋 Hope you will see some big mammals. 👍

[magic crown]

Some shot of Hibiki (my baby ❤️ )

[jaunty sundial]

So far nothing unfortunately, maybe I need to go off roading? I am on the russian side so I assume it's a bit more industrial and scares em

Saw a woodpecker though and couple sparrowhawks

Lovely day though

[finite flower]

nice

[scarlet tulip]

The fluffball feast is in full swing

[uneven bramble]

super cropped in babies

using a 105 sigma art lens so i couldnt get close

[green meadow]

Speaking of overkill....70,5 mp panorama bird photo. 😅

[spring vault]

hell yeah

[magic crown]

70mp damn just for that duck

[green meadow]

Sometimes with prime lens subject might come too close. So on those rare cases I try taking multiple shots and stitching them in post. This was just demonstration that it is possible with relatively static subjects. And now I'm able to print 1,5x3m picture of a duck. 😅

[spring vault]

do it

[green meadow]

It would be cool. But I really don't know where to put print of that size.

[hardy fox]

egg

[magic crown]

it's a quail ?

[hardy fox]

his majesty the quail

[magic crown]

the original birb

[hidden wyvern]

friendly goose

[stray plover]

Oh hey its my cousin

[spring vault]

wongster made me get a dot sight

I was very skeptical but it seems genuinely extremely useful for small flying birds

[hidden wyvern]

im glad im not the only "insane" person thinking about getting one in the background

im looking at a ttartisan model, let me know how it goes lol. Figure itd be nice on a prime

[hidden wyvern]

i do notice with shots like this it can be tough to see where the bird will be in a viewfinder cup, where with just my eyes its kinda easy

funny comparing it to cod but iron sights sometimes suck lol, red dot giving more of a wide view, real noticible on my telescope which basically needs it

[wide flint]

how much is something like this?

[spring vault]

ttartisan one was $50

[wide flint]

Nice, might give it a try as well

Honestly does seem really helpfull with getting bif shots

[hidden wyvern]

heard its annoying sometimes when zooming out (also just makes sense) but thats its also just easy going for the most part

like lining it up, then thats about it

[wide flint]

Yeah, it'd probably work best from a hide with a prime lens

[hidden wyvern]

im thinking of one although i mostly handhold, will give it thought

[finite flower]

id suggest getting another that doesnt have a built in hotshoe mount

so you can use a ulanzi f22 mount to mount it to your camera

this + f22 to hotshoe mount

[finite flower]

funny enough a certain someone in this server absolutely shits on dotsights

[spring vault]

yea u mentioned

[finite flower]

even though i think its wonderful for small bif

almost indispensable for kingfisher dives

[spring vault]

I put in a solid effort trying to get swallow bif for a couple days and didnt rly get anything good and within a couple mins with the sight I got some stuff better than ive ever gotten

[finite flower]

dot sights are alot more natural to aim than evf

[spring vault]

no magnification

aiming 750mm is a lot

once theyre out of the evf youre screwed

my af cant seem to keep up most of the time

but I take enough shots it hits eventually

[hidden wyvern]

im doing 1000mm sometimes, while generally successful it feels like it could be easier

[finite flower]

another issue i get alot is the AF focusing on the background

for that you gotta prefocus close

[spring vault]

some lenses have a button for prefocusing

so I guess u press that between attempts

[hidden wyvern]

my dot sight on my telescope works well enough, most basic red dot sight you can think of so if ican mount that might be fine

[finite flower]

i should try that

i just prefocus at a closeby leaf between every attempt

[spring vault]

the pond with the swallows is right next to a big childrens playground and im surprised no ones confronted me yet

[hidden wyvern]

"hes crazy, just about birds"

i get people looking at me when i handhold the 500 f/4 since its gigantic

probably looks like a sniper

[spring vault]

this pic is from last week ill edit todays pics later

[dark ermine]

flying cigar!

[finite flower]

nice shot

i like the transition of the sea more lmao

[hidden wyvern]

I do have this but not the mount, might work with it

good thing is its kinda just well, a red dot sight, doesnt really need to get complex or anything as long as its the right kinda lock on

i can verify this one worked on the 1200mm telescope anyway

[finite flower]

you can change the bottom part to the part i have attached

[finite flower]

looks to be the same reversed arca thing

[hidden wyvern]

prob is just arca something, not sure if itd be any cheaper to buy the adapters vs tt artisan though lol

will have to check

also not sure how great it is daytime but im sure its fine, just would always be red

[spring vault]

this is a job for a 3d printer

[green meadow]

That sounds really tempting. Is it set somehow to mach focal length so that when bird is in that sight it is also in the frame? And how do you hold the camera steady? I assume it is not possible to lean sight to your forehead while tracking birds?

[spring vault]

dot sight corrects for any error from not holding the camera perfectly straight so as long as the dot looks like it's on the bird you're taking pictures of the bird

[green meadow]

Really nice background and cute bird.

[spring vault]

and there's no magnification to the sight

[scarlet tulip]

Thanks- this bush has been a good spot to sit and wait

I’ll miss the yellow flowers once it’s done blooming

[spring vault]

I basically use the sight as a wide angle ovf and spam pictures while tracking the bird with blind faith that the autofocus is focusing on the bird and not the background

[green meadow]

So you hold it front of your face aim trough the sight and you check from rear screen that bird is in focus?

so yeah you don't have time to check focus and it is hit or miss. just like with evf

[spring vault]

dont check the screen til youre done shooting

[green meadow]

But really tempting indeed.

[spring vault]

check the pics u took and be surprised how well/not well it worked

[green meadow]

Yeah usually that window is quite narrow or small when blooming is at its peak.

[spring vault]

idk if it'll work on a tripod since it's like an evf but handheld it's nice

[scarlet tulip]

The cherry trees are still good for another week, so maybe I get lucky

[spring vault]

basically its a lot easier to track birds when you're zoomed out but then you don't have enough pixels in your photos so a dot sight gets you a zoomed out viewfinder while your lens is still fully zoomed in

[green meadow]

I don't know how to explain this but does it work despite how far or near the subject is?

[spring vault]

there's some parallax error based on how far away you calibrated it

since the sight is above the lens instead of in line

it's not a big diff tho

to calibrate it you point your lens at something in the distance and move the dials so the dot is on the same thing

[green meadow]

So calibration seem simple enough. So basically it is perfect only at one distance, but tolerance given with the frame gives some room to work with subject closer of further away.

[spring vault]

hardest part is still tracking the bird perfectly lol

it just makes it so you don't lose the bird so easily

[green meadow]

I can imagine that it isn't peace of cake even with help of that sight.

[spring vault]

need more practice

took 700 pics today ill cull tomorrow

wasnt that good for swallows today either they didnt fly low very often

[green meadow]

local stores has only Nikon version (219$) and OM-system version about (135$). ☹️ 50 bucks sounded too good to be true here. 😅

[spring vault]

from the pic it looks like the nikon and ttartisan came from the same factory

[scarlet tulip]

A cheap solution could be a 3D-printed picatinny tail for one’s tripod foot, and a cheap red dot one would buy for a rifle

[green meadow]

Price is just 4x higher 🤣

[green meadow]

That might be one solution.

[scarlet tulip]

Only disadvantage is that you lose the sling mount on the foot

[spring vault]

with my sigma I think I have space to 3d print a mount that clamps onto the skinny part near the lens mount and keep it close to my face

ill do more research later to see if more premium optics made for guns are worth the effort

I think I would like a small amount of magnification like maybe 2x

[green meadow]

Could that work, so that you start tracking with sight and then change to evf?

[spring vault]

I think if theres time to switch then u couldve started in the evf

[green meadow]

That sounds better. Closer bird gets then change to sight.

[spring vault]

like my previous attempts at taking swallow pics ill raise the lens up and itll be in the evf but ill immediately lose it again since its so zoomed in

and they fly chaotically

[green meadow]

true true

Swallows are really difficult. So damn fast and unpredictable.

[finite flower]

im my honest opinion after birding for a few months now, it works throughout the range with a 200-600 if you calibrate it nicely

[spring vault]

gonna see lots of warblers on friday idk how useful itll be there since they mostly just hop around

those are a lot easier

[finite flower]

if you prefocus infront and then shoot bif it will probably hit since the dot sight basically almost ensures the bird is in frame

i dont use dot sight for perched since theres no point

with fast small birds i feel a dot sight is worth a try if anything

its almost impossible to track once it leaves your evf

[spring vault]

last year when I went there was a bridge with a lotta swallows living under it so ill bring it in my bag

[finite flower]

get a nice bif fim (bird in flight, food in mouth)

@green meadow you are on a z9 right?

[green meadow]

Yes that's correct

[finite flower]

then the AF should be fine, even if far away you can still use the dot sight so long as its calibrated right

cause of parallex i generally calibrate to around 20-30m and it should be roughly there for any range

[green meadow]

OK I'm convinced. I need one of those. 😅

[spring vault]

my cam has great subject recognition but the actual af speed lags behind a little if the bird is flying too quickly away or towards the cam so most pics will be outta focus

[finite flower]

unless its far to the point you cant see with the dot sight... but at that point theres no point shooting anyway, its like 1mp or less

[finite flower]

theres a few i suggest, let me google first

i recommend one that uses the normal mount and not one that has the hotshoe mount and is unremovable

if anyone wants one thats highly recommended around my community its the

Vector optics Maverick ii plus 1x22

get it from aliexpress or similar

another good one is the OM systems dot sight

then to mount the dot sight you need

1. dot sight to f22
2. f22 to either hotshoe and/or cage (1/4 or 3/8)

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calibrate the dotsight on the first use, thereafter it should be ready to go everytime you take it on or off. just double confirm alignment before every shoot

for more context on the pictures above:

1st pic: hotshoe to f22
2nd pic: ignore (meant to be 3/8" to f22)
3rd pic: nato to f22

[wide flint]

What is the problem with using one that uses the hotshoe mount directly?

[finite flower]

no, just that it may damage it if you smash your dotsight on something

i have a friend that doesnt use hotshoe for mounting anymore cuz of that

but most of us just dont give a fuck

[uneven bramble]

darn now i want one

[gilded yarrow]

I always thought theyre dumb but hmm

maybe not

should still have one laying around somewhere

[scarlet tulip]

What are you doing in my swamp?

Excellent moment

[green meadow]

Yeah some angry birds. But to be honest it is combination of these two frames. 🤫

[scarlet tulip]

Clever composite

[spring vault]

what shutter speed are you using there

theyre zoomin

[green meadow]

shutter speed were 1/6400s

[green meadow]

Thanks. It is kind of cheating, but I think that it works really well.

Tree in the bc is not optimal thou.

[spring vault]

lol yeah it looked sharper than 1/4000

my cam only goes to that fast mechanical

and eshutter isnt worth using

I don't care about compositing or heavy editing in 99% of pics it just means u cant submit it to competitions

[wide flint]

Laughs in 1/32000 on the Z8

[spring vault]

iso one billion

[hidden wyvern]

Made an offer on a ttartisan sight, might get it if they accept

[daring imp]

Omg

[magic crown]

Oh nice one

[daring imp]

I hate it that its still abit far away and on a man made object 🥲

[worldly furnace]

first time I got a decent shot with manual focus! quite excited and would love feedback

[gilded gale]

@scarlet tulip Tree swallow day!

[scarlet tulip]

they're such goofy little things

[gilded gale]

love them so much, I've been on a huge swallow kick the past few weeks

[scarlet tulip]

tracking in flight with a long lens is tough, feels like a 400 would be easier than a 500

[spring vault]

I just so happen to be done culling my swallow pics from yesterday

[gilded gale]

Great minds 😉

[scarlet tulip]

What’s the fifth one? Never seen a swallow that purple

Martin?

[gilded gale]

Purple Martin, largest swallow we have in the PNW

Actually, might be the biggest swallows in North America?

[scarlet tulip]

I’ve lived in places where the town puts up nest boxes for them, they are very communal

Little martin hotels

[gilded gale]

They almost strictly nest in man made structures here. we have to put boxes up for them

[finite flower]

damn

dot sight goated

[spring vault]

yea

that one is cropped a lot tho

I had closer pics but none of them were particularly interesting

[gilded gale]

yeah, all the ones i have of them catching bugs are heavily cropped too T.T

I did find a leucistic Barn swallow i think though

And this was a cool series of a tree swallow catching a bug on the water

[scarlet tulip]

nice low vantage point for the series as well

[gilded gale]

also, didnt know that hummingbirds sometimes eat bugs too

[scarlet tulip]

probably pretty caloric

and easy to catch if you're that fast

[scarlet tulip]

pls to get closer

[scarlet tulip]

getting one unopstructed is a win

nice

[gilded gale]

Theyre always so cryptic 😦

[scarlet tulip]

they'll find branches and sit, very nicely, with their heads behind something leafy

[carmine fox]

guys it's sharper than that I promise
left my export settings on Facebook optimized

[magic crown]

Well today i'll do some hiding photography to shot a wild egret (main subject) and maybe a kingfisher and bee eaters

[magic crown]

Babies !

[dark ermine]

just realized I got featured on lightroom community

[worldly furnace]

Nice

[static magnet]

RDS are great

[static magnet]

they’re way over priced, get an Astro one and bodge a cold shoe onto it

[hidden wyvern]

old and same price as release date (2018 with nikon p1000), this in mind oly is even older so you could buy used likely for cheaper

somewhere between $30-100 sounds about right, usually just comes down to some reflections and a red dot light, not a very complex device

i found a ttartisan in my country for about 50 usd which ive placed an order for, although itll take time to get here, functionally im pretty sure the 3 are practically identical. As lad said there's also that option of using general dot sights as long as it works out moneywise, my astro dot sight is like $20 here

[daring imp]

Pls be sharp! Could be a decent pic

[stray plover]

Hello dust holy

[magic crown]

cute baby

[spring vault]

bwiab be like

[green meadow]

https://www.amazon.de/TTArtisan-Telephotography-Photography-Brightness-Compatible/dp/B0DFYLWTJM/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2LSFESVUF9LP0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.AA9E1SpLm6l5jjLtDjsFlpbn8-6p3UnF2TuR900QY1abjb0Ll2X6mIcwP5e3gg060feyGGJEsoecu65pE-g29g.eRe5di7Hk6udBK0QZfUEYwYziODaHXstPuGYE4nOc08&dib_tag=se&keywords=ttartisan+red+dot&qid=1746855407&sprefix=ttartisan+red%2Caps%2C154&sr=8-3&language=en_GB&currency=EUR This is somewhat reasonably prised, but I'm not sure if it is shipped from EU or not. If it is shipped from eg. China then there will be added some tax and customs fees so in the end it might cost as much as those other options we have here locally. I like foldable structure and calibration without tools on camera versions compared to rifle versions. 🤔

[remote remnant]

100-400ii based asf

[broken mantle]

Reminded me of this pic. Its like a group if birders lookin at an owl.

[broken mantle]

Is it that good? Costs 2x the mk i, but idk.

Might try borrowing one for a day

[remote remnant]

i have one

it's great

dare i say, perfect? i have a low res 20mp full frame sensor

not hard to get sharp shots on low res

[broken mantle]

This comment makes me want to try it lol https://www.michaelthemaven.com/canon-r7-recommended-lenses-which-have-enough-resolving-power-which-do-not/

[remote remnant]

well, it's almost perfectly sharp even on a 50mp full frame sensor, i assume it'll be great on the r7

very sharp indeed

#1041487027255914566 message i shot this birb with it too

[wide flint]

If its from Amazon it should just be shipped from the EU

[magic crown]

So fluffy and cute

[dark minnow]

The mk1 is pretty shit and the mk2 is worth every single penny

[broken mantle]

Quick question do you compose before you take the picture? Or is it a center point AF, and compose using crop on lightroom

Just noticed most of my bird pictures are on the center, might need to improve on that

[hidden wyvern]

shipped now, was about $24 off anyway but i haggled to see what itd do and got $3 more off

[dark minnow]

Before

[hidden wyvern]

i usually use something more static if im thinking the bird would move there, like focusing on a tree branch

[broken mantle]

The most i do is “birb’s looking right, imma keep the bird on the left” lol

So there is space to where the birds looking

[hidden wyvern]

for me ive adopted this focus thing as sometimes im using an ef 2x tc on my lens and the lens is already a bit old and so wouldnt af be

sometimes easier to manually focus lol

if im walking i just kinda do the single point thing, although ill move it if im guessing a bird will be in a certain spot

[broken mantle]

Nice. Im planning in getting one too

A friend who uses it recommends using one of those hotshoe riser, makes its more stable

[hidden wyvern]

im also trying out this servo thing ive never used and so far so good

[hidden wyvern]

my flash does have this type of mounting mechanism and it works fine in the flash's case, that in mind my flash isnt water resistant at all lol

...ive also had terrible variations of it though on cheaper things

[broken mantle]

Something like this

[hidden wyvern]

yeah i have that somewhere sitting around lol

think i got it off aliexpress for like $8

[broken mantle]

Its still selling here for $72

Saw some old singaporean guy using an air soft dot sight adapted to hotshoe

[hidden wyvern]

normally my currency its about $89

[broken mantle]

I couldn’t get the adapter here

[hidden wyvern]

yeah nothing wrong with that if you could get it

for me i checked and it outprices the dot sight here

i happen to have one for my dobsonian telescope but that in mind itd still cost more to mount it indirectly vs just buying the dot sight on ebay

thats what i get for being in canada i guess lol

[broken mantle]

My govt blocked aliexpress

And all the wildlife gear is sold there

[hidden wyvern]

probably whats making it pricey then, aliexpress is big now but was based in china and ttartisan also is from there (popular on aliexpress too) so now you got to deal with imports and such in the pricetags

think the ebay guy i got it from was selling overstock, no shipping fee or anything either. ttartisan and this ebay guy being in the same city. This in mind, it will arrive next month so not the quickest shipping

[magic crown]

Some not common heron

[carmine fox]

lenses tend to be sharpest in the center
If you have the resolution and want to minmax it just do that
otherwise not really
usually my bif stuff is off to the side

[daring imp]

Apparently my r6 mark 2 is very good with auto iso. Do u guys think this is a good range when its still sunny outside? Using 1/1250 ss

[scarlet tulip]

I don’t set a range

Setting a range only guarantees that you’ll end up with bad exposures every time you exceed that range; the best way to handle auto-ISO is to be mindful of your settings as you shoot and adjust aperture and shutter speed to bring the ISO down when necessary

[spring vault]

fav pic from messing with pre capture on a1ii for like 30 mins

[scarlet tulip]

palm warbler? nice

that's well shot

[spring vault]

yea it was perched on a branch and pre cap caught the take off

[spring vault]

cape may warb

[scarlet tulip]

Nice catch

[spring vault]

I gotta catch em all

going to point pelee national park in canada tomorrow

[scarlet tulip]

That ought to be fun

[hidden wyvern]

goslings + mom for mothers day

[gilded gale]

My first 365 days of birding are officially over as of May 08, 2025. Across 209 separate days, and among 160 different species, I have kept 4043 pictures of birds in the year of 2024, and am currently at 2074 pictures in 2025. These numbers amount to 236gb of data. My average "keeper rate" is between 2-5% of the pictures I take meaning that I took well over 150,000 pictures of birds over that year.

[worldly furnace]

This is definitive rizz

[worldly furnace]

The first one is a heron!? I always thought it was a stork lol

They're everywhere where i live

[magic crown]

Yeah it's a Squacco Heron and for the second one it's a Purple Heron

[green meadow]

Eurasian bittern, I often hear this bird but seeing it is really rare delight.

[gilded yarrow]

before

[gilded yarrow]

Yeah thats the same thing but cheaper lol

[magic crown]

Looks with the eagle owl feathers but with the size of an heron or egret

[daring imp]

Boys they turned out pretty good. I think?

[spring vault]

remember to save the jpgs in srgb so discord shows the colors correctly in the thumbnails

[wide flint]

Nice dude

Still hunting for a short eared owl myself

The mask on the owl in the 2nd picture could be improved a bit tho

[daring imp]

I didnt edit! My friend from philippines did. I suck at editing tho. I think he did a good job!

[daring imp]

There is 2 living in a big field in my city like 10km away. Saw them 2 days straight haha

[magic crown]

guys i don't know what to choose what you prefer ?
the 3:2 version or the 5:2 version ?

[daring imp]

Left one is cool!

[magic crown]

i want to order one for my exhibit but idk which one to take

both are too good lol

[daring imp]

Will remember that ty!

@wide flint would u mind trying to edit the other pic u said needed better masking?

[daring imp]

Does this work? Changed to srgb now @spring vault

[wide flint]

I'm quite busy rn and also not that good at editing tbh

[daring imp]

Ait!

Do backlit shots work in bright daylight or does it have to be golden hour?

I wanna try getting some backlit shots this summer!

[scarlet tulip]

golden hour gives better light

[daring imp]

Tyy aiit! When is that?

[scarlet tulip]

hour before sunset usually

[daring imp]

Okay! Like 2/3?

Oh u said hour ait my english is lagging sorry 🤣

[scarlet tulip]

for backlit birds it's best to find a spot where they won't be directly between you and the sun

eg here, the sun is behind the bird but not so much that you're shooting right into it

[daring imp]

Ohh yea thats what i noticed just now when i did it today! I moved abit to the left so the sun wasnt straight on

Moved like this

But this is too bright to make it work right? @scarlet tulip

[scarlet tulip]

Ideally the sun is closer to the horizon

[green meadow]

It belongs to heron family. It usually stays in long reeds and it has great camouflage for that so it is rarely visible. In the other hand its voice is really distinct fog horn like and is audible from great distance.

[daring imp]

Daamn where is this? I wanna photograph that too now!!

[green meadow]

It is quite common on wetlands and shallow lakes at Southern Finland but as I said difficult to see. This one was at Varkaus on lake called Ruokojärvi.

[daring imp]

Not here in österbotten? @green meadow

[green meadow]

I'm sure that there is places where you can find one.

[carmine fox]

New bird day
Teal Duck I believe

[dark ermine]

went out to local pond for some ducks, saw a goose get in a tiff with a duck 😄

[carmine fox]

we must have the same ducks
caught a nice burst of these two characters fighting over a female

[dark ermine]

yeah looks like! I'm thinking the one I saw was a muscovy mixed with something

[magic crown]

yeah it's a hybrid

[spring vault]

point pelee today was better than magee marsh friday

saw lots more quantity and variety of warblers and they didn't hide in the bushes as often

and it wasn't as crowded

[carmine fox]

which one?

I feel like its oversharpened
but it might just be me staring at it too long

[daring imp]

These are here pretty close to me! Didnt know that they couls get this big. Super rare here tho

my freind acctualy said he heard one yesterday, but didnt see with his camera @green meadow

[daring imp]

right one!

[daring imp]

Anyone else using a bigger screen on their camera? Its acctualy much easier with it. If camera is on the ground etc

[magic crown]

i always use my cam screen

and if i need to see more detail i use the vf

[carmine fox]

ive been hearing my merlin bird of the day for the past hour and I can't for the life of me find it

[daring imp]

Omg.. i never really hunted for golden hour photos and now on my first day i get this... damn 🤣

Hope to god its sharp. Always wanted a shot like this. Almost shot the whole sequence when he got the fish

[gilded yarrow]

I mean for Video its useful, but photo? naah

[magic crown]

maybe for the focus peaking ?

[spring vault]

https://youtu.be/UYJFiEtCoiQ?si=S2OvL2SAQvyS1Mu6

Jan argues for using a monitor in this vid

it's pretty situational

but in some situations it seems nice

I'm not gonna buy one tho

also as mentioned in the video it'll work best on canon cameras since on Sony and Nikon having a screen plugged in disables the evf

[eternal igloo]

how’d u wrap ur lens with camo?

it doesn’t look like tape that’s why I ask

[spring vault]

u can buy camo covers for most popular lenses

[daring imp]

is this possible to save? looks ok sharp further away but zoomed in not that sharp sadly. it was soo far away

[daring imp]

it is some rubber thing u put on the lens! it was only 120 euros but worth it. it will save the lens from bumps etc

[eternal igloo]

oh wow yeah I definitely need that lmao

and tbh I think if u rotated and cropped it up a lil bit it would look nice

[spring vault]

yeah not every pic needs to be a close up and the scenery there is nice

[magic crown]

Is there anyone here who has already tested tele macro on an eye with a Sony 200-600mm ?
I'm probably going to do some for the falconry but I don't know if my 200-600mm is good for that (the falconry birds might be afraid of me getting close)

[daring imp]

Is it possible to make the bird abit sharper? Thanks guys! @spring vault @eternal igloo

[spring vault]

go back and retake the pic except better

you said this was your first day trying this

there will be more days

[eternal igloo]

😭 if only we lived with technology like that

[daring imp]

Aiit! Thanks bro i hope so

[daring imp]

Omggg @green meadow i also got a pic of one!

[green meadow]

Wow, maybe it isn't that difficult to see after all. It just took five years for me to see it for the first time. 😅

Last weekend I installed two new nesting boxes and now both had pied flycatcher singing nearby.

[daring imp]

It is. I was lucky! We heard it multiple times and tried to get closer and then it flew away

It only few a few meters away it lives there

I guess im very lucky now 😂 @green meadow my friend who has tried aswell have never seen one. Haha

[scarlet tulip]

warbler day

[spare yarrow]

Bombs away!

[daring imp]

looking thru my old pictures from america. this is one of my favorites from my american trip. its a quail right and theyre super common there? i photographed one when i visted joshua tree park

[dark ermine]

looks like 3 variants but all really just west coast. I've personally never seen one living east coast NA my whole life. so that's a really neat sighting! https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Gambels_Quail/overview

American robins on the other hand for example, they errwhere lol

[daring imp]

Oh really?

[magic crown]

tiny fluffy birb

i love their little size they are so cute

[scarlet tulip]

another big warbler day

[green meadow]

Really beautiful bright colored birds and nice pictures. Specially first one is stunning. Often feels like majority of our birds are just bit boring grayish small birds compared to what you guys have there.

like this lesser whitethroat

[green meadow]

Few days back got really bright sunny day so I decided to try shutter speed 1/32000s. I waited and waited and these we only action shots I was able to get for testing purposes. ISO were reasonable 5000, but sharpness isn't that much better than with like 1/6400s. So it is not necessary to use that high shutter speeds for bif. I would say results will be better if you choose suitable shutter speed rather than highest possible. I can't even imagine what would be the scenario where you really need that 1/32000s???

[scarlet tulip]

Your woodpeckers and tits make up for what do seem like some greyish warblers

Our chickadees are quite dull by comparison to something like a great tit

As for 1/32000, I imagine it’s for fast primes

The f/1.2s maybe

[remote remnant]

58 noct in broad daylight 🗣️

[daring imp]

Maybe really fast planes is what im thinking 1/32k would be used for nothing else. Maybe a rocket launch? But no way for birds haha

[daring imp]

Nice pics tho!

[green meadow]

Aa so like using widest aperture without need for any nd-filters or so. 🤔

[wide flint]

Yeah, can be really nice with f1.2 lenses I heard

[green meadow]

And that 58 noct is even widerwith aperture f/0.95. 😵

[daring imp]

@green meadow thoughts on these?

[gilded yarrow]

try darkening background on the 1st one So the bird doesnt blend in as much

2nd is nice, sad that the bird is facing away

[daring imp]

yea autofocus had to fuck up when the bird was straight and next to me... as usual

[gilded yarrow]

Ahh that sucks

[spring vault]

u gotta export these in srgb

[daring imp]

only for discord right?

[spring vault]

srgb everywhere unless you know what you're doing

[daring imp]

@spring vault better?

[spring vault]

yes

[daring imp]

What do u guys think of this?

[eternal igloo]

I think the shadows are too bright

[daring imp]

Still good no? Dont wanna bug my friend over tiny things 😂

He helped me edit these

[eternal igloo]

ur choice tbh

[daring imp]

I like it! Can show a guide about shadows? Gonna tryhard editing now when i dont have much work @eternal igloo

So i know what u mean @eternal igloo

[eternal igloo]

I’m still here 😭 and idk I mainly just edit based on feel I never tried any guides, I can go mess with some shadows on my photos to try to show examples later

[daring imp]

Okay ty!

[daring imp]

Are these too much ai corrected or they work for u guys? They were so far away so we tried using topaz ai to fix the blurr

[astral saffron]

Too much

[green meadow]

First one is soft because of missed focus and there's nothing you can do to it while editing. It is what it is and sometimes it happens no matter what. Otherwise OK, but reeds looks probably bit too dark and unnatural on first one. Second one would be perfect if bird were flying towards you like it does in the first picture. Overall good job and keep on practicing. 👍

[primal aspen]

could someone please help me identify this bird was taken in south west England

[daring imp]

Thanks alot bro!

[daring imp]

The left pic is still decent tho? I guess theres not many shots of that bird of the back?

[wide flint]

Seems like a young Blackbird that just left the nest

[primal aspen]

that could be it i have a pair of black birds that nest very close to where i saw this guy

[spring vault]

aww baby

[primal aspen]

cheers

[eternal igloo]

first photo is the shadow balance i like for this image
second image is high shadows
third image is low shadows

[green meadow]

Definitely young bird, but I would say it is a young robin, because it looks really small.

also beak is probably too small to be black bird

[primal aspen]

could be also a pair of robins that nest next to this bush

[green meadow]

It is decent and keeper until you get better one.

[wide flint]

Yeah I agree with Anti here, seems to be a young Robin

[primal aspen]

ig ill know 100 percent later on but cheers for the narrow down its only just outside my window so ill see if it goes orange or black

idk how fast the babies grow but its almost a tad bigger than an adult robin

🤷🏻‍♂️

[green meadow]

Younglings are sometimes really difficult to define. Please let us know what it is if you get certainty of it.

[primal aspen]

https://tenor.com/view/snake-salute-mgs3-gif-9277925

[daring imp]

Thanks brother... i think i know now why my camera didnt focus the bird and im super depressed... apparently manual focus was on my lens.... 😢 i noticed that today when i checked my lens. Rookie misstake

I guess im double lucky cause i still got sharp images?? 😂

[spring vault]

https://youtu.be/VM4MO7Rh2N8

lol

[spring vault]

100mp swans lol

[scarlet tulip]

that wide angle is really nice

[daring imp]

Thank god i have all my pictures saved. Some bangers from my america trip that i missed to edit. From 2021 😂

[magic crown]

rocket birb

[dark ermine]

used open ai's SORA to animate my great blue heron pic...pretty cool

[scarlet tulip]

That’s quite clever

It’s uncanny in places but the algorithm does a good job generally

[spring vault]

birds already move like robots so it works

have sora animate the bird eating spaghetti

[dark ermine]

it turned out both good and terrible 😂

[spring vault]

lmao

dot sight came and I tried to take it out but it's friggin hot outside so I'm going to go back inside

[magic crown]

is that a sigma tele ?

[spring vault]

yea 500 5.6

[magic crown]

damn i don't even know they have a 500mm

is it that good ?

[spring vault]

it's good kinda expensive but the main advantage is it's about a kg lighter than 200-600

and a little sharper

[scarlet tulip]

It’s basically a 500PF for the E mount

[eternal igloo]

what a very plump bird

[carmine fox]

I think the shadows matching the rest of the exposure gives it a very monochromatic effect that I very much like
I took one similar to this and I was envisioning what you did here but the green grass kinda ruined it

[daring imp]

I dont see green grass. Its yellow to me. Its reeds

[daring imp]

Oh u meant ur pic had green grass? Hahaha 😆

[carmine fox]

Yes I meant mine haha

#🦀・creatures message

[hidden wyvern]

Think I found a barn swallow, bit of a lifer so unsure as of yet

Blue and orange swallow bird

[hidden wyvern]

yeah, not too bad for a first photo

[spring vault]

nice

[magic crown]

love the tones

[spring vault]

went to ohio for the first day of the biggest week warbler festival and going back tomorrow for the last day

this time imma see if I can borrow an a1ii for longer

I havent even edited my bird pics from last week yet

other than like two

[hidden wyvern]

i still got a few myself from today, duck pond plus tree swallows as well, but the barn swallow was unexpected

[daring imp]

Anyone else here have camo when going out birding? Found my old one i got a few christmases ago

[spring vault]

Sonys last day here was yesterday oh well

I got some nice pics

less crowded than last week

[scarlet tulip]

I have some milsurp stuff I use, nothing serious

[spring vault]

https://imgur.com/a/I47aO8K

[scarlet tulip]

That’s clever

[spring vault]

good day so far

[daring imp]

Are older 600mm primes durable? Accidentally tipped my lens when it was standing on grass. Nothing sounds loosr and everything works so should be fine right?

I also have camo on the lens for extra protection

[scarlet tulip]

if it works, it's good to go

[hidden wyvern]

yeah its like metal

[daring imp]

Aiit ty bros

[daring imp]

Our cottage camera captured this lol

Looks so fake hahah

Looks like a tiny kuukkeli @green meadow

[green meadow]

Apparently trail cameras frame rate matches well redstarts wingbeat frequency. It nests in tree holes and nest boxes so it might have checked if camera is place for nest. 🤔 😄

[daring imp]

Oh thats the name? Is it a rare bird? We have tons of different spicies in our cottage

Thats a new one then for us

[green meadow]

Yes and no. It is quite common bird. But it is migrating bird so it is summer visitor.

[daring imp]

We also have these. Ive seen 2 but no pictures yet. Idk the english name. They are pretty rare too @green meadow

Or no? They look pretty rare

Idk if its the smaller or bigger once we have. Didnt see that well

[green meadow]

Wikipedia is good for finding English names. Just find one in Finnish or Swedish and then change language. Well it is not that rare either but it changes from year to year because they go there where is lots of pine cones. And yes there is two really similar looking species (parrot crossbill and red crossbill) and I think that red crossbill is more common.

[daring imp]

Oh alright! Even tho those are common i rarely see them

Theyre so cool id love a pic fr. U have a pic of them? @green meadow

[magic crown]

"Hello there" ahh bird

[green meadow]

Not very good photo no. But this is decent one. They are usually high up in the trees so they are really difficult to photograph.

and this is male red crossbill as far as I know.

and this is female

[magic crown]

i think he have a really good dream

so cute

[eternal igloo]

he’s so fluffy 😭

[green meadow]

Here is some quite rare species here in Finland and these all are from last weekend birding trip to Liminka and Hailuoto. 1. common shelduck (300 pairs nests here) 2. ruddy turnstone (4000-5000 pairs) 3. gadwall (700 – 1 500 pairs). Sadly only bad or decent photos.

[magic crown]

here we have a lot of them in summer (and some few in winter)

[magic crown]

yeah and so cuddly

[green meadow]

We have these only in summer few here and there, usually only at the coast. I live in inland so there is a small change to see them here where I live on migrating times, but only really small change.

[magic crown]

yeah it must be a little rarer for the moment, where I live it is a migratory passage as well as a habitat for summer and winter migratory birds so we often see them passing near my home

[green meadow]

What about do you have bluethroaths there? It nest here in far north. So for me it is possible to see one when it is moving to north or back to south.

[magic crown]

yep we have those only in winter and summer (south of france only for winter)

[green meadow]

You have great variety of species there. 👌 I probably have to move to France.

[magic crown]

In the region where I live we have the greatest variety of birds (more than 350 different species), we are often very popular for bird photography precisely with a large number of reserves (including that of Camargue which has all the species of the south)

[green meadow]

Do you keep track how many species you have seen?

[magic crown]

It ranges from the pink flamingo and the scarlet ibis, to the eagle owl

[magic crown]

I see a lot of them personally so not really after I generally take photos as proof of sight

I must have seen a hundred different species already

We have marshes, forests, plains, plateaus, mountains, lakes and ponds, rivers, the "Bouche du Rhones" are very rich in relief

[daring imp]

Ohh super nice bro!

[green meadow]

I usually keep track on yearly basis. So I'm not sure how many species I have seen all together but for this year it is 138 species so far. Las year was new record and it was 163.

[daring imp]

@green meadow also this that we both saw are rare asf

1000 ish atm

[magic crown]

My goal would be to take a photo of the tawny owl, it is very common here and I hear his sing very often

[daring imp]

My all time goal is the philippine eagle. Its soo nice looking and only 200 of them exist still

[magic crown]

not bad actually

it's good you keep have good variety

[magic crown]

yeah i heard they are not really easy to get

[daring imp]

I saw u in 100 lintjua btw! We both got shit ton of likes haha @green meadow

[green meadow]

Well that requires two or three trips to west cost for me to achieve that.

[green meadow]

Actually I think that I saw your photo there too.

[magic crown]

On my current bird photography list, I have to get :
-great crested grebe
-purple heron (portrait of its face)
-tawny owl
-European roller
-bee-eater
-Eurasian Hoopoe

[daring imp]

Def did! Haha

[daring imp]

I know where a crested crebe lives. Next to the hospital here and not afraid of humans. 2 of them and 1 egg

[magic crown]

Not far away I have a reserve where there are a lot of them (more than 100 individuals) but it is very difficult to approach them I think I will set up a hide to have them up close

[daring imp]

I want a loon picture this summer. Havent gotten one yet

[green meadow]

this one is from my home towns lake.

[magic crown]

i don't have this in south but in north of france there some

[eternal igloo]

Oh I go up to a lake in that has like 10 loons and a protected island of loon nests it’s really cool

super skittish and pretty hard to get a photo of bc they just dive and then travel like a mile 😭

[green meadow]

That is true

If they dive you never know where they will come back next time.

[magic crown]

The largest reserve in my region is 132.32 km² large, which is bigger than Paris and Marseille combined (biggest city of france)

[green meadow]

Nice and it is important to have that kind of places for birds. 👌

[daring imp]

This is my rarest bird yet so far. One of my first pictures if i remember when i just started photographing @green meadow only 10-15 pairs in finland. Milvus migrans

I couldnt find english name

[magic crown]

this is the whole reserve

[green meadow]

Black kite and yep it is rare here.

[magic crown]

they are so common here they live in the city

[daring imp]

Oh thanks. Damn i was lucky then

Photographed it in ruka while i was photographing in a bear hide in 2019/2020 @green meadow

[magic crown]

a bear hide ?

[daring imp]

Isk what it is called

Photohide?

They were feeding wild bears and i was in a photohide