Bird Photography

[undone slate]

for a tripod

[grizzled nebula]

only 😭

[glossy sage]

Both are great cameras. Canon users will say Canon. Nikon users will say Nikon lol

[undone slate]

yeah but @tough hull is a nikon user?

[grizzled nebula]

and i only got the 2 for 240 Euros

[grizzled nebula]

no

he was

R6II has raw pre cap

even nikon's flagship doesn't have it lol

[glossy sage]

meh

[grizzled nebula]

[spring vault]

r8 has raw precap

its the canon old precap tho u need the software to unpack files

and gotta wait forever for the buffer to clear each time

[glossy sage]

same with r6 ii

I think its meh

[grizzled nebula]

u can do it in camera aswell

it's quite easy tbf

u just select the frames u want and extract

[spring vault]

reviews says canon raw precap isnt rly worth using on anything except r5ii and r1 cos its so clunky

but in a pinch at least u got it

[glossy sage]

I get better results with a high drive mode and just holding shutter

[grizzled nebula]

raw precap got me this nice shot

ik it's nothing special but yh it can be nice

[spring vault]

can see rolling shutter smh need a9iii

[grizzled nebula]

my shutter speed was too slow 💔

[glossy sage]

Or to not use pre-cap and just hold shutter with efcs heh

[spring vault]

yea if ur buffer is big enough

[glossy sage]

[grizzled nebula]

difficult to know when a bird is gonna take off sometimes

[glossy sage]

True

I just hold mine down, I can take like 10 seconds worth of photos before having to wait 2 seconds for it to clear and go again.
And your SD card is 50MB/s faster than mine

[spring vault]

nikon ppl unironically saying they dont need raw precap just hold down the shutter 100% of the time

[grizzled nebula]

medium to big birds are super easy but small ones like tits are very unpredictable

[grizzled nebula]

and then have 10000 files cause they don't know when it's gonna take off

i like how the buffer works on nikon tho tbh

[glossy sage]

I'd rather cull than have my favorite photo have rolling shutter

[grizzled nebula]

wish canon did the same where it would just lower FPS instead of stopping

[spring vault]

sony also just lowers fps

[grizzled nebula]

ik

[spring vault]

idk why rf is like that cos theres empty space why doesnt it use it

[grizzled nebula]

we need R5III already

with no full stop buffer

[spring vault]

canon r2

[grizzled nebula]

with the Z9II nikon could do something insane

[spring vault]

im so excited

all z9 rly needs is 30fps and precap and change nothing else but if they cook itll be cool

120fps and precap

[grizzled nebula]

60mp

[glossy sage]

Sounds expensive

[grizzled nebula]

depending how good the Nikon Z9II is there could be a reason for a switch

also depends how canon respond

[spring vault]

I prolly should wait for z8ii but I decided a7r6 is peak so im gettin that

[undone slate]

so i buy z6 iii or what

HELP

also canon lenses are more expensive

so idk what to do

help

[fast knoll]

200-800 is like $1800

Not that bad

For good reach

I had a dream that I had a 200-800 and someone stepped on it

[spring vault]

new canon leak

[fast knoll]

Emergency 100-400

[remote remnant]

200-80

[undone slate]

💀

[undone slate]

only?

maybe i should get that one

what do u think?

[undone slate]

u have that one?

[fast knoll]

No I have 100-500

[undone slate]

price?

[naive fiber]

2000 ish

[undone slate]

what's ish

oh ok

2k?

that's a lot for a lense

i mean

[fast knoll]

Yeah 2000 is a good price for it

[fast knoll]

Wildlife photography is an expensive hobby

I’m trying to make some of that money back doing grad photos lol

[undone slate]

and why the 200-800 is less expensive?

[glossy sage]

less good

[fast knoll]

It’s not an L lens

Slightly less sharp

Wors build quality prob

It’s still great

Kinda bulky tho

[spring vault]

100-500 is a lot sharper but doesnt go to 800 and a tc on 100-500 isnt sharper anymore

[tough hull]

Yeah well canon lenses may be more expensive on the lower end but at the higher end I feel like they have a better lens selection than Nikon and Sony. So personally as a trade off I chose Sony because they got good stuff at the lower end and better cams for that price range than Nikon. That’s my opinion though

[tough hull]

Well D3100

With 18-105

[undone slate]

only?

[tough hull]

Yes

[undone slate]

but

that's nothing

for brids

birds

[tough hull]

Yes

[undone slate]

Strange

[tough hull]

I don’t really use it anymore

I shoot basically Sony only

[naive fiber]

It's 1.5x crop

[tough hull]

But my Nikon is still nice

[tough hull]

Still only 157

[naive fiber]

So 157

Yeah still not a lot

[queen junco]

hahaha this bird is everywhere

sick

[undone slate]

Ok so i'm gonna buy the r6 ii instead of the z6 iii then?

[tough hull]

I learnt the basics on That camera though

[undone slate]

idk what to do honestly

[naive fiber]

200mm on my Nikon isn't too much either but I get the benefit of more crop

[tough hull]

Alright how much money you got for cams

Without a budget we can’t really give advice

[undone slate]

I mean

in 1 year probably 3k

[tough hull]

Well… in one year new cameras may come out and you will have a better used market for the cameras that are new right now

And right now you can look which lenses you would like

So don’t look for cameras

Look for lenses first

If you see a brand with lenses you like, you will take a look at their best camera you can afford for your budget and then you can see wether you wanna get it

[naive fiber]

Yeah lens over camera always

[tough hull]

That’s is probably the best approach

[naive fiber]

To an extent

[tough hull]

Yeah

[naive fiber]

Yeah doesn't make the most sense if you were looking at a 600mm and an m43

[tough hull]

I mean it’s my kinda mistake I looked for cameras first

But I wasn’t into wildlife when I looked into it

[undone slate]

yeah, i like the nikon's 180-600mm

[tough hull]

Don’t look onto one lens, look at the whole selection

Nikon and Sony prolly have the best low budget Astro stuff

[undone slate]

I'm saying I like it to be 600mm or 500mm at its maximum.

[tough hull]

Yeah

[undone slate]

idk if there is a big difference betweeen 600mm and 500mm

can someone tell me

[tough hull]

But I mean canon has got two cheap 800mm lenses

[tough hull]

No

I SHOWED YOU yesterday

#1041487027255914566 message

[undone slate]

yeah i know

but

only that?

[naive fiber]

yes

[undone slate]

that's kinda strange idk

[naive fiber]

really isnt

[undone slate]

On my camera there is a difference between 600mm and 720mm

[tough hull]

@magic crown how do you explain the weird background

Like not weird

[naive fiber]

cloud

probably

[tough hull]

But like dark

[magic crown]

the background is mostly water

[naive fiber]

close enough

[tough hull]

Damn

[magic crown]

desaturated and played with darkness

[tough hull]

I thought it was like you just cut it out and put it infront of a gradient lol

Very good job then

[magic crown]

otherwise the background will look like this aprox

[undone slate]

water?

how water?

[naive fiber]

yknow

the stuff you drink

[magic crown]

I slightly adjusted the camera angle from above

[grizzled nebula]

I need to get some crow shots again

Or ravens

[undone slate]

🌊

[grizzled nebula]

I wanna go look for some birds of prey soon

Doubt ill have the time tomorrow

[shut hazel]

yesterday i saw a goose try to eat a duckling then all hell broke loose at the lake

goose gulp duckling

gosling start tweaking

Squirrel appears out of nowhere

other birds appear too

Lmao

[dark ermine]

i got photobombed at the lake yesterday - twice

[magic crown]

the duck concil

[tough hull]

Ight

[tough hull]

I like that more though

[dark ermine]

they were being so mean to the only muscovy there

[tough hull]

One for the meme, one for actual bird photography

[magic crown]

excactly

[tough hull]

lol

At school last year photographing reflections in a water droplet

[dark ermine]

that is awesome

[tough hull]

Yes lol

[undone slate]

wow

[tough hull]

Bro Saturday

I go see black woodpecker while in car

Then to my right a deer

[undone slate]

that was in a school?

[tough hull]

Infront a deer

[tough hull]

Yes

Last year

I am not in the photography club from school anymore now though

I’ve grown out of it

lol

Bye

[undone slate]

How can you bring a camera to school?

[glossy sage]

I took photos of some ugly ass vultures for you yesterday

[glossy sage]

You take camera, put it in ur backpack, go to school

[naive fiber]

bring it in

idfk what else to say

[undone slate]

is that legal in the school?

[naive fiber]

read the school rules

[undone slate]

how

[naive fiber]

or just dont tell anyone

fym how

[undone slate]

that's illegal

i can't

[naive fiber]

dude its not illegal

[undone slate]

do illegal things

[naive fiber]

do you know what illegal is

[undone slate]

waht

[naive fiber]

you arent breaking a law

if I talk in class im not breaking the law

[undone slate]

m

maybe

[naive fiber]

ok my vision of this guy gets a month younger every time I speak to him

[naive fiber]

fuck you mean maybe

[undone slate]

But at my school, bringing mobile phones is quite restricted.

[naive fiber]

😭

[undone slate]

º-º

[glossy sage]

They claimed 19 a long while ago

I am not a subscriber to this claim

[undone slate]

?

[naive fiber]

ok

its still not a law

worst youll get is it confiscated for the day

and get it back

[undone slate]

💀

I would kill my teacher if he did that to me

[dark ermine]

highschool?

[naive fiber]

do you not have multiple teachers

[undone slate]

yes

[undone slate]

yes

[naive fiber]

meh mine is similar unless you are in the week of gcses

[dark ermine]

that makes sense

[glossy sage]

Elementary I think...

[undone slate]

gcses

i'm learning new words

oh ok

[naive fiber]

the eso?

[undone slate]

yeah

that's from spain

[naive fiber]

yes same thing

ish

[grizzled nebula]

show

[grizzled nebula]

do u think ur in the US

[glossy sage]

🤮

[grizzled nebula]

nice

they look cool

[undone slate]

no

[undone slate]

Cute

❤️

[glossy sage]

some ugly birdos

[undone slate]

Man

that's

just

beautiful

[grizzled nebula]

they

look

cool

[undone slate]

they look nice

[glossy sage]

feo

[undone slate]

they're so cute

[grizzled nebula]

griffon vultures look nice

[spring vault]

I bet if u took a closer pic with a rly sharp lens and good background and good lighting it'd be fire

[undone slate]

So cute birds

[glossy sage]

be my guest

u gotta swim the gator infested lake to get closer

[spring vault]

I have this shirt

[undone slate]

So cool

[grizzled nebula]

how

[undone slate]

wdym by how

[grizzled nebula]

wdym by wdym by how

[undone slate]

😭

💀

[undone slate]

wdym by wdym by wdym by how?

[grizzled nebula]

ok you win

[undone slate]

thanks

i'm joking

[glossy sage]

LMAO

[river sandal]

still working on it. but is this too cropped in?

[naive fiber]

its a good crop but not a fan of the metal wire

[undone slate]

yes

maybe it lacks quality??

I think

[naive fiber]

quality is ok

[undone slate]

maybe

[grizzled nebula]

bro thought i wouldn't see him lol

[naive fiber]

looks noisy if anything

[naive fiber]

pretty cool shot

[undone slate]

I'm being a pain asking what bird it is, but Google Lens isn't working for me.

[naive fiber]

loving the pine theme you have been having

[undone slate]

😭

[naive fiber]

looks like a tit maybe

[grizzled nebula]

he was so small in the shot that the cam couldn't focus on his eye

lucky it was close to the branch

[grizzled nebula]

great tit

[grizzled nebula]

in my garden lol

[naive fiber]

thought so

threw me off with the neck

[grizzled nebula]

mimosa tree

[naive fiber]

its a good colour

[grizzled nebula]

it's a young tree but i think next winter it's gonna be able to get the mimosa

[naive fiber]

I got to go back to revision

no photography is killing me

[grizzled nebula]

they look like this around january

[naive fiber]

thats sick

[dark ermine]

I might move the crop lower so that sparrow is up and to the left a little more, then remove the fence in the corner

[grizzled nebula]

they only last about 1 month like that tho

basically every january

[naive fiber]

imagine yellow warblers in that

[naive fiber]

kinda like blossom

[naive fiber]

this is nice

[spring vault]

nice

good branch

[naive fiber]

I wish I had a garden for this

having a forest next to me isnt half bad though

[river sandal]

this is RAW. def some noise to it

[grizzled nebula]

gives beautiful oof backgrounds too

[naive fiber]

denoise that first then check your crops

[naive fiber]

autumn vibe

[grizzled nebula]

i'm so sad i had the wrong shutter speed

[spring vault]

sometimes I see a rly nice branch and I stand there and concentrate rly hard to will a bird to want to land on it and it usually works

[grizzled nebula]

never happens for me lol

[naive fiber]

I did that once and ended up scaring it off

[spring vault]

need to practice your spells

[naive fiber]

that branch was like only 1m away from me though it made sense

[grizzled nebula]

the trees have grown a bit since so i should be able to get some crazy pics in january

[naive fiber]

my grandparents have the best birding garden

there may even be kingfishers there

[river sandal]

i always forget to denoise

[grizzled nebula]

i hope the kingfisher comes back this winter aswell

[river sandal]

that should be like 1st step

[naive fiber]

sick spot

just need to set up a chair

ignore the cooked quality

[grizzled nebula]

imagine these shots with the mimosa

[naive fiber]

got compressed twice

[grizzled nebula]

i really really really hope this tree will be ready for next jan

[grizzled nebula]

damn that's nice

[naive fiber]

they live in the most bird populous area as well!

so cool

[daring imp]

Rare bird number 2 this month

[spring vault]

I got these rly red bushes in the fall

[naive fiber]

ducks arent really gettable as you cant get low enough which is annoying

wtf thats so cool

[grizzled nebula]

damn

that's great

[naive fiber]

so red?

what of the 3 birds is that

willow marsh or chickadee

[spring vault]

chickadee

[dark ermine]

chickadee

[grizzled nebula]

there's some really red flowers around rn but i still haven't seen a bird around them so far

[naive fiber]

I can never tell

willow and marsh populations decreased by 96% in my area

[grizzled nebula]

avocet 🔥

not my best pics but the only time i've manage to get decent pics of them

[daring imp]

Its this rare here. Im happy with any pics

[grizzled nebula]

i have a spot 40 mins away that has some

but the main hotspot is camargue which is about 3h away

[daring imp]

I drove 50km 😂

[grizzled nebula]

i have some 24km away

but they're not always there

[naive fiber]

is merlin being odd

I did not hear an owl

look at the time as well

[daring imp]

I have seen 2 rare birds this week im lucky asf. One with only 23 sightings and another 235. Didn't take long to find em for me either lol

[grizzled nebula]

what time is sunset for you?

[naive fiber]

20 50

[grizzled nebula]

either it called from it's nest or it's a mistake by merlin

[naive fiber]

I solidly doubt theres a nest

do I have the recording?

lets see

[grizzled nebula]

hope u saved it

[naive fiber]

ugh I forgot

im so gutted

[grizzled nebula]

damn

[daring imp]

Is the crop too much for 24mp? Really wanna save this shot. They were like 200m away

[charred holly]

Scenary looks quite uniform, I wouldn't crop much

[grizzled nebula]

yes unfortunately

that's about 4mp if i were to guess

[daring imp]

Can topaz fix it? I have ai photo. I only use ai to sharpen if i have to

[undone slate]

It looks like you used a slow shutter speed.

[grizzled nebula]

duh

i literally said it right under

[undone slate]

Does it belong to anyone?

[grizzled nebula]

no

it'll look ugly

[undone slate]

?

[undone slate]

oof

what's oof 😭

[undone slate]

I don't think I have time to read everything. 🙁

[grizzled nebula]

out of focus bruv

[grizzled nebula]

you do

speed up your brain

[daring imp]

Ur right. I can take pictures but my editing is ass still 😂

[undone slate]

How

i read a lot

º.º

[grizzled nebula]

stop trolling please

[naive fiber]

Yes it's my grandparents

[grizzled nebula]

ragebaiting*

[naive fiber]

Ykw though I should set up a feeder next time I go

[undone slate]

i don't like trolling

I only troll my dog

[trim fox]

just block him makes life better

[undone slate]

not anyone else

Sometimes when I'm going to feed him, I put a grain of food in his feeder and leave for 10 minutes.

º-º

[left brook]

like what fucking lenses

[left brook]

dude i havent been birding in forever

[undone slate]

Ok

[naive fiber]

100-500 ig

[left brook]

but i pulled an all nighter and it became morning and i heard a bunch of new birds

so many new ones merlin ID'd

[undone slate]

I really don't care what they do to me, if it bothers me I just move on and that's it.

[left brook]

are you eric

[undone slate]

If something really bothers you, tell me and I'll stop doing it; I'm just joking.

[undone slate]

no but he knows things about him

[naive fiber]

Brother that's why I said ig

[daring imp]

@grizzled nebula whats the most u can crop on r6mk2 images?

[naive fiber]

This just sounds like I stalk him

[left brook]

would it be any different from other 24mp cams

[grizzled nebula]

i don't usually crop under 5mp

[undone slate]

[daring imp]

Ur right. Mb

[river sandal]

alright. ive been playing with it. i feel like i gotta do something with the background though. any feedback?

[left brook]

i didnt mean it condescendingly, sorry

what cam do you have?

[grizzled nebula]

this is about 2mp iirc

[undone slate]

very bad photo

If I had another camera I could take a good cropped photo, but I can't even do that

[queen junco]

oof the hell is that

[undone slate]

what

wdym

[grizzled nebula]

goldfinch

[undone slate]

u don't know what bird is that

[left brook]

camera isnt the issue man

you gotta be closer

[undone slate]

@queen junco are u from america

[left brook]

hx60 is like what 720mm ffeq

[undone slate]

an alien

[queen junco]

It's fine I guess, just that this bird is hmm how to say "like a pigeon"

[queen junco]

yeah canada

[undone slate]

With the plants I put in my house, I hope to take a close-up photo of the goldfinch

[undone slate]

ok so u can't find them

[queen junco]

see

[queen junco]

yeah you need to be 1cm away for the bird

[undone slate]

?

[naive fiber]

No you wouldn't

That's a hell of a lot of cropping

[river sandal]

you mean like its a common bird?

[undone slate]

Do you think that if the photo was taken with an R6 II and I crop it, the photo would look good?

[naive fiber]

No

[queen junco]

yeah but I mean like chickadee are common but nice...

[naive fiber]

Yeah agree

Sparrows aren't the lookers tbh

There are common birds which do look better

[dark ermine]

all this shade at chipping sparrows

[naive fiber]

You just have to search a little harder

[left brook]

we both just said no dude

[left brook]

that photo he posted is at 720mm

and the bird is small as fuck still

[naive fiber]

720mm is a hell of a lot

[queen junco]

oof

[river sandal]

i mean, im not out here searching for some crazy birds. im taking pictures at work. lol

[naive fiber]

Goldfinches aren't even too small either

[naive fiber]

Yeah makes sense

[left brook]

like you would need 6000mm to fill that frame or something

[naive fiber]

Where are you at

[river sandal]

but advice to editing / compoisition shouldnt be bird specific

[queen junco]

not sure about the background tho

[left brook]

biggest issue is he's miles away from the bird 😭

[naive fiber]

How far out was this guy lmfao

[undone slate]

why not?

[naive fiber]

Because it's impossible

[undone slate]

Why?

[naive fiber]

It's not the Hubble telescope it's a camera

A consumer grade camera

[naive fiber]

Because

Oh man this is a lot of words

[left brook]

okay lets say you have a 600mm lens on an r62, the raw image will have the finch even smaller, cropping it would be like 200 pixels

[naive fiber]

Idk how I could explain this to you

[left brook]

the gear is not the issue man

you need to get closer

[naive fiber]

It's not even about the resolution it's about the sensor being too small

That's the main thing here

[undone slate]

but why the raw would make the bird smaller?

i'm getting confused

[naive fiber]

What

?????

[left brook]

your HX60 can shoot up to 720mm

ffeq

[undone slate]

Ohh ok

Ok ok

[left brook]

if you had an r62, and we assume you have a 600mm lens

that would make the bird smaller in the frame

when its already very small

[undone slate]

But I saw photos of aarvs that were giant crops, and in the original photo the bird looked small.

[naive fiber]

What photo

Is it the bee eater

[dark ermine]

I like it, if it were mine I might try removing the branch and leaves too but just because i'm a fan of...negative space i guess it's called - otherwise i'd say it's done

[naive fiber]

That looked like shit

It was like a 1mp crop

[queen junco]

I usually take photos of birds like 1-3m away

[left brook]

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[naive fiber]

No I meant aarvs' photo

[left brook]

not that small

[undone slate]

yes

[naive fiber]

Let me find it

[undone slate]

ok

[naive fiber]

Dude that looked like ass

[daring imp]

R62 bro

[undone slate]

meh

[grizzled nebula]

goldfinches are really cool

[undone slate]

I have to sleep cya

[undone slate]

so cool

[naive fiber]

Let me find it

[queen junco]

just a bird

[grizzled nebula]

which one is it?

[undone slate]

I'll take a close-up photo of them soon, trust mw

[grizzled nebula]

cool bird

[naive fiber]

The one that was a crazy crop that you tried upscaling with topaz

Afaik

[grizzled nebula]

oh lol

that wasn't topaz

just some random shitty website

[naive fiber]

Oh yeah I remember now

[queen junco]

[daring imp]

Still dont have an image of them. Only a shitty one when i started. They always fly away. Once i saw a big flock in a tree but when i got closer they flew 😂

[left brook]

aarvs where should i go birding

[dark ermine]

funny how diff that is from an american goldfinch

[queen junco]

oh a chicken bird, I don't like them 😡 red cardinal is also chicken

[queen junco]

ya

[daring imp]

How does the male look like? That looks like a female

[grizzled nebula]

[queen junco]

they change in the winter too idk

[grizzled nebula]

ours is better 🙂

[dark ermine]

more yellow

[grizzled nebula]

camargue lol

[queen junco]

they change in winter tho

[left brook]

ill b there in 2 days

see you aarvs

[grizzled nebula]

😭

why montpellier lol

[dark ermine]

thats ok

[left brook]

theres no airports in camargue 😭

[grizzled nebula]

you need to land in nice

or marseille

[naive fiber]

This one lol

[grizzled nebula]

and then either get the train or bus or taxi

[left brook]

aarvs editing stream when

[queen junco]

if you don't know, you might think it's another bird lol

[grizzled nebula]

i take the train from where i live to go to camargue

and then the bus

[queen junco]

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/the-goldfinches-at-my-feeder-are-starting-to-look-dull-and-patchy-whats-happening-to-them/

[grizzled nebula]

there's about 6-7h in public transport lol

[dark ermine]

def not where i live in AL, US lol

[grizzled nebula]

nevah

[queen junco]

bro do you even have snow?

[left brook]

im gonna wake up early this weekend and go bird

[dark ermine]

yes 🙂

[left brook]

find these cool spring birds ive never seen

[queen junco]

well there you go the winter form

[dark ermine]

or maybe it's just a female

[grizzled nebula]

imma go look for some birds of pray and try to see the bee eaters again this week

[dark ermine]

either way, I know it's a goldfinch lol

[queen junco]

trust

[dark ermine]

idk man i just bird here

[naive fiber]

I havent seen snow in 5 years wow

Rather settling snow

I saw snow fall last winter

[dark ermine]

to be fair we only see it every other year or so for a couple days, and when we do see it, southern society collapses until it warms up

if I never see another northern cardinal it will be too soon

[queen junco]

they are everywhere but always fly when you get too close

any tips?

[left brook]

how do you organize pics

damn

[dark ermine]

I shoot my backyard which makes it a lot easier, positioned the feeders so they have one main entry / landing branch. also my blind is my house lol. I put a cat door in my back window screen and shoot from that.

[dark ermine]

alpha codes mostly https://www.birdpop.org/pages/birdSpeciesCodes.php

[left brook]

fuck damn

960 northern cardinals lol

hmmm

how does tagging work in lrc

hmmm

idk if i should organize by bird or by outing

[naive fiber]

why not do both

easier to start from when you started photography though

pretty useful thanks for the idea

[dark ermine]

Well, to correct myself, I started with keywords and then just started using folders because I didn't keep up with it.
if you do it by keywords you don't really need separate folders since you can filter by keyword

maybe one day I'll sit down and fix it lol, will have to go through and tag 6k photos

i did start a BUTTS keyword recently since I can't stop taking photos of birds facing the wrong way

[daring imp]

i mean not too bad? i kinda like how the birds in the background are perfect lol

[tacit gazelle]

Man I lowk fucked everything up with 150 shutter speed

[grizzled nebula]

as long as you don't zoom in it's nice

[daring imp]

This is how far away i was lol

[grizzled nebula]

this is probs close to 1mp

[shut hazel]

O

[left brook]

do you just learn it

like the codes

[grizzled nebula]

smh managed to add a gradient on a full white background

[dark ermine]

yeah, it becomes second nature after awhile, most are just first two letters of each word. MODO = mourning dove, NOCA - northern Cardinal, TUTI - tufted titmouse etc

[fast knoll]

LEGO

my favorite one

[dark ermine]

I also carried that alpha coding onto my portfolio website (in my profile), so if I get a new bird I just search on there to find the right alpha code, but before that I would look it up from the database

[grizzled nebula]

idk if i prefer black and white or color

[left brook]

cool site

[dark ermine]

thank you 🙂 it is a wip

[glossy sage]

COLOR

[dark ermine]

right now it's too manual of a process and I haven't uploaded much. I just got done modifying it though to automatically pick up jpegs in my lightroom folders, so hopefully that will help

[left brook]

holy crop

just make it less cropped bro

[naive fiber]

Jay!

[grizzled nebula]

fixed the masking a bit

[grizzled nebula]

❗

[naive fiber]

Cool bird

Good shot though

[grizzled nebula]

lol

i don't like the edit tbh

too tired to edit now

[unborn frost]

Do you push backgrounds in post? iirc you have a fast lens but is that purely from the lens or is there a fair bit of editing done to increase separation

[grizzled nebula]

i don't often increase separation but that's just the sky

[unborn frost]

Ah fairs. I thought the grey zone was distant trees or something

[grizzled nebula]

i don't like the crop but you can see a car if i give more space on the left lol

[grizzled nebula]

just some gradient masks

this is pure 600 F/4 bokeh

840 5.6 actually

F/4

[daring imp]

@grizzled nebula my Tamron 150-600mm had really nice bokeh too. Cant tell the difference much from my 600f4. Puffin was tamron, jay 600 f4

[grizzled nebula]

Tbh it depends on the complexity of the background and the distance between you, the subject and the background

On the puffin shot the 600 wouldve had even creamier bokeh

[glossy sage]

^ what he said. F/4 will have better bokeh than 7.1
Sharpness is vastly different too

And slow AF

[daring imp]

True. So happy i got the 600 f4

[daring imp]

Yup

[glossy sage]

Im using the Tamron G2 150-600mm

Consistently overshooting or undershooting on the AF on moving targets

[daring imp]

I had that exact one

[glossy sage]

Its pretty nice overall for what u can find it for price wise

My biggest gripe is not sharpness but AF

[daring imp]

Yeah my af started having weird issues so i sold it.

[glossy sage]

U upgrade straight to 600 f/4?

[fast knoll]

dont sleep on f7.1

larger aperture certainly helps but it's also about choosing ur background wisely

[daring imp]

My first lens was canon 100-400, then 150-600, now 600 prime

[grizzled nebula]

7.1

[glossy sage]

Nice! My first is the tamron, when I get some stuff figured out I wanna move to the newer RF 100-500

[daring imp]

Got the 600mm f4 mark 1 IS for a good price here. 2800€

[grizzled nebula]

i was gonna get the mark 1

then i understood they had limitations so i just decided for a good deal on a 500 or 600 IS II

and got an insane deal for the 600 IS II

[daring imp]

I want the 100-500 or 200-800 for a walking lens. I fell today while walking with the 600 f4 but it landed softly on soft grass i was lucky af 😂 its so annoying to walk to places with 600 prime

[grizzled nebula]

for walking the 100-500 is really cause it's so light

and small

[glossy sage]

My camera and 24-105mm on my tripod fell down a waterfall's edge about 15feet (5ish meters) and nothing is broken at all

Idk how I lucked out that hard

It fell off the ledge in this photo

[grizzled nebula]

my camera and old sigma 24-105 fell with my tripod, the lens didn't survive but the camera had 0 damage

well i think i take this back

i always thought my adapter had an issue but looks like it may be the camera mount itself

there's a small separation at the bottom

@daring imp could u send a pic of the inside of ur R6II's mount pls

[daring imp]

What's up? Sleeping soon

[grizzled nebula]

bruh

[grizzled nebula]

is it like this on ur R6II?

[daring imp]

Checking tomorrow!

[grizzled nebula]

dw i think my mount is dented

that's why i'm getting lens communication issues

[fast knoll]

oh shit

r u getting an error

i got an err01 recently on my camera but it's cause my ef 24-70 ii ribbon finally died

i shoot wide open anyway tho so i just can't stop down anymore lol

[grizzled nebula]

Nope

I think its only IS and AF that disconnect

[fast knoll]

oh damn

how can u tell?

ur shit is just messed up recently?

[grizzled nebula]

I think its damage from an old drop

The drop that broke my sigma 24-105

[fast knoll]

oh man

time to upgrade to r5ii i suppose

[grizzled nebula]

IS and AF just drop randomly but everything else seems to work

[grizzled nebula]

Eh, could just be the mount ring

[left brook]

whats raw

[left brook]

hm

why not just do that

[grizzled nebula]

cause u can see it's not straight

and i already did an edit like that

not the same exact image

[left brook]

yea dat

dat good

[grizzled nebula]

but they're pretty much identical

i prefer the cropped in version personally

[left brook]

it looks kinda fried for some reason

uncanny

[spring vault]

it's like a weird ugly bald blue jay

burn victim

[grizzled nebula]

they're kinda nice in flight

you have the bluejays we have the european robins

[glossy sage]

I really like that birb

more than a bluejay

[tough hull]

Carry it there

@grizzled nebula

I saw vultures once

I found the pics again

But well

I was too late taking the pics lmao

This was in America lol

157mm

[dreamy tinsel]

i once had a dream about owning a sigma 100-400

now i actually do

one could say its my dream lens hehe (please laugh)

[rancid badger]

It's hard to when as an owner myself It's a good lens.

[tough hull]

One of my first bird photos on an actual photography camera

This is the first in total but it ain’t good at all

[fast knoll]

lol i got some very cropped flying vermilions

[undone slate]

no

how is possible

How is it possible that you took such a high-quality photo of a jay from such a close-up? HOW?

[naive fiber]

Because he got close?

[magic crown]

I think you know that place

@grizzled nebula

[remote remnant]

not even that close its cropped to shit

lmao

[tough hull]

@grizzled nebula did you disable like that people can repost your stuff?

I would suggest allowing that

Because then it would show up here on other people’s profiles who reposted it so you can get more reach

[green canyon]

New bird species in my garden!!!!!

Goldfinches

[gilded yarrow]

Hell yeah

Prolly about to get paid 60€ total for 4 of my pics lmao, not a lot but I can say I got paid for wildlife pics

for web/app use

[grizzled nebula]

haven't seen one in my garden since the neighbours cut the big tree down

[eternal igloo]

what sorta bug does this look like

[tacit gazelle]

Perhaps 2 beetles

[eternal igloo]

mm another beetle as a treat

[grizzled nebula]

wanted to go look for birds of prey today but my right knee hurts too bad

[potent zealot]

Perhaps it's a carpenter ant

I've seen a few in my home over the past few days

[eternal igloo]

tasty

[eternal igloo]

getting old 😔

i think i edited this ok considering the og one 😭

[tough hull]

I think Aarvs blocked me 💔

I’m sorry for tagging you so often

[tacit gazelle]

Why

[tough hull]

Idk I tagged him twice today

I think he got a bit pissed

[grizzled nebula]

??

[tacit gazelle]

Like out of context or why

Thats kinda silly I don't think so

[grizzled nebula]

🤩

[grizzled nebula]

No

[tacit gazelle]

Should I scrap

[grizzled nebula]

Ill be going back to camargue soon

[grizzled nebula]

Tell me what u see

[grizzled nebula]

https://tenor.com/view/michael-jackson-kinkytwt-michael-jackson-gun-stan-twitter-stan-twt-gif-8838448374497139850

Slow down

Im not that old

Only 19

[eternal igloo]

one foot in the grave 🥀

(im also 19)

[grizzled nebula]

no birds in my garden -_-

[tough hull]

Wait I had it on myself I think it’s on default

[grizzled nebula]

this?

[tough hull]

The setting is below I think

[magic crown]

You will see soon i go back home the heat haze is now too strong

But the most important species i saw are glossy Ibis (like a GOOD one) and Bee eater

And this one i've never seen before

[eternal igloo]

i dont recognize this duck

[trim fox]

looks like a common merganser

hairstyle throwing it off tho

[eternal igloo]

that's what i was thinking

the hair doesnt make sense

[trim fox]

it might just be folded back

[eternal igloo]

vro got shaved 🥀

barber did him dirty

[trim fox]

pushed her hairline to the seas fr

[eternal igloo]

has to be it

only one that makes sense

[trim fox]

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

but yea might just be the wind

[eternal igloo]

😭

the photo did him so dirty then

I realized Lightroom had smart albums where u can sort through photos you haven’t edited or rated yet and i just am terrified to see that’s like 4k photos

[trim fox]

wildlife moment fr

[eternal igloo]

Need to go back and use assisted culling ngl

[magic crown]

Some shots of the day (unedited)

[grizzled nebula]

nice, i saw 2 or 3 there last time too

[grizzled nebula]

in what part of the parc did u see the duck

i've only seen malards there so far

[magic crown]

The main part

And to finish with the series

[grizzled nebula]

gonna try going back very very soon

see any bee eaters and rollers there?

[magic crown]

The ibis shot have an insane potential

[magic crown]

I saw 2 bee eater it's not the best spot for them

Better to go at Marais du Vigueirat

[grizzled nebula]

i'd suggest u have a look at the reserve du petit rhone if u have the time

ik they have a bee eater spot they built

[magic crown]

Yeah i heard about it it's good but not as good like Mallemort or Vigueirat

And i got a colony near my home so

[grizzled nebula]

now that i have a teleconverter i'll be able to get some nice portraits

[eternal igloo]

wow how'd u take a photo of ur in body image stabilization

[magic crown]

Bro have a fire setup except the screen to edit lmao

[grizzled nebula]

it's good enough now that the brightness and contrast have been calibrated

[magic crown]

And color ?

[grizzled nebula]

still want to get a new one soon

[grizzled nebula]

eh it's fine

[magic crown]

Wdym ?

[eternal igloo]

ibis

[grizzled nebula]

it's a joke cause IBIS

[eternal igloo]

rly bad joke

[magic crown]

My brain is not even braining at this point of joke

[eternal igloo]

oh yeah

should i go back and re denoise old photos?

cuz like surely their denoiser gets improved over time

[trim fox]

ive def thought about doing that

[bitter trench]

A few I got in Korea, blurry because I had to do crazy cropping as they were like 100-150m away

[eternal igloo]

ok

wtf is going on with his plumage

is it a non breeding male?

[eternal igloo]

pretty colors

[bitter trench]

I know right. The blue ones were all over the place but loved to sit down on the lower rocks super far away (makes sense considering they are blue rock thrush)

[bitter trench]

Probably juvenile

[glossy sage]

Juvenile great blue heron

[naive fiber]

flying birds

[gilded yarrow]

ye female merganser

[naive fiber]

cool duck

[undone slate]

probably

@grizzled nebula

is this true

@tough hull

[grizzled nebula]

fucking chat gpt lol

[naive fiber]

no

the precapture thing is worse because NO RAW

[undone slate]

I know

[naive fiber]

also why do you care about your body so damn much

[tough hull]

I don’t have time rn I’m at an exhibition of my photography club

Call me crazy

[grizzled nebula]

what did u even ask chat gpt

[tough hull]

Imma try to get a swan on Large format

[grizzled nebula]

i asked chat gpt just for fun and it says R6II lol

that's how reliable it is

[tough hull]

On this

[undone slate]

Idk

i don't like ai

[grizzled nebula]

https://tenor.com/view/tired-bored-boring-die-suicide-gif-19713333

[undone slate]

u really like that thing

😭

[grizzled nebula]

you make me want to use it

[undone slate]

No please

[grizzled nebula]

so you ask chat gpt, i ask you what you said to it and then you tell me that you don't know and you don't like AI...

[undone slate]

i was asking for fun

Not for anything else

OK

SO I'LL BUY THE R6 II

[naive fiber]

this is gemini lol

its always there

[undone slate]

gemini and chatgpt

for me are the same

both are bad

[naive fiber]

ai is pretty good if you use it for helpful things in congunction to actual work instead of brainless stuff like this

[undone slate]

and why does ai say that?

[naive fiber]

NOBODY KNOWS
THATS THE WHOLE POINT ABOUT AI

[glossy sage]

Lmfao

[undone slate]

@wet anvil

[naive fiber]

have you just pinged a random guy

[undone slate]

no

[glossy sage]

Rock #💸・shopping-help and #🐒・gear-discussion for the best help on ur purchases

[undone slate]

Ok, i'm gonna check it maybe tomorrow.
i don't have time today 😭

[glossy sage]

Ok well if ya keep asking here ima
respond with canon powershot

[undone slate]

canon powershot what's that

[glossy sage]

A camera

[undone slate]

k

ok

[bitter trench]

Just buy both

Problem solved

[grizzled nebula]

just get R6III

[undone slate]

um

wait

why not r5 ii

?

the best canon camera for wildlife

[undone slate]

Give me 100k

and i would do tht

[grizzled nebula]

U can't afford that

[naive fiber]

ok do this:

make a spreadsheet about potential bodys and lenses

and look at costs

[undone slate]

and u?

[undone slate]

Ok, i will

this friday

i have an exam tomorrow

[grizzled nebula]

not rn

[undone slate]

https://tenor.com/view/god-of-war-gif-27369158

[undone slate]

[bitter trench]

If I had 100k I would buy more than 8gb of ram so it takes me less that 7 hours to edit 10 photos

[undone slate]

u spend 7 hours to edit 10 PHOTOS?

I found a strange gif, I'd rather not send it, but i can if you want.

[bitter trench]

Have you ever tried to use lightroom with an 8gb laptop

[undone slate]

mackbook?

macbook

[bitter trench]

Asus

[undone slate]

buy a macbook

[grizzled nebula]

lol

[bitter trench]

I have a pc back home, but I'm in Japan for another 3 ish months

[undone slate]

why

are u from japan

Sorry

[bitter trench]

No

[undone slate]

why u are in japan

[bitter trench]

I am uk

[undone slate]

nice

[bitter trench]

Work placement as part of studies

[undone slate]

what do u want to work

[bitter trench]

I do accounting

[naive fiber]

macbooks run fine on 8gb ran

because lr is fucking optimized lmao

32gb ram is barely enough lmao

[bitter trench]

Feast your eyes on 2gb lightroom

[naive fiber]

dont use opera

massive ram hog tbh

[bitter trench]

Its because I have like 17 tabs open icl

[naive fiber]

yeah but still

I stopped using opera because of that

[sharp ether]

Chrome is better I guess

Never had a problem with chrome

But I have 32gb tho

[bitter trench]

My pc runs it fine so I just use it for the compatibility

Editing on my laptop is only temp

[sharp ether]

Why do you prefer opera over other browsers?

[bitter trench]

Ngl its purely because I have all my passwords and stuff saved on there now and the effort to move it is more than the slight hassle it has on ram. My work is basically using spreadsheets so ram is never an issue on the laptop outside of lightroom.

[sharp ether]

I see

This is my first time seeing someone use opera

[naive fiber]

like this

[undone slate]

Yep

[eternal igloo]

Lowkey

[naive fiber]

go on

[eternal igloo]

It doesn’t matter if ur buying higher end mirrorless cameras 🥀 🥀

[naive fiber]

ok prices are wrong

but idk

[eternal igloo]

they all function the same that’s on god

[naive fiber]

kinda

raw precap is a massive thing

[eternal igloo]

my r7 has raw pre capture I thought that was default

[naive fiber]

no nikon has raw precap

[eternal igloo]

what

why

😭

[trim fox]

bozos

(joke)

[eternal igloo]

that ruins like the entire point of raw precapture

[naive fiber]

no clue

[naive fiber]

ok theres defo a difference between the r7 and r6

r6 and r5 not so much