Bird Photography

[finite flower]

but theres also some pittas here and there, but need to watch out for updates

theres also a BK nest, and PF at kranji if you wanna try that

if you wanna explore, PRP and SBG are not bad places

[gilded yarrow]

Thats a rather weird bird

[gilded yarrow]

greedy ahh nuthatch LMAO

After that he started pecking at it like a Woodpecker cuz it was too big for him

[magic crown]

chill bro it's all yours

[gilded yarrow]

He took huge pieces with him like 4x

A bit too soon for him to already have babies tho so maybe he was just insanely hungry lol

[magic crown]

bro have a whole family to feed or what

[gilded yarrow]

Still didnt get any good in flight shots, I somehow had motion blur even at 1/4000th

Either there was motion blur or it was out of focus

smh

[magic crown]

i got the same with a magpie who took a whole ball of fat just for him

[left brook]

how u get so close

[astral saffron]

Crows can be pretty tame in public parks or cities where they are used to people or are looking for food

[left brook]

yeah... no parks like that here

[magic crown]

Public park in a huge city (and i was eating so he tried to stole it lmao)

All shots i did at this park (yes we have parakeet)

[charred holly]

Parakeets have invaded Europe like crazy

[green canyon]

such a generational thumbnail

[gilded yarrow]

burd

[gilded yarrow]

Bro HOW is this sharp at 1/2500th and my shots have motion blur at 1/4000th

something aint adding up

[spring vault]

when wings r flapping back and forth the wings stop

like heres hummingbird mid flap vs full flap at 1/4000

[gilded yarrow]

Yeah but I also get motion blur on the body

[scarlet tulip]

Shit happens

There is no sure-fire way to guarantee a sharp shot

[gilded yarrow]

Yee I need a spot where I can practice in flight shots more than like once every 10 mins or so lol

[spring vault]

you gotta follow the bird with the camera

like panning a car

[gilded yarrow]

Yeahh that may be the problem

the bird was too close for that lmao couldnt even move that fast

But the tits are so fast I'm not sure how I would do that either way lol

cant even predict where theyre going

[grizzled nebula]

He’s using a canon

[gilded yarrow]

Yes with a lens thats even more expensive than the sony equivalent

Lmao

[grizzled nebula]

Shouldve gotten an is ii

Much cheaper and sharper

Actually is II is sharper in the center with tcs but softer at the mid frame and periphery

[gilded yarrow]

Ah yes because adapting a 15 year old lens to a new cam with a new mount definitely makes sense

Because of 5% of imaginary sharpness that dont matter irl

[fast knoll]

if u looked at the real file it would prob not be sharp

400 with a 2x just won't be that good even if it's a prime

[grizzled nebula]

it is

i think ur underestimating the primes

[grizzled nebula]

he's at F/7.1 but it won't be far from this sharpness

also remember this is a screenshot so it's sharper than it looks here

[fast knoll]

nah

2x degrades quality on any lens

we're viewing a compressed instagram screenshot

[gilded yarrow]

Yeah but its still a 13k€ prime

[grizzled nebula]

it does but it doesn't make it bad, it's still incredibly sharp and sharper than many lenses

[gilded yarrow]

And it still has an insane amount of detail

[fast knoll]

the screenshot u sent looks artificially sharpened to me

can u send the link if possible?

[gilded yarrow]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DUlakmLjXUd

jacklodgephotography

Well today was an exciting first for me on a few occasions... I’ve got my hands on a loan R6III to test so took it for a little spin down at the local nature reserve 😮‍💨

After getting everything setup the way I like my cameras to be, I then I got to christen it with my first picture of a Goldcrest (the UK’s smallest bird by the way)...

Likes

3507

Instagram

[grizzled nebula]

the instagram compression is just horrible icl

[fast knoll]

r6iii also has really good autofocus

[grizzled nebula]

even the screenshot of the data is horrible

[grizzled nebula]

apparently beats the R5II in some situations

[fast knoll]

it does yea

newer af

[grizzled nebula]

but ofc R5II also has some other stuff that makes it better

[fast knoll]

yea

[grizzled nebula]

in AF

if i waited 6 months i could've gotten an R6III

[fast knoll]

lol

[gilded yarrow]

Eh its not too bad if you sharpen a bit more than you usually would beforehand

[grizzled nebula]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/156454237@N06/55110132143/in/pool-canon-rf-400mm-f28l-is-usm/

2x tc

[fast knoll]

hmm im not even able to zoom in too much

i think my level of pixel peeping is just a little too insane lol

[grizzled nebula]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robamyphotos/55001033321/in/pool-canon-rf-400mm-f28l-is-usm/

[fast knoll]

pretty nice

especially with the 24mp only of the r1

anyway check out this parrot i found in a tree hole today im putting a lot of effort into editing these lol

[grizzled nebula]

nice

[grizzled nebula]

also would've been sharper if he stopped down a bit

while scrolling through i've seen so many images that were missfocused even with an R1 smh

[left brook]

how big is it

[left brook]

holy sharp on that female cardinal

even on 32mp

crazy

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robamyphotos/54975822585/in/pool-canon-rf-400mm-f28l-is-usm/

[green canyon]

6999 photos

thats a lot

[left brook]

yeah

so soft

softer than my 150-600 on apsc

[remote remnant]

fym soft its perfectly sharp

open in browswr

[left brook]

it looks soft

[spring vault]

is it cropped

[remote remnant]

extremely cropped

🔥

lemme see if i can find raw

yeah nah that shi is gone

but its cropped a ton

[grizzled nebula]

i didn't manage to go today cause i was supposed to start work at 8 but ended up starting at 12 cause the crane wasn't there when it was supposed to be there 💀

so i finished late

[left brook]

u should go tmr

[grizzled nebula]

needs some denosiing aswell

[grizzled nebula]

i'll try

[left brook]

is your 600 this sharp

[grizzled nebula]

sharper

[fast knoll]

my go to image when the 100th sharpness discussion begins

[left brook]

looks kinda soft

[grizzled nebula]

sharp

[left brook]

what SS was it

[remote remnant]

@left brook bomboclatttt

[left brook]

smol crop

[left brook]

damn

[grizzled nebula]

i should've used dxo for the denoising

[spring vault]

looks like u shot thru a fence

[grizzled nebula]

i did

took ages to try and get it hidden

i re edited it after but i feel like the other one is too overexposed now from my pc screen

[left brook]

lmao

shoulda gotten a color thingy before the 600

calibrator

[grizzled nebula]

my monitor is just so shit

it's old

[left brook]

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-ultrasharp-52-thunderbolt-hub-monitor-u5226kw/apd/210-bthw/monitors-monitor-accessories

get this

[grizzled nebula]

heavily cropped but still sharp

[grizzled nebula]

I AM NOT SPENDING 3K FUCKING EUROS ON A MONITOR

[spring vault]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1198333040448000104/1247326504224821379/DSC02374-Enhanced-NR.png?ex=69a96494&is=69a81314&hm=e2b4b092c5017fc0705e14c72023bba5d83a799a4a1ab1ae1670619e65514765&

[grizzled nebula]

i'm not elon musk

[spring vault]

u can get a 4k oled for like $700 nowadays

[left brook]

but its 52 inches and goated

[grizzled nebula]

https://tenor.com/view/i-dont-give-a-fuck-idgaf-dgaf-friday-chris-tucker-gif-4080558

i'm a broke ass mf

[remote remnant]

27 inches has never not been enough for me bro wtf

[grizzled nebula]

not even oled

loses aura

[left brook]

its the big dogg monitor

[spring vault]

my lens may be sharp but my cams only 26mp

[grizzled nebula]

same

well mine is 24mp

[spring vault]

I wanna peep pixels more

[left brook]

imagine having monitor with burn in issues

[grizzled nebula]

R5II soon

[grizzled nebula]

look at my phone

there's burn in everywhere

[spring vault]

my monitor is 4 years old and oled and no burn in so far and modern oled is even more resilient

[left brook]

😭 what we flexin

[spring vault]

I think ppl just complain about burn in as a cope for not having oled

[left brook]

oled is worse for color work isnt it

oled is cool because black in black room but thats really it iirc

[grizzled nebula]

my S21 ultra screen is dead

[left brook]

and gaming

slightly

[grizzled nebula]

there's burn ins all over the screen

it's actually so annoying

[spring vault]

oled can be very color accurate

for gaming it's much better cos instant pixel response time and zero smear

for photo editing u can be fine on high end ips

[left brook]

not 52" and not 6k trash trash trash trash

fuck

[grizzled nebula]

not even 8k smh

[left brook]

lock in

[grizzled nebula]

[left brook]

lmao

oled buggin

[grizzled nebula]

it's an old phone tbf

[spring vault]

what's what you get for not reading your texts fast enough

[grizzled nebula]

i barely even use my phone

[tough hull]

Luckily not 14

[fast knoll]

Just edit on ur MacBook

Fire colors

[magic crown]

some area seems oversaturated (on the owl)and overexposed (on the upper left corner) the mask seems too strong

[dark ermine]

that lens they cited is 13k

[dark ermine]

how about this one lmao

[magic crown]

fair enough to see every pixel

[dark ermine]

for a real suggestion I use https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C4Z8RFY9 and very happy with it personally

[magic crown]

i use the equivalent of this screen (no longer produced and replaced by this one) https://amzn.eu/d/06HvU4TR

[wise trench]

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/3NFmP6/dell-alienware-aw2725df-267-2560-x-1440-360-hz-monitor-aw2725df I use this, great for gaming

[fast knoll]

duck

[scarlet tulip]

nice ruddy

never seen a ring-neck, those seem fun

[sharp ether]

incredible quality

[gilded yarrow]

same

[shut hazel]

it cannot be as bad as mine

[left brook]

yeah?

[left brook]

wish there were more than just mallards here

[gilded yarrow]

bro your lens is a bit dirty

[grizzled nebula]

And it started raining a lot so i went back home

[left brook]

sne dpic

[grizzled nebula]

Didn’t get any pics

I fell in mud and it started raining

Stayed there about 5 mins

Now just dropped my phone I water again

Lost the ultrawide completely

[gilded yarrow]

elite phone wildlife photographer LMAO

@grizzled nebula what do you think about this

Theres three of them at once

[grizzled nebula]

Nice

Ive seen some too

I need to go find this black woodpecker

It’s meant to rain the entire week tho

[gilded yarrow]

middle spotted too lol

[magic crown]

You need a hide for them

They are not really used to humans

[left brook]

😭😭😭 never go to that lake bro

[grizzled nebula]

This day has been so shit

[tough hull]

Yeah

[green canyon]

im so sorry for you lol

what a disasterous chain of events

[gilded yarrow]

fr💀

poor guy, finds the only lake somewhere close to him and its cursed or sum lmao

[magic crown]

Bro have the worst living location far away of everything

[fast knoll]

lmao

at least ur big lens didnt fall in mud or something

[grizzled nebula]

it did

[fast knoll]

oh hell naw

is it ok

[grizzled nebula]

yh

just a small little chip

it's a beast

[fast knoll]

damn i would cry

[green canyon]

same

[gilded yarrow]

Bro did all that just for a mourning dove

Light is nice tho

[grizzled nebula]

game is the game

anyway MIGHT try finally going to the lake tomorrow

i hope it doesn't rain again

[gilded yarrow]

Ohhhh this wasnt the lake?

[grizzled nebula]

no

[gilded yarrow]

Thought thats where it all happened LMAO

[grizzled nebula]

nah the place where i heard the black woodpecker a few weeks ago was on the way there so i stopped quickly and then what happened happened

[gilded yarrow]

Ahhhh

But you were on the way to the lake

[grizzled nebula]

yh but had to go back cause of rain

[fast knoll]

plenty of bokeh

i might drop highlights a tiny bit on the head

rlly nice lighting tho

[green canyon]

mourning doves are cool

[gilded yarrow]

Oh yeah 100%, I like them too

[grizzled nebula]

it's a collared dove

[green canyon]

i would increase saturation and exposure in the eye

its very pretty

[green canyon]

yes very good

[gilded yarrow]

Ah yeah thats what I meant lmao

We dont have mourning doves here in europe I think lol

[fast knoll]

if anyone wants to trade instas mine is https://www.instagram.com/achenbirding

[remote remnant]

i have a total of 5 birds on my page🔥 https://www.instagram.com/shawn07290618/

should shoot more birbs

[dark minnow]

I just followed you

[fast knoll]

Yay followed back!

[dark minnow]

Yup saw that

Man those hummingbirds are insane

@fast knoll

[fast knoll]

im one away from 300

thank u!

[dark minnow]

Not anymore

Damn I’m 4 away from 600

[astral saffron]

https://www.instagram.com/cam.frames?igsh=MWVpMGs0ZWo1cTFkMg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

we could all use a little love and support

[dark minnow]

https://www.instagram.com/foolery___?igsh=MTZlNngxOGFwY2lsdA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

Here’s mine if y’all want

[remote remnant]

im only 99687 away from 100k

[finite flower]

ill drop mine in cuz i can

wong.shoots

[gilded yarrow]

https://www.instagram.com/alex.kph

Theres mine lol

[shut hazel]

https://www.instagram.com/theepicbirb?igsh=ZTJmaDcya2wzZGwx

me

[split path]

https://www.instagram.com/martin.nerodil?igsh=MTNlZmwxMmE4cXdzcA==
Here's mine.

[grizzled nebula]

I Have 0 instagram followers!

[wide flint]

https://www.instagram.com/frame.stork/

joining the hype train

[grizzled nebula]

i really need to start a wildlife instagram

just cba putting all my good pictures atm

[magic crown]

https://www.instagram.com/juletek13
Insta train coming right up

[wide flint]

Yeah I'm a very infrequent poster as well

I remember I have that insta acc like every 2 months and then do a post and instantly forget lolol

[astral saffron]

Same but I have made it a goal to try and share something once a week

[finite flower]

i kinda post alot, then forget, then post alot

but my goal now is to share smth weekly

[green canyon]

https://www.instagram.com/goose._photography?

[gilded yarrow]

Same lmao

[grizzled nebula]

Gonna try to see the kingfisher

Hopefully it doesnt rain

Gonna wait for nice weather for the lake

[tough hull]

Nice i followed you

Tbh I should start an account dedicated only to photography

Like wildlife

[magic crown]

first exhibit of 2026 !

(yeah it's in french you have to translate it lol)

[grizzled nebula]

Some old cunt came to where i was just to go back instantly

Scared all the birds away

[wide flint]

Oui oui, baguette

[grizzled nebula]

😡

[dusty fog]

wet sand is the worst

[grizzled nebula]

Fucking quicksand

If i didnt react quick my entire leg wouldve gone in

[left brook]

this the body of water?

[grizzled nebula]

No, im at the beach

And its raining

Great

[shut hazel]

Same here

I got loads of stuff i wanna post

But im so damn lazy

[grizzled nebula]

I like and hate rain

[magic crown]

why you put a hide on the camera ?

[grizzled nebula]

Cause its cool

[magic crown]

bc of the sand ?

[grizzled nebula]

Rain + sand

[magic crown]

you lens is not weather sealed ?

[grizzled nebula]

Ended up putting it over the screen too

[grizzled nebula]

After yesterday id rather protect it icl

Well ducks are gone

Imma start moving

Gonna try finding a new area around here

[green canyon]

also big white lens

its kind of obvious to birds

[magic crown]

not really actually they don't really care about color

[green canyon]

if youre sneaking up on one i feel like it would be better to not be glowing

[magic crown]

yeah but as i see when i hide they don't really care about the color but sure it's still better to have a lens coat to hide+prevent water/sand damage

[grizzled nebula]

Lovely weather

[green canyon]

still sunny for me until Tuesday

sad weather from Tuesday onwards

[grizzled nebula]

Magpies!

[fast knoll]

Ok just followed all of u guys

[green canyon]

Any idea on how to get more views
just post more?

[fast knoll]

I have no clue lol insta is cooked

[green canyon]

i get 15 if im lucky

tiktok is a lot more predictable

15 likes not views

like 50-100 views

[fast knoll]

I think it’s easier if u have a niche for ur account like one type of photography only

[green canyon]

i do astro, aircraft and wildlife

[fast knoll]

I can get decent views on TikTok sometikes

[magic crown]

i stopped tiktok personally too much brainrot and stupid things

[grizzled nebula]

@scarlet tulip btw DXO PureRaw 6 is quite significantly better than PureRaw 5

[scarlet tulip]

How do, in detail terms?

[grizzled nebula]

better details, denoising itself is so so much better

there's almost no noise left with PureRaw 6

[scarlet tulip]

Excellent info, thanks

How do you find the quality of the detail versus 5? I notice it dies off a bit if i crop

[grizzled nebula]

quality of detail is better but it also takes a lot longer to denoise

2 or 3x longer

[scarlet tulip]

Noted

Will upgrade post computer upgrade then

[grizzled nebula]

i don't even know if the edits are good

have a headache rn

[scarlet tulip]

Ok these are good results

Thanks for the advice

[fast knoll]

btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNndZWkRU7I

this video tests dxo 5 vs 6

1:15

[green canyon]

im watching this rn lol

[fast knoll]

lmao

[green canyon]

i dont like how damn much he advertises his "next generation" masterclasses though

it gets to a point

[fast knoll]

yea bruh

every video

now he's also advertising this in person photography tour

[green canyon]

like 3x aswell

[green canyon]

i know that shit is a bajillion dollars already lol

[fast knoll]

his editing style is extremely bright sometimes

i do like bright images tho

[green canyon]

his profile picture is so peak

[grizzled nebula]

could land a plane on that forehead

[fast knoll]

Dude yea bro is balding insanely badly

Hat saves him

[sharp ether]

Funny you say that because I always think he looks like mentour pilot

[wide flint]

They're gonna stay on a private yacht in the Galapagos Islands, more like a gazillion dollars

[grizzled nebula]

or maybe he just has a huge brain

[tough hull]

No, he’s still alright

[tough hull]

True

[dreamy tinsel]

do birds not like to come out when its windy?

[wide flint]

They'll still come out, but will stay more sheltered from the wind

[grizzled nebula]

Theres black swans near me 👀

Rare in france

[magic crown]

Huge crop but still good

[dreamy tinsel]

i went out twice when it was windy and each time didn’t see a bird and they were just much quieter

[green canyon]

Any tips for photographing kingfishers?

@magic crown You've done so before right

[magic crown]

Yeah the hard part is your patience

How long you will wait before getting the shot ?

[gilded yarrow]

Hide

Look for his favorite fishing branch

[fast knoll]

camp out for hours lol

[green canyon]

i was planning for a maximum of 3 hours

maybe 4

sadly i dont have any camouflage like hides or blankets

But i know where to go

[wide flint]

Then make sure to position urself somewhat hidden by brushes or something else, they can be skiddish or distrusting of u sit out in the open

[green canyon]

I believe there's a lot of coverage where im going to be so ill try

there are barely any leaves right now though

[tough hull]

Hiding is optional

At least in my region

[gilded yarrow]

For kingfishers it isnt

[tough hull]

The ducks are the idiots

The ducks you need to hide

[gilded yarrow]

Its about kingfishers

[gilded yarrow]

Ohhh

LMAO

[tough hull]

Bro

[gilded yarrow]

Nah for good kingfisher photos you need a hide 99% of the time

[tough hull]

I go stand up to walk towards kingfisher 30m away from me and the ducks 100m away from me start freaking out and flying away

[gilded yarrow]

yes 30m

that doesnt get you a good photo

we talking about closer to 3m

[tough hull]

And then I got to 20m and kingfisher I thought I scared him but he splashes in the water next second and comes up with a fish

[tough hull]

Oh

Yeah well impossible for me

I would need to get in the 5m deep water

Closest I can get is like 5-10m to get them from the front

[magic crown]

This is what you can do hidden

About 4 meters away

[tough hull]

If it’s possible at your spot

But if you got one kingfisher at 3km of creek you are cooked

Not everyone has a place with many kingfishers

[magic crown]

Kingfishers mostly hunt close to the ground (more branches)

[green canyon]

The place where i will go has tons of spottings every year

and direct water access

[tough hull]

😭

Mine had zero

[green canyon]

Surprisingly i saw one pass by my local lake on my way to school a couple days ago
ive never seen one there

[tough hull]

My city where I see more usually still had like almost none

[tough hull]

Oh my god

My city’s life list

Zero kingfishers

I see kingfishers ther like very often flying

They are like fighter jets in a valley lol

[grizzled nebula]

imagine having to be patient to see a kingfisher

started putting up some perches for better pics

hopefully he'll start using them soon

she*

[magic crown]

He'a very curious bird he can try it just after putting it

[grizzled nebula]

i've seen both the male and the female

male

haven't seen them for the past 2 days cause of the wind and rain

they hunt in the deeper parts of the river in these conditions and i just can't get a pic of them from further down the river

[green canyon]

Was thinking about doing that

[green canyon]

I heard that the newer it is the better since its a spot where they usually cant fish

[grizzled nebula]

i still cant believe a kingfisher let me get close to touching distance from it

[tough hull]

lol

[green canyon]

@magic crown i have some (sadly) blue camping chairs, do you think the colour would pose an issue?

for kingfishers

[dark ermine]

guess I caught this bluejay blinking, snake eye.

vs

[remote remnant]

el borb

[left brook]

u printed da soft photo

[grizzled nebula]

Found the black swan but idk how yo get close to it

[tough hull]

Tell me whyyy

The closest seagulls are around 150km away

And they are rare as heck

[green canyon]

I hear kingfishers

[grizzled nebula]

Lol i have hundreds around my house

I have 3 or 4 constantly flying around

Decided to leave before it start raining badly

Couldnt get close to the black swan cause the bridge to the area its at was broken by a flood in 2021 and never rebuilt

Did get some normal swans tho

[tough hull]

Really?

How far from the ocean do you live?

[grizzled nebula]

2 mins

[tough hull]

Yeah hours for me

[grizzled nebula]

But i see some everywhere really

[tough hull]

The are hella rare especially if you live on the corner of tha region

My region has no gulls on its life list

And so every surrounding area

[grizzled nebula]

I live here

Ez pz

Didnt get a pic but there we loads

[tough hull]

Oh bruh

Well apparently there are sightings close to me

But the ton of sightings are mostly months old

And on th Danube

And I live 30km from there

Oh man I hate eBird

[grizzled nebula]

I really wanna go back to this place i went to today

Hopefully ill be able to get good pics of the black swan

[tough hull]

Two five days ago my bird of the day was a red kite, I saw my first of this year yesterday. Three days ago it was ruddy shelduck and I saw my first of the year two days ago. I see white wagtails everywhere at my home. Guess where I was yesterday when it was my bird of the day

[tough hull]

Yeah

Never seen one

I have seen one wild flamingo in Germany though

[grizzled nebula]

They are rare

They are native to australia but some can escape captivity etc

[tough hull]

Yeah

I just saw one red kite and two common buzzards circling each other

[green canyon]

ive seen a kingfisher twice now but i was walking around, now i dont know where he went

should i build a perch?

[wide flint]

You could, but I'd try to observe the area first and see if it's an actual hunting spot. Could also just be an area it flies through to get from hunting spot to hunting spot, not much use in putting up a perch then

[tough hull]

What is that

Captain gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, European herring gull or yellow legged gull?

They all look almost the same

[charred holly]

Meanwhile, I cannot go outside a single day without spotting several of them

I barely take the time to aim my camera at them nowadays lol

Mediterranean gulls are sooo rare even though I live in the place named after them

This was the only time I managed to get one, and it was the first wild bird I ever got with my camera

[green canyon]

ended up being 6.5h

[dark ermine]

captured a story

[charred holly]

"Why am I even outside? It is late, weather is terrible, there is neither birds or light... oh wait!"

You can always count on ducks

6400 iso is tough though... had to handhold 1/60s at ~500mm

[arctic siren]

meme

[spice silo]

100x ai slop phone zoom

[grizzled nebula]

this might be the weirdest phone processing i've ever seen

[spice silo]

Pixel 10 pro

Xl

[spice silo]

At 100x

[grizzled nebula]

🔥

phone quality so good

[spice silo]

These are the non ai

[grizzled nebula]

Camera image in comparison

[spice silo]

Loading...

[grizzled nebula]

uploaded from phone so IQ not high but still

[spice silo]

Non ai versions

[spice silo]

Yea, but ngl at 5-10x phone looks ok

[grizzled nebula]

meh

Phone

camera

[tough hull]

BuT yOu CaNt CoMpArE a PoCkEt sIzEd PhOnE tO a GiAnT cAmErA

My camera is as a matter of facts pocket sized if you throw one of those pancake lenses on

And if I remove the strap

[charred holly]

He doesn't have a 60x zoom on his phone...

[tough hull]

Hahahahaha

[shut hazel]

pancake lens 800mm 1.8 when

[tough hull]

I mean a phone doesn’t have that

So pancake lens on camera better than phone

[scarlet tulip]

thanks window screen

[astral saffron]

My friend asked how my times zoom my telephoto prime was

[grizzled nebula]

Say 30x

[astral saffron]

Only 30x!?!? What a waste of money. I should buy this so I get better pictures

[grizzled nebula]

I have one of these phone lenses

I should try 100x through it just for fun

[grizzled nebula]

30x zoom with a 22x lens on it lol

Atleast the macro lens is alright

[charred holly]

I have a 16-300mm lens, so technically 19x zoom

It is surprisingly alright

[tough hull]

@grizzled nebula did you get the black swan?

[grizzled nebula]

My bike has a puncture

Raining rn too

Saw a buzzard, black redstart and some white geese, heard woodpeckers from every angle but 0 pics

Got chased by a guard dog so that’s why I didn’t get a pic of the geese

[gilded yarrow]

Bro the lake cursed you or something frfr

[gilded yarrow]

💀 💀 💀

Worlds unluckiest wildlife photographer

thats like worse than me only getting my 1st kingfisher photo after almost 40 hours

[grizzled nebula]

I still havent gone to it

[magic crown]

bro have a luck of a fucking bench

[fast knoll]

i chceked and the 5x zoom in phone is 120mm

so i just tell ppl my 500mm is about 4x the zoom of a 5x phone camera

[fast knoll]

LOL

you're actually cursed wtf

[magic crown]

normal wide angle is aprox 24mm on phone so it's 1x zoom
so 600mm is 25x zoom

[fast knoll]

yea i just use 5x as reference because ppl already think that's pretty zoomed in lol

[grizzled nebula]

Great pic

(White goose)

[tough hull]

Can you See the Vision

Hahaha

I see the goose

[grizzled nebula]

gonna try finding some swans tomorrow

i know there's some very close to where i live

2 mins away

gonna go back to the river where i got chased by a big dog

[tough hull]

Big dogg

Lol

[grizzled nebula]

WTF THERE'S A BLACK SWAN 1 MIN AWAY FROM ME

but it's in a private domain

i'll ask the security person if he can let me in

[grizzled nebula]

should be easy to get a good pic of it

really hope i can get in

[fast knoll]

Lmao

[charred holly]

You have a secret spy satellite to spot birds from the sky?

[fast knoll]

With your luck he’s gonna kill u then smash ur lens on the ground

[grizzled nebula]

i know people that live there anyway

[tough hull]

In Europe this don’t happen

[magic crown]

yeah they will tax you

[grizzled nebula]

t'as deja vu des cygnes noirs?

[magic crown]

nope

[grizzled nebula]

y'en a arles apparemment

moi j'en ai un juste a coté hehe

1 minute de chez moi

[magic crown]

si on joue a ça je t'écrase très rapidement

[grizzled nebula]

laisse moi flex un peut

J'ai besoin de retourner a la plaine des maures

y'a tellement de rapaces

[magic crown]

est ce que toi t'as des flamants ? est ce que t'as des grand duc ? est ce que t'as des perruches ? est ce que t'as des spatules ?
est ce que t'as des guêpier ?
est ce que t'as des milans ?
est ce que t'as des rolliers ?

y'en a un beau paquet encore

[grizzled nebula]

y'a des Huppe fasciées aussi

[grizzled nebula]

oui

[magic crown]

ici aussi

[grizzled nebula]

pire flex au monde mdr

[magic crown]

1v10 mdrr

[grizzled nebula]

j'ai plus de choses que tu penses ici 😉

pue la merde quand meme

[magic crown]

ouais bon vu la chance que t'as

[grizzled nebula]

j'aurai bien aimé vivre en camargue

[magic crown]

je vis a coté de tout

[magic crown]

et en dernier est ce que t'as des fou de bassan ?

[grizzled nebula]

apparemment y'en a qui passent par ici mais j'en ai pas encore vu

y'en a la croix valmer

je vais essayer d'aller voir quand le soleil revient

[magic crown]

pour y être allé (avec la pire météo en plus) c'est vraiment bien les fous

[grizzled nebula]

y'a pleins de Loriots d'Europe a la pleine de maures

[magic crown]

ici c'est le bordel en été y'en a de partout

[grizzled nebula]

c'est beau comme oiseau

[magic crown]

ouais mais préfère le guépier

[grizzled nebula]

j'ai hate qu'ils arrivent

going to look for a new kingfisher tomorrow

imma go find a way to go along the river without being chased by a big ass dog

big day tomorrow even tho it's gonna rain

[gilded gale]

Thoughts on this bright exposure?

[spring vault]

what the duck doin

[gilded gale]

stretching his gular pouch i assume?

I believe they do it to keep it flexible

[left brook]

i like

oh wow the seagulls in front too

very nice

[light valley]

I like bright edits but the highlights lost a lot of detail.

[gilded gale]

Yeah, I noticed that too ofc, wasnt sure how much of a balance i wanted to strike

It was misty and gross out so theres a decent bit of detail loss even at iso 200

[charred holly]

If you lower white point by a lot, it reveals tons of feather details that are otherwise lost

I would use a luminance mask on the birds and try to recover as much as possible while keeping the scenery intact

[gilded gale]

I kindof like how it worked out on this one, not so much on the other. It felt really flattened out, like it was making everything a flat grey almost?

ty for the luminance mask tip though!

[dark ermine]

freaking nailed these shots today
yellow rumped warbler

[half yacht]

If only I had had my camera

That's a bird btw*

W phone quality

[charred holly]

A new firmware dropped today for the Sony 200-600 : https://www.sony.fr/electronics/support/lenses-e-mount-lenses/sel200600g/downloads

Improves image stabilization
Improves operational stability

Not too sure if this changes much, @magic crown you might be interested

[grizzled nebula]

gotta wait until 1pm to go out

cause it's raining too much rn

[grizzled nebula]

female sardinian warbler

[gilded yarrow]

your rain arrived in germany now lmao

thunder too

1st time this year

[grizzled nebula]

Not edited yet

[astral saffron]

Chicken

[dark minnow]

Fancy land ducks

[magic crown]

nugget birb

[tough hull]

As a matter of facts these are the veggie whatever nuggets lol

No birds were harmed

Directly

[green canyon]

faahhhhh

i got mine after like 3

[green canyon]

i need this too thanks

[green canyon]

putain

[grizzled nebula]

Coq

[charred holly]

Nice gallinaceous

(second image has overblown highlights)

...or maybe not, it looks better on my phone

[shut hazel]

future nugget

[charred holly]

Damn, my PC screen sucks so much

[magic crown]

it is

it's burned on my calibrated screen

it's not that big but still

[grizzled nebula]

my screen is shite

[magic crown]

you really need a calibrated one

[grizzled nebula]

like i need to get a new one but i've been spending everything on gear lol

imma start sending it to my phone to check everytime i finish an edit

[magic crown]

try using icc profile

it's better than nothing

[charred holly]

I have a cheap ultrawide gaming monitor

Don't think it covers 100% of any color space lol

[scarlet tulip]

nice and close to a horned grebe

[wide flint]

not low enough

[scarlet tulip]

Getting lower at this site means a broken leg

Nice tall seawall

[dusty fog]

go swimming

[scarlet tulip]

Then the grebe leaves lol

“Wow what a dumbass he can’t even fly”

[wide flint]

just put ur cam on a tripod and dangle it over the edge and remote shutter

ezpz

[dusty fog]

mount camera to fpv drone

[charred holly]

Mounting a four figures device to a drone...

[gilded yarrow]

I mean the drone can be just as expensive

[charred holly]

I wonder if a long lens could even fit on a drone

Flying 600 f4 anyone?

[gilded yarrow]

prolly not

[grizzled nebula]

Sun was out 10 mins ago

[left brook]

u unlucky asl 😭

[magic crown]

[scarlet tulip]

I honestly don’t mind high shots like this when the water is reflective

Not as good as water level but you can get some fun compositions on calm water

[grizzled nebula]

started flooding lmao

rain has calmed down tho

[grizzled nebula]

sun is back out lmao

[charred holly]

High shots can be fun indeed

[scarlet tulip]

Reflect-a-duck

[tough hull]

Same in Germany

[grizzled nebula]

better than before?

[grizzled nebula]

Waiting for kestrels

[tough hull]

600mm f4 that big?

Man I never see these things irl

[grizzled nebula]

This is one of the smaller ones btw

didn't see any kestrels

saw a woodpecker but an helicopter scared it away

[grizzled nebula]

Im cursed

[tough hull]

😔

[grizzled nebula]

should be going to the lake tomorrow if everything goes to plan tho!

[fast knoll]

😭

u will never catch a break

[grizzled nebula]

nah

i actually cba rn

i can't do fuck all around my house

feather detail blown out

need to lower highlights

now that i've changed settings of my screen to match what it's actually meant to look like i see that most of my pics are overexposed

atleast it won't be an issue anymore

[analog kindle]

Well I missed last months check in, I guess but heres some recent stuff haha

[grizzled nebula]

nice

[wise trench]

Number 7 is really cool

[gilded yarrow]

Sick

[left brook]

how u be transporting it

[grizzled nebula]

bag

[left brook]

which

[grizzled nebula]

Thinktank Backlight 26L

barely fits

can only put camera and 600

[left brook]

mao

lmao

send pic with it

[grizzled nebula]

https://tenor.com/view/mao-gif-25413392

[grizzled nebula]

not rn

tomorrow morning

almost 1AM rn

[left brook]

aigh

[grizzled nebula]

well

i have this video

[left brook]

so u can fit more

why not front element down

[grizzled nebula]

cause it doesn't close

[grizzled nebula]

camera isn't in the bag

i removed the stuff on the right to fit it

[left brook]

nah u can fit more

[grizzled nebula]

no i cannot

[left brook]

isnt the top rounded

how tf the reverse orientation no work

the bottom is tighter than the top?

[grizzled nebula]

cause the bag is not deep enough

[left brook]

the top is deeper than the bottom

[grizzled nebula]

i have a small bump at the top

[grizzled nebula]

no

but the back is flexible at the top

well the "door"

idk how to explain it correctly

[left brook]

skul

[grizzled nebula]

Road to the lake is a death trap

Not going there

Nvm just google maps being dumb and sending me on a very dangerous road when theres another one thats very safe

[grizzled nebula]

i'm using waze next time

[grizzled nebula]

since i bought the 600 i've literally had 0 luck

[green canyon]

sell it

buy the 14k one

More kingfishers on sunday this week
This time at 1c instead of 15c

[grizzled nebula]

i didn't see the kingfisher today

i'm sad

[grizzled nebula]

i better not see that huge fookin dog when i go back to that river later

[green canyon]

fookin

dont even joke lad

[spring vault]

innit

[grizzled nebula]

Egret

Making itself easy to photograph

Breh

[green canyon]

This looks a lot like the kingfisher location

is it

[grizzled nebula]

It is

[grizzled nebula]

no good picture again today

can't even go to that place i know i'll find some cause it'll be flooded atm

[tender galleon]

willow tit ❤️

[magic crown]

that pose is killing me he's so fluffy

[tough hull]

2m away from long tailed tit autofocus said oh what a beautiful stick even though you set bird AF

[grizzled nebula]

average sony AF

i've seen some reviews saying sony sometimes gets distracted by other branches etc

[tough hull]

True

[grizzled nebula]

even tho all cameras do that sony seems to be doing it a bit more

[tough hull]

Idk why people are say it’s so good

It keeps on messing up

[grizzled nebula]

it's really good and probably the best for humans but for wildlife i think it's the worst between sony, nikon and canon

canon AF 🔥

(screenshot)

[tough hull]

Yeah

[grizzled nebula]

BRUH

[tough hull]

Here the a7 IV would have said what beautiful grass in the background

[grizzled nebula]

dxo 6 is so broken

[tough hull]

Which

Pure raw

Photolab

[grizzled nebula]

i need to close the app in the task manager and re open for it to work

[grizzled nebula]

pure raw

[tough hull]

K

[grizzled nebula]

the denoising is better than 5 but yh that startup issue is annoying

[tough hull]

Literally the only way that I got images like this to be focused is centered af

[tough hull]

Yeah

[grizzled nebula]

tbf i use that most the time

that's what u should use for small birds

[tough hull]

Centered

[grizzled nebula]

which crop?

[magic crown]

first one

[tough hull]

Tbh do another one in the middle

[magic crown]

it's good to have a good autofocus but if you don't know how to use it that's nothing

[grizzled nebula]

[tough hull]

Bro my bird af is just gambling

[grizzled nebula]

i have a headache rn

i hate life

[tough hull]

Most of the time it doesn’t work

[tough hull]

Why

[grizzled nebula]

cause i have a headache

[tough hull]

Bruh

Get well soon

[magic crown]

you can't just put large+subject auto af and let's the thing work for you (except for very high end camera) you need to set settings about it
like spot af for bird wich turn to continuous af on eye for example

[grizzled nebula]

and idk why tf birds are so diffiult to find atm

[tough hull]

Bro I did that 😭

[green canyon]

atleast you have bird af

[magic crown]

yeah x)

most don't

[tough hull]

Well yet I have tried it on multiple birds and it only worked on close range for ducks

[magic crown]

what camera you have ?

[grizzled nebula]

[grizzled nebula]

[magic crown]

don't having bird af is not that bad

[magic crown]

bro is still wrong

[green canyon]

stop laughing 😭

[magic crown]

it's eric

[tough hull]

…

[magic crown]

@tough hull the a7iv don't even have AI chip that's maybe why sometime your focus is not on it

[tough hull]

Yeah

I wanna get a7 V so bad

But I need super telephoto too

My 300mm ain’t enough

[magic crown]

me with my a6400

[tough hull]

At least you got 900mm of zoom bro

[grizzled nebula]

not laughing at u, laughing at jule

[green canyon]

i have the a6400 without a viewfinder

[tough hull]

If you got light your setup is superior

[grizzled nebula]

Jul Tek

[magic crown]

there's also this if the lens don't focus properly then nothing will lead properly

[tough hull]

It’s pretty good ngl

[green canyon]

@tough hull buy the 200-600 you wont regret it

[magic crown]

no bird af but insane lens that compensate wall weakness

[tough hull]

I know

[tough hull]

No sticks to distract AF

[magic crown]

actually there is (magic of post prod)

[tough hull]

😭

I tried MF on long tailed but it flew away so fast

[magic crown]

sometime you just need too lead the camera and not let the camera doing everything

[green canyon]

just get closer

[tough hull]

Bro I was

2m

My distance

[magic crown]

MOST OVERRATED THING I HEARD EVERY FUCKING TIME

[green canyon]

but its true most of the time

[tough hull]

Minimum focus is 1m

[tough hull]

Yeah

[magic crown]

close enough ?

or you want the atom ?

[green canyon]

i do

[magic crown]

https://tenor.com/view/table-mess-lmao-laugh-gif-5126644939264248578

blud want the quark at this point

[green canyon]

less

[tough hull]

Bruh

[grizzled nebula]

yh but it's not wild so not fair

[tough hull]

Tbh for that I would just put 2m of extension tubes on a telescope

[grizzled nebula]

https://tenor.com/view/game-of-thrones-got-shame-nun-gif-4969023

[magic crown]

especially with you
never saw someone with such a bad luck

bro can do every spot and he will find nothing that's crazy the nature is ragebating you

[grizzled nebula]

i'm gonna move out

fuck this place

[magic crown]

come to Camargue

[tough hull]

I recently got like within 10-15m of a flying red kite

[grizzled nebula]

that's what i want to do

[magic crown]

just got a fox 30cm of me last week
my luck is undefeatable

[grizzled nebula]

maybe in the near future

[grizzled nebula]

i mean ur in the biggest wildlife hotspot in france

[magic crown]

[green canyon]

how should i crop this

havent edited yet

[magic crown]

not really for fox

but for birds yeah

i've never seen in whole france such a number of species that large and close

[grizzled nebula]

went back to the river where i was chased by the dog last time and it turns out it's a private property

[magic crown]

400+ species here that's wild af

that's almost the half of the wholes species present in france

[grizzled nebula]

tit

[green canyon]

wtf
camargue is like a gaint nature reserve

[tough hull]

Meanwhile my 30km are has 87species and narrow it down to 10km and it’s 47

Birds

[grizzled nebula]

it is

[magic crown]

and it's just camargue now search the region Bouches-du-Rhones this is my playing area

[green canyon]

p2w

[grizzled nebula]

i'm 3h away

[green canyon]

book an airbnb

[magic crown]

that's hurt

[grizzled nebula]

tiny camargue 30 mins away from me lol

[green canyon]

how do i check how many species exist in my area

[grizzled nebula]

it's what i do when i go there

[magic crown]

that's Bouches-du-Rhônes

[green canyon]

100% map exploration

[tough hull]

Btw you find 20 species 90% of the year only in one part of the 30km are and that’s a dam where there are seagull species ten million geese whatever

[grizzled nebula]

there's so much stuff in camargue it's actually crazy

[magic crown]

there's everything a birder need
beach, mountains, forests, plains, swamps, rivers, large ponds
it's a goated place

[green canyon]

might have to book a trip one day

[magic crown]

do it you def wont regret it

we even have northen gannets it's fucking broken

[grizzled nebula]

barely 1% of what's there

(some of these were experimental so don't talk about the possible shitty edits)

[green canyon]

is that the meep bird

[magic crown]

there's a LOT of thing to do in camargue

[magic crown]

nope but same subspecies if i remember

[green canyon]

looks very similar

i was already thinking, how could an american woodcock be in france

[grizzled nebula]

i need to go back asap

[green canyon]

atleast i have a lot of airshows in my region

[magic crown]

metal birb

[green canyon]

exactly