Bird Photography

[tough hull]

Shit I didn’t notice the bittern

Agh nvm just a fucking goose

[gilded yarrow]

Lmao

[grizzled nebula]

Better than the other edit

[daring imp]

vafan edu svensk?

[grizzled nebula]

i have these too

[celest panther]

the last one is crazy for explanations, bokeh, dof and shutterspeed in one image

[grizzled nebula]

forgot to send this one which is probably my fav of the griffon vultures

[daring imp]

huggorm?

[tough hull]

First time seeing one while having camera

[tough hull]

Idk English name but Kreuzotter in German

Lemme translate

Adder

Vipera berus

At least I’m pretty sure

[daring imp]

yeah i was right, i see many of em in my cottage, always pretty chill

[tough hull]

Yeah

This one was like infront of me and I almost stepped on it

But ofc once I went to photograph it it went out of the open area

Here I almost stepped on it

[gilded yarrow]

Yoooo

Sick af

[tough hull]

Yeah I’m so lucky I finally got my cam

[daring imp]

i sadly drove over one this week 🙁 it looked like a stick further away cause i was owl scanning trees while driving on a wood road alone, then like 5 seconds before i noticed it was a snake and i tried to drive around it but back tire hit it. felt like shit afterwards, dont wanna kill em @tough hull

[tough hull]

I see the Ringelnattern always but this is my third time ever seeing a Kreuzotter

[tender galleon]

do you just put that on and put the phone into your pocket? does it still pick up the sound

[tough hull]

Yeah sad. My sister saw one a while back in our village on the road and she wanted to get a bucket to put it in and then free it, she left for 2mins to get the bucket and then someone drove it over

[tough hull]

Yeah even though it’s worse

There’s gulls breeding here btw

[tough hull]

That’s finish name right?

[daring imp]

no swedish, i checked ur birding app and i thought u were swedish earlier haha

[tough hull]

Right next to it was that other ring necked or idk how it’s in English

[tough hull]

Oh funny, I even saw it was Swedish but because you said it assumed it was the same in Finnish 😂

Oohh

Didn’t see it sadly

I saw it yesterday at 6am though

[daring imp]

i heard a bittern when i saw a hooded merganser a few weeks ago, 2 rare birds in one place which is cool lol @tough hull

[tough hull]

lol

[daring imp]

One rare boi. Only 23 spotted in finland since 2013. And i saw one 👀

[tough hull]

Gawdamn

[daring imp]

Are you in sweden now by any chance? I saw swedish name in the bird app you posted earlier @tough hull

[tough hull]

Yeah I am

Sadly my last week

[daring imp]

oh what u doing there?

i speak swedish too thats why i noticed lol

[tough hull]

Fishing and photography

[daring imp]

got any fish?

[tough hull]

A ton

I caught a 2.9kg pike on a fly

We caught so many pike in the first few days that we don’t wanna eat fish no more lol

[daring imp]

oo shit nice, i missed a big ass pike a few summers ago, should have dragged it to the shore but i tried lifting it up on the dock and it fell :c hahaha @tough hull

[tough hull]

Aw that’s sad

My brother caught an 80cm one yesterday

[fresh epoch]

Very nice! Nice image and what a pretty bird!

[daring imp]

Sick! Got my first own bought rod last summer. Its really good. 200€

This is my old one

[daring imp]

Thanks brother!

[tough hull]

Heh the rod I mainly use here costs 50€ and I got it for free

[daring imp]

pog

[tough hull]

The reel though 100€

[daring imp]

reel was expensive af, rod was like 90, reel 110 for me @tough hull

[tough hull]

Found a great crested grebe couple with kids

[daring imp]

reel are often more expensive right?

[tough hull]

Depends

[daring imp]

still nesting here in finland. waiting for hatching

[tough hull]

I think rods are more expensive for a lot of things

Like spin fishing both around same, bait cast it’s definitely the reel and for fly fishing definitely the rods lol

[daring imp]

def, fly fishing needs good as rods so they dont break

i want to try fly fishing but dad said its hard asf

[tough hull]

Nesting gull, two cormorants and two Canada goose

Can’t get low cuz the grass

Gonna try to get to the grebe couple

[daring imp]

theyre always so damn far away

[tough hull]

Yeah but I can get close enough for a good shot hopefully

Woodpeckers in there but they don’t wanna go out with me here

[grizzled nebula]

holy shit, u need to take a landscape shot there

[tough hull]

Grebes so close

Not allowed to get closer

[tender galleon]

i wish there was water bird spots near me

[daring imp]

So much here in vaasa

[grizzled nebula]

btw before i forget again, what i did for the puffin is basically raised shadows, lowered darks, raised contrast, added a radial mask on which i raised exposure in front of the puffin, gradial mask in which i lowered exposure very very slightly at the bottom, masked the puffin and raised exposure on dark areas

[tender galleon]

i live like 30km away from oulu in the middle of the fields

[daring imp]

L 😭

[daring imp]

Oh oulu? My cottage is close

[tender galleon]

i went to a lake in oulu on sunday morning but it rained like crazy

foreca lied about the weather

[daring imp]

Weather is crazy up there. My cottage is in ruka and its so unpredictable

[grizzled nebula]

the one i just sent before was a slight re edit, this was the one i showed u yesterday but head was too dark imo

[daring imp]

Nice!! Can you take a screenshot of the settings? So i can copy and see what it does?

[grizzled nebula]

photoshop sucks so when u save settings u can't see what u changed again if u don't have the raw file lel

[tender galleon]

idk if i should plan and make a pool for the swallows or focus on the curlews

[tough hull]

@daring imp what’s some cool places in Finland to like live at

Cuz like I’m pissed of by Germany

[daring imp]

Lapland is the only cool place to me 100%. Rest looks the same

[tough hull]

I wanna move as soon as I finish school

[tender galleon]

lapland and the "mountains" there

[daring imp]

Hills lol

Dirt hills xD

[tender galleon]

google translate said tunturi = mountain in lapland lmao

[daring imp]

We have fake mountains here xd

[tough hull]

Oh god yeah

I can get so close to the grebes

I think I can try going to them from one direction then they will back off like usual and then I can take a path where they can’t see me to a like half island where I am right next to them

[grizzled nebula]

tried redoing it quickly

this is quite nice lol

[tough hull]

After ages I suddenly heard the woodpeckers getting louder and starting to scream so I sprinted towards them but dad finished feeding the children so only 4 pics

Accidentally shot crop mode

[daring imp]

Oh you masked different parts?

[grizzled nebula]

yeah

[tough hull]

Merlin can’t decide wether it’s great or lesser

lol

I saw it though so I know

[daring imp]

@tough hull They are Hatched just now 😍 still in the nest

[tough hull]

Beautiful

Probably when I get to the closest grebe spot back home they are already grown up 😭

[daring imp]

Going back for video later

I filmed when they built nest, and gonna film now aswell. Like a mini Documentary

[tough hull]

Cool!

Daddy woodpecker arrived again

Just gotta wait for him to get to the nest

[daring imp]

Thanks btw!

[magic crown]

Next exhibit ready (for a whole month this time)

[tough hull]

Idk if that sounds good with noise suppression

It’s the woodpecker babies

[daring imp]

Cutest yawn ever

[grizzled nebula]

these baby gulls were super cute

[tough hull]

Aw come on the dad thinks I’m a predator so is now yelling for his kids to shut up

I think I have to leave

[daring imp]

Yeah if theyre disturbed in the nest leave asap. Dont ever go close to a nest!

[tough hull]

I’m still far away

Not far enough

[daring imp]

Good!

[tough hull]

Like 5m from the tree they are in, in some bushes and they are about 7m in the air

Doubled my distance though already more than doubled

At first I thought the distance was ok at first because it’s an official hiking path lol

The woodpecker though I think he’s extra cautious because he was probably in a fight, given the fact that it looks like his tail feathers are missing

Idk if that’s normal

[tough hull]

Here is where they are chilling, I was on the path lol

But I went further back for photography because of angle but that didn’t seem to have helped

The wildlife here is so different

I can get so close to geese and they aren’t bothered

And especially cormorants

[daring imp]

I am this close

Dont know why theyre not scared of humans

[tough hull]

Gawdamn

That’s cool

Is this some sort of cormorant courtship display?

[fast knoll]

nah they just spread their wings like that

sunbathing

[daring imp]

Just got a video of the dad giving the chicks a tiny fish 😍

[tough hull]

Damn that’s gonna be amazing

[tough hull]

Btw you already got midnight sun up there?

[grizzled nebula]

gonna try finding hoopoes near sunset

cba going to the campsite to look for owls rn 😭

[daring imp]

Long time ago!

@tough hull

[tough hull]

AMAZING 🤩

[daring imp]

Fishy

[tough hull]

So many nuthatch here

But bad lighting

Don’t think it’s worth shooting them a after what I got yesterday

@daring imp @grizzled nebula how loud is your guys shutter

Cuz mine is like hella loud and already scared a couple of birds while I was shooting

[grizzled nebula]

i know the perfect place for rollers and bee eaters for when i go to camargue

they built nests there and now there's some everywhere perched on the trees they places

[grizzled nebula]

less loud than this i think

i'll check after when i'm out

[daring imp]

Omg

[tough hull]

Filmed this 5mins ago he is still there

Ok just left

He was on there for like a very long time

Like over 8mins

I even switched to a macro adapter in the meantime

[daring imp]

Bangers coming today boys

[tough hull]

At every corner there are the reed warblers, but I can never see them

[tender galleon]

i cant find long eyecups for my cam

[tough hull]

Tripod leg touching water for the shot

[tender galleon]

why u holding the cam like that

i ❤️ anti mosquito spray

[fast knoll]

be careful some bug sprays can degrade the rubber grip on ur camera

[gilded yarrow]

bro please get a proper strap

PD slide

[grizzled nebula]

Can hear golden orioles from every angle

[tough hull]

Yoooo

I met another birder

[tough hull]

That’s the strap that was with the lens lol

[gilded yarrow]

I know

its terrible

[tough hull]

Hm

Does only Scandinavia have these?

I see them everywhere

In all my Scandinavia visits, I saw them every time

[naive fiber]

home assistant

[tough hull]

Hm you also got it?

[tender galleon]

i dont put on my hands

[naive fiber]

Yeah

[grizzled nebula]

Missed a cuckoo 💔

[naive fiber]

Don't use it near birds

I'm pretty sure they can easily from it

I searched it up pretty recently from going though the ingredients of mine

[grizzled nebula]

Cuckoo was right there ffs

[tender galleon]

mine is an organic one

shiit i saw a short eared owl but it disapperead

also saw 2 hares

[naive fiber]

I think even then it could be dangerous

Not trying to dig at you though if that what it feels like

[grizzled nebula]

Cant fucking believe what the r6ii just did

Had a cuckoo perfectly in focus and it focused on a leaf as soon as i pressed the tracking button????

[gilded yarrow]

thats why you buy an a1ii

[grizzled nebula]

A1ii wouldnt even have focused on it in the first place

[naive fiber]

this is why you buy a rebel t3

no bird eye tracking so it wont make this mistake

[tough hull]

WhY

lol

Like for lights only or like whole house

[grizzled nebula]

Golden oriole

[tough hull]

What do you do with it,

[naive fiber]

Oh the bird feeder

If a bird is detected I get a notification

[grizzled nebula]

Time to go home

Atleast i got an oriole and a woodpecker

Should had a cuckoo if the AF wasnt so dumb

Only 1 tick today

[steady pasture]

Thank god we have cypress trees around our pond for shade

It’s 92 Fahrenheit here

[grizzled nebula]

Its 9pm and 24°C

[steady pasture]

It’s 2 pm here

Me and the kingfishers have the same diet😂

Crawfish and fish

[grizzled nebula]

4 adults 6 babies

[tough hull]

Damn cool

I have only seen boar once in my life

With bare eyes

The other time just with thermal cam

[grizzled nebula]

Left them alone cause they had babies

[tough hull]

Yeah they can get dangerous

[grizzled nebula]

Had a tick in my backpack lol

[grizzled nebula]

Eh tbh theyre more scared of us than we are scared of them

They ran away when i got up

Only 1 male stayed back

[tough hull]

Yeah…

When you suddenly get too close it can be very dangerous

Last year two hikers in Germany got attacked by them

One needed to go to the hospital

[wet anvil]

i spotted a juvenile little owl, cutie

those dudes sing loudly every single night

[steady pasture]

Your boars somehow look less threatening than the ones here

Idk

[grizzled nebula]

I think here they know not to mess with humans cause they get hunted for 6 months of the year

[wet anvil]

i’ve been hearing a juvenile, i finally got it

[wet anvil]

ikr they look so innocent LMAO

[grizzled nebula]

I was pretty close to them just then

[tough hull]

Here too man

Whole year long btw

[steady pasture]

The ones here are just devils😭

[wet anvil]

same here, super invasive species

[tough hull]

You are allowed to shoot all the parents when there are kids

[wet anvil]

i know right

[steady pasture]

Boars are shit animals here for the most part, they tear up fields, get trapped in suburbs and have to be put down bc of how violent they get when in fear

SUPER invasive aswell

I believe

[tough hull]

But tasty

[steady pasture]

In Texas you can fly on a helicopter and shoot them out of farmers fields since they’re such a nuisance😭

[wet anvil]

violent when scared? sure, but the scary shit happens when they have kids

ngl

i don’t know about you, but here we are told all the time not to get near boars especially if they have younglings

[steady pasture]

I’ve never had an interaction with the children other spotting them when hunting

[wet anvil]

they tend to get super aggressive and defensive

[wet anvil]

please don’t ever have one for your own good LMAO

[steady pasture]

Which is fair ig

[wet anvil]

yah

super understandable

[grizzled nebula]

Damn, hunting is not allowed here during spring and summer

[tough hull]

My uncle is a hunter and last year he took me with him, and I saw so many animals but female deer were protected then plus you aren’t allowed to shoot deer at night and we only had .308 so if we had tried on rabbits there wouldn’t have been much left. The only boar we saw was a family with one adult and like 8 children but my uncle is a w guy so we didn’t shoot them so they could survive

Latest rainbow I’ve ever seen

10mins before sunset

[fresh epoch]

Cant wait to see this one on a bigger monitor. Looking forwards to the editing

[grizzled nebula]

ew what's that skin on the camera

[fresh epoch]

Just a wrap for styling and to protect the body from the worst scratches

[grizzled nebula]

probably gonna buy a lens cover for the 600 tomorrow

[fresh epoch]

Looks like this

[grizzled nebula]

i'm sorry but that's horrible 😭

as long as u like it tho that's all that matters

[tough hull]

This is gonna be a comp winning pic bro

[fresh epoch]

Thats fine, everyone has different tastes

[fresh epoch]

I have high hopes 😄

[tough hull]

I just had peak nature experience

[grizzled nebula]

i had peak camera disasterclass

[fresh epoch]

I'm starting to get tired of the design though, have had it for a while. Contemplating replacing it with something else

[tough hull]

I saw 5 rabbits, 2 deer a rainbow, a beautiful sunset at the same time and while writing this I just saw a sixth rabbit

And a woodcock

[fresh epoch]

Oh wow!

Lucky!

[steady pasture]

I love the RF 100-400

It’s so well-rounded as long as it’s not too dark out

[fresh epoch]

Me too, anything from birding to close-up's and most in-between 😁

[grizzled nebula]

female golden oriole

[steady pasture]

Can someone explain how to make bird+sky pictures NOT boring😭

Like even just slight adjustments to make it look more flashy💔🥀

[fresh epoch]

Dramatic clouds help. And underexpose a bit to not blow out the sky to show possible clouds etc

[steady pasture]

I’m still learning proper exposure, how would I go about purposefully underexposing?

[fresh epoch]

I prefer to have something more than just sky, like a mountain or a forest below the bird

[analog rivet]

Any Id? I thought they were starlings from a distance but never seen this one before

[naive fiber]

hope this is in focus

[steady pasture]

I do too, but I took some of a red tailed hawk and there was no good background in sight💔

[spring vault]

baby starling

[naive fiber]

set ev to around -0.4 ish

around there

[naive fiber]

and your camera (if you shoot manual with auto iso) should adjust iso to go along with that

unless iso is at lowest

[grizzled nebula]

might have to run the oriole through dxo tbh

[fresh epoch]

Just had to double check. The whole bird is in focus 🙏

[analog rivet]

👀

I love them

[fresh epoch]

Here I got lucky with the background, could have been a more interesting bird though lol

[steady pasture]

I’ve only ever touched EV once and that was when I got the cam and just started clicking buttons, time to start practicing😂

[fresh epoch]

There's a lot of artistic possibilities with adjusting the ev

[naive fiber]

Apparently if I do well on exams I get gifted a lens

[fresh epoch]

Oooh good luck then!

[naive fiber]

yeah idk what my budget would be but probably not the time to ask in front of my mum

this camera was a hand me down but my dad isnt afraid to spend money on lenses lmao

just wait and pray

[fresh epoch]

Lenses matter way more than bodies

[naive fiber]

very true

[fresh epoch]

Bodies only start to matter if high bursts speeds or ibis become crucial

[naive fiber]

wouldnt like to use an r5ii with a 75-300 at all

[fresh epoch]

Or higher resolution for cropping

[grizzled nebula]

lightroom vs DXO

[naive fiber]

dxo is right I hope

[grizzled nebula]

yes

[naive fiber]

so much better

[fresh epoch]

Looked into dxo yesterday, going to get the 30day free trial

[grizzled nebula]

worth the 90 euros i paid

[naive fiber]

photolab is 30 pureraw is 14

afaik

[tough hull]

Ye

Sadly

[fresh epoch]

Aah okay

[naive fiber]

pureraw trial has its limits though

only 20 photos batch

[tough hull]

Yep

[grizzled nebula]

so much better than with lightroom denoise

[naive fiber]

could you crop out the branch?

[grizzled nebula]

one on the left?

[naive fiber]

dunno how detail would be tho

[naive fiber]

one in the dead centre

its really distracting tbh

idk how much you could do about that though

[grizzled nebula]

there's no way i could crop it out lol

not cropping the image like this lol

[naive fiber]

yeah makes sense

maybe try blend it with the background a touch?

[grizzled nebula]

anyone got generative remove?

[naive fiber]

I think I did set it up on my laptop

need to check if it broke

run it natively

[grizzled nebula]

i don't pay for lightroom or photoshop so i don't have it

[tender galleon]

i have lr

[naive fiber]

rapidraw has it if you have a gpu or npu

just takes a bit of setup

[tender galleon]

i accidentally took a one year lightroom last december

[naive fiber]

oh rip lmao

[grizzled nebula]

could u try removing that middle branch with gen remove for me pls

[tender galleon]

okay

[tender galleon]

wont let me download

[naive fiber]

download on open in browswe

browser

[grizzled nebula]

images won't load fully for me

[tough hull]

Doesn’t Lightroom have gen ai?

[tender galleon]

it doesnt load there

[naive fiber]

ah it was doing something like that

[grizzled nebula]

i don't pay..

[naive fiber]

oh lmao

[tough hull]

Ag

lol

Almost thought so

I don’t blame you lol

All that Adobe shit is overpriced asf

[tender galleon]

can u send that in jpg

lightroom doesnt support png

[naive fiber]

yayyyyy

[grizzled nebula]

wut

i opened png files all the time on lightroom

[tough hull]

Yum

[naive fiber]

not for gen ai I dont think

[grizzled nebula]

gimme 1 cause i need to fix some sharpness issues with my photo quickly 😭

[tender galleon]

you happy with this? ill try to fix the birds feathers rq it messed them up

[grizzled nebula]

for the branches yes perfect

warra birds i'm sending rn

[tough hull]

I can’t wait till Spain

I will definitely get a Lightroom subscription then for editing

[tender galleon]

should be good now

[tough hull]

Otherwise imma end up with 1TB of photos unedited

[grizzled nebula]

bruh why won't discord let me see full res images

[grizzled nebula]

also could u send as PNG pls so it doesn't lose any IQ

[tender galleon]

mobile lightroom doesnt let export in png

[grizzled nebula]

birb

[grizzled nebula]

ah DNG then

[tender galleon]

okay

[grizzled nebula]

that's basically a raw format so that's perfect

[grizzled nebula]

think the export settings are broken

[tender galleon]

hmm

in dng it doesnt let you do anything to it

[grizzled nebula]

this is why i don't pay for adobe products

[grizzled nebula]

what's weird is that a DNG should be 10x bigger than that

i'd expect it to be atleast 30mb

[tender galleon]

fake dng or something

btw aarvs do you have instagram page

[grizzled nebula]

yh

https://www.instagram.com/aarvswl/ only started it very recently

[tender galleon]

followed u

i post mostly in finnish lol

[tough hull]

I think you can hold on

Nvm

Just saw your screenshot

@grizzled nebula what was that

[grizzled nebula]

yh idk lightroom just exports low res on mobile for whatever reason

[tough hull]

Did he kill somebody 💀

[grizzled nebula]

no idea

[tough hull]

Bruh

[tender galleon]

?

[grizzled nebula]

why does it export in low res...

[tough hull]

Idk

I may stay up all night and try to see some sandpipers

And then I will see it’s just an oystercatcher

[grizzled nebula]

It sends higher quality images when u share instead of save to gallery

[tender galleon]

i did share

oh wait

i did export as

[grizzled nebula]

yh idk why but that sends lower quality images for whatever reason

[tough hull]

89 geese if I counted correctly in one frame lmao

@deep vigil

Earlier you wanted to see how I got 40+ geese in one frame but I said I don’t have the pic

I still don’t have it but I found a video which I have

That’s a screenshot of this vid

[daring imp]

yawning crebe

[naive fiber]

It's a setting I think?

[tough hull]

Damn only 16k

That’s a good price I think

[deep vigil]

you can barely see them

[celest panther]

How is the quality of the skin?

[daring imp]

looking at me

[tough hull]

Yeah obviously though it’s a bad screenshot

How else am I supposed to fit the whole group in

[fresh epoch]

Super good. Was cheap but havemt lifted a corner yet, and eas very forgiving to qpply

[daring imp]

another catch

[naive fiber]

That nikkor is expensive woah

It's that price new here

Wait currencies

[green canyon]

I have no time to photograph anything 😭

[tough hull]

Gonna be me after the holidays

But in July? Hell yeah imma have a lotta time

[wet anvil]

looks like a juvenile starling

[naive fiber]

Same

[green canyon]

yeah, after Wednesday im finally free

no more exams

Atleast important ones

[naive fiber]

My exams finish on friday

[wet anvil]

yeah i hate exams

[naive fiber]

So sad me

[wet anvil]

i will probably finish on july

[tough hull]

After holidays 3 weeks of like 5 exams

[green canyon]

light work

[naive fiber]

I have 11 exams this week

[tough hull]

Wait no

More

Idk right now

[daring imp]

anyone here know what this is?

[tough hull]

Nope

[naive fiber]

Actually no time to revise

[tough hull]

Omg

[wet anvil]

location

[tough hull]

Eurasian Siskin

[naive fiber]

Sizlin

[daring imp]

finland

[naive fiber]

Idk

[green canyon]

heaven?

[tough hull]

Never seen one but wanted so hard

[naive fiber]

What am I doing

[daring imp]

are they rare? saw one while driving today @tough hull

[wet anvil]

finland?

oh shit i don’t know

[daring imp]

i wish, nah but this is just jpg, it was foggy asf but couldnt catch on camera

[wet anvil]

maybe yellowhammer? no idea

[tough hull]

Idk I haven’t seen one though

[wet anvil]

mightbbe what eric said

[tough hull]

At least here they are probably rare

[wet anvil]

look up yellowhammer

[tough hull]

Nope

It’s definitely not a yellowhammer

100% sure

I’ve been trying to find siskins so long

[naive fiber]

Wtf are all these cool colourful birds you guys have

[wet anvil]

yeah i looked it up it’snnot a yellowhammer

[daring imp]

driveby shot by me lol @tough hull

[tough hull]

Damn

[tough hull]

I don’t see it lol

[naive fiber]

I have shades of grey, brown, and maybe a dash of blue

[tough hull]

I saw a bullfinch though today

No pic sadly

[green canyon]

where do you live?

[naive fiber]

Ingerland

[green canyon]

uhhh

[daring imp]

we have like 4/5 eating at our cottage every winter, and summer some too. common here

[naive fiber]

England I tried to put a spin on it

[green canyon]

oh lol

[naive fiber]

Like how the people say it here

[green canyon]

it sounded dutch

[tough hull]

We have them here too, unfortunately they are hella rare to find in summer even though they are year round, but like in early spring you can see lots

[green canyon]

you have plenty of colourful birds over there

[naive fiber]

Do we?

[green canyon]

you do

england is quite rich with birds

[tough hull]

London where he lives not really though

[green canyon]

close enough to other places

[naive fiber]

Yeah I live in London

[tough hull]

Peregrine though

[naive fiber]

I went to the spot

None were out that day sadly

[green canyon]

just bad luck

go again

[naive fiber]

Yeah I have seen them before

Live at the top of that tower there

May go down to the isle of whight and see if there are any puffins

We do have a shit ton of mandarin ducks

Forgot about those

[tough hull]

I need to find one here otherwise I’ll have to wait till winter to see some

This is probability for where I live

[grizzled nebula]

gonna go back early tomorrow and hopefully gonna be able to get more pics of them

[fresh epoch]

Damn, saw a Common Teal but sadly on the wrong side of the lake 🙁

The uncommon ducks are always too far away

Took a pic for takings sake but it's super shit xD

[sharp ether]

I love ducks but they're never close enough

So I hate them now

[grizzled nebula]

Ive only seen 2 or 3 ducks that werent mallards

[tough hull]

@grizzled nebula https://www.kkinstagram.com/p/DZD1fHeMXe5/?igsh=MXNsOWJhdjNvMXR1dw==

Idk why but I thought adding that soundtrack is funny

Wait hold up lemme try something

Ooh

Noice

Anyway imma go to bed now

[grizzled nebula]

Gn!

[daring imp]

lil boi eating fish upside down while looking at me, i got worried he would choke lol. the fish was bigger than him xd

[narrow crag]

Breh.... Why even post this here 😭

[daring imp]

This is weird. Why are they giving feathers to the young?

This is insane. You see all the young ones in the back

Careless mom dropped the kid 😂

[tough hull]

I saw it while preparing to go birding

[daring imp]

👀

[daring imp]

Got a picture when they fell lol

[tough hull]

NO WAY

I SAW AN OSPREY

Whilst I was trying to get close to arctic loons

It’s funny cuz one came up right next to our boat and then got scared lol

[daring imp]

Still haven't seen a loon this summer close. Only far away

[tough hull]

Livky you even have them

Back home there’s no wildlife

[daring imp]

We have them living in my cottage lake sometimes. Dad saw 2 this year hopefully they move

[tough hull]

Western marsh Harrier landing in the marsh

[tough hull]

Damn that’s crazy

[tender galleon]

i dont think thats a siskin

its a yellowhammer imo

[daring imp]

Makes sense just checked. Thats it

Havent seen in a while

[tender galleon]

yeah siskins top of the head is darker

[daring imp]

Hi! I've been documenting a Great Crested Grebe family for several weeks with my Canon gear and recently captured a rare behavioral moment where a chick appears to fall from the parent's back. I thought the images and story might be interesting for Canon Suomi. I'd be happy to share the full series if you're interested. Is this a good message to send to canon? Canons finnish facebook posts peoples pictures with a story so would have a chance with this one!

[tender galleon]

will you send that in finnish

[daring imp]

Could you translate?

[daring imp]

This is the kind of images they post. half good sometimes

[tender galleon]

do you mean by this that could i rranslate the text for u or what 😅

[daring imp]

Yea would be sweet!

[tender galleon]

alright i can send u in dm

[daring imp]

Added!

[tender galleon]

i'll send u it as soon as i can i have to walk the dog rq

[wet anvil]

these are grebes, their mating ritual consists in giving feathers and “dancing”

they basically use them as protection

if you didn’t know, they eat the feathers they give eachother

i did not know they do it outside of their mating ritual tho

but yeah they most definitely give them to their children to aid digestion etc

[grizzled nebula]

didn't go back to where i went yesterday this morning cause weather is kinda shitty rn

i'll go this afternoon if the weather clears or tomorrow morning

[daring imp]

Oh i know the spicies but didn't know about the feather part! That's cool

[wet anvil]

ikr, do you know about the mating ritual?

they dance and then they run on water

[daring imp]

Yes filmed it!

[wet anvil]

it’s so goofy

FR?

brooo

[daring imp]

Been documenting the birds nest now! Gotten insane images

[wet anvil]

we don’t have grebes in my zone ouch

[daring imp]

@wet anvil videos too

[wet anvil]

cuties

i’m planning to shoot a kingfisher as soon as i get my new camera

my friend has one right next to his house

so i mean, when you see it there once, you’re guaranteed to find it again LMAO

[daring imp]

The nest was at a hospital next to me. Went there every day

[wet anvil]

ooo

[daring imp]

They nest there every summer

[wet anvil]

does it get really cold in winter for you?

[daring imp]

Nah only -30

[wet anvil]

they usually move in their nonbreeding season if the water is too cold or frozen

[wet anvil]

celsius or fahrenheit

[daring imp]

Can be -40 + sometimes

[wet anvil]

[daring imp]

C, proper one

[wet anvil]

i wish it was F

how do you survive

with that temp

yeah they migrate if the water’s frozen

[daring imp]

Being fat helps

[wet anvil]

LMAO

i can’t wait

i only have the photo my friend took with his phone for now

[tough hull]

@daring imp

We had a fish freak out on the boat and he jumped towards my lens

This was a once in a lifetime catch too

Originally it was just a 55cm pike but then this 93cm pike tried to eat it and we got two at the same time!

[daring imp]

Oh shit nice!! @tough hull

[tough hull]

There’s slime on the front element 😢

Gotta clean it now

[gilded yarrow]

Lol sick

[tender galleon]

oh no its still there

[wet anvil]

what’s that near its eye, a tick?

[tough hull]

Yeah

[wet anvil]

poor thing

[tough hull]

Was there already a couple of days ago

Wait @tender galleon you a he or she

Was boutta say he saw that a couple of days ago

[wet anvil]

horrible spot to have a tick, fortunately it’ll come off on its own

[tough hull]

Yeah

[wet anvil]

i bet that hurts like crazy

[tough hull]

Probably not

[wet anvil]

understandable

looked it up and i did not know they injected their saliva

kinda like mosquitoes

yeah that shouldn’t hurt for the squirrel fortunately

[tough hull]

Hurts afterwards

[wet anvil]

holy damn are those boars

[tough hull]

Merlin cannot recognize loons for some reason

[wet anvil]

oh lol loons

i swear i thought they were boars LMAO

merlin doesn’t recognize italian sparrows for me

nor common redstarts calling

[tender galleon]

he

wrist strap arrived

bald cam lol

[tough hull]

Noice

[tender galleon]

does anyone know how to apply this

i cant find anything online

[tough hull]

Send an image

[tender galleon]

i need that in there somehow

ill ask gear chat

[tender galleon]

ou shi the tick is big

waiting for squirrel to move closer to the flower

[tender galleon]

waiting paid off

[daring imp]

Tried taking some wildlife pictures with my Zfold6. Didn't go well lol

[wet anvil]

LMAO happens

[tough hull]

I wanna go bokehmaxxing or idk I recently heard something like that

Doing everything to get bokeh

[grizzled nebula]

S21 ultra

[daring imp]

been following this family from when they built the nest, laid in the nest and left the nest! you guys will get some incredible pictures soon

been following them for atleast a month

family watching the dad fish!

gotten very unusal behaviours on picture.

[wet anvil]

you got me hooked, whaddya shoot

[daring imp]

if youre asking gear, r6 mark 2, 600mm f4 mark 1 is L

[wet anvil]

no sorry i meant the behaviours

i like etology

is that how you say it in english

ethology

ok ethology

[daring imp]

all kinds of behaviours! cant explain

[wet anvil]

birds are magical

might specialize in ethology when i get done with uni

but first i gotta worry about high school lmao

[daring imp]

this might have never been photographed before properly, the chicks falling from the mothers back. the most interesting shot i got @wet anvil

[wet anvil]

that’s so cute, they’re using her as a slide lolol

[daring imp]

i honestly have not found a similar image on google. might be a rare shot

not even AI could find anything similar

[wet anvil]

i can definitely find photos of young grebes on their mothers’ back, you probably just shot the moment they fell from it

it’s a really nice photo

[daring imp]

oh i know chicks on the back have been photographed before, but not them acctualy falling out from the back

[wet anvil]

yeah nothing like that on google

yeah lol

[daring imp]

thats what i meant sorry

[wet anvil]

good catch

[tough hull]

Got more pics with that fish? I think it’s a Zander but I can’t tell

[tough hull]

Gawdamn

Yeah I think it is one

Anyway this can’t be real

I lost my 200-600 lens cap

[grizzled nebula]

hmmm fissshhhh

[tough hull]

Found it again

It was in the jacket I wore yesterday evening while I was trying to get woodcocks

I set that up one hour ago for a squirrel because it was there for like 2 hours and always only left for a few mins and after setting it up it didn’t come back😭

[daring imp]

feeding in the rain

is this stupid or creative? tried dutch tilt on this pose lol

[tender galleon]

if the bird had wings out and was looking left it would br good

[tough hull]

@daring imp

Poor adder

[celest panther]

whats the exif of that shot? its part of guess the settings game

[daring imp]

cranes filling the frame from last summer, there is a spot here where there are 2000+ cranes staying before migrating

[celest panther]

at what aperture and ISO?

[grizzled nebula]

Wet

Started raining like crazy so just went back home

[daring imp]

I staid shooting in the rain today. Not many people do that haha

[grizzled nebula]

i would've stayed but this was flood level rain

[grizzled nebula]

u meant the one underneath?

if so then these are the settings

i didn't even notice i was at F/5 when i was taking the shots

the gorges du verdon was so nice

[celest panther]

the idk how its called with the beautiful bokeh and the mounatin in the background

[gilded yarrow]

Its worth it pretty much every time

[celest panther]

🔥

first bomb them with specs and theory and then when they are all asleep get over to actually create beautiful images

[grizzled nebula]

rain has stopped for now

might go in my garden to see if the tits are out

Bridge

[celest panther]

GOAT

[daring imp]

thoughts on this? had to use 1.6x crop on r6 mark 2, they were abit too far

[tender galleon]

wait this chat lwk been calm

rocks been quiet

[grizzled nebula]

yeah

rock hasn't spoken in almost 2 days now

[daring imp]

we roasted him out of this chat

[grizzled nebula]

my 600's front element is full of greasy print

[daring imp]

this one is kinda cool

[grizzled nebula]

https://tenor.com/view/reddit-kangaroo-flexing-muscles-flex-gif-8139850

kangaroos are scary asf

[naive fiber]

Somehow

[daring imp]

dont summon him lol

[tender galleon]

cant wait for the common kestrels to hatch

a month after they hatch they will fly around the nest and usually they sit on a barn here

[daring imp]

this was a pretty fun catch, before diving

[grizzled nebula]

U Have a TC or not?

can't remember

[tough hull]

Damn

Cranes don’t exist where I live I think

[daring imp]

no tc!

[grizzled nebula]

u should get one tbh

[tough hull]

Yeah no, I have 10crane sightings within a 30km radius of me and last one was in 2024 and only one with them on the ground was in 2022

[grizzled nebula]

they're normally there in the winter

[tough hull]

I only have them migrating

But they rarely stop

So that’s why there’s only one sighting when they were sitting

[grizzled nebula]

where do u live already?

[naive fiber]

I should go Saturday evening to try get bird photos

If it's not cloudy I could get nice duck bokeh

[daring imp]

was thinking about both 1,4x and 2x, everything is so damn far away here

[tough hull]

Already?

[daring imp]

my camera has a 1.6x crop built in but then its only 9mp sadly

[tough hull]

Wait

Why don’t you have the booster role no more

[daring imp]

1 year nitro just expired lol

[tough hull]

Ah ok

[daring imp]

accidentally had autobuy on 1 year subscription xD

[grizzled nebula]

It’s a way of saying I forgot

[tough hull]

You mean again?

lol

[grizzled nebula]

It’s basically the same thing, both get used

[tough hull]

Anyway south of Germany

That’s where I’m from

[grizzled nebula]

Ah yh then u wont have them

[tough hull]

Well with luck I could see them

[daring imp]

is this shot interesting to you guys? both front, and back of the same bird in one picture! interesting wings too

[tough hull]

During migration

[tough hull]

Not really

Left one isn’t pulling attention towards himself

[grizzled nebula]

i would not rec the 2X on the 600 mark1

better to just crop even on 24mp

1.4x is nice tho

sharpness is not too bad on the 600 mark 1 with the 1.4x tc but i'd still stop it down to 6.3

2x on the mark I is horrible tho

[daring imp]

This still seems fine!

[grizzled nebula]

yh 1.4x is very useable still (F/6.3 increases sharpness a lot)

the 2x tho as u can see is almost unusable

[daring imp]

What about f9?

[grizzled nebula]

you'd need to go to F/11 to get barely usable results

2x on the IS II

decent sharpness gain at F/11 aswell

[tough hull]

What’s that website

Tell me

[grizzled nebula]

[grizzled nebula]

https://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/ISO-12233-Sample-Crops.aspx?Lens=748&Camera=979&Sample=0&FLI=2&API=4&LensComp=336&CameraComp=453&SampleComp=0&FLIComp=3&APIComp=3

[tough hull]

Thanks

[grizzled nebula]

wait actually at F/11 the 600 IS II loses IQ

F/9 is when it's the sharpest with the 2x tc

[coarse bough]

Great Gray Owl

[grizzled nebula]

really want to see one of them

[fast knoll]

me too

do u have a little more room on the top?

the background is rlly nice this has a lot of potential

[naive fiber]

Scary thing

Seems really close, cropped in at all?

Could also do with denoising and increasing saturation a bit as it is a bit dull

Unless that's artifacting from compression

Really good shot though

[coarse bough]

I did crop it in quite a bit. I wish I had a little more room on the top, but the owl was already pretty close to the edge of the frame

[coarse bough]

Yeah it is cropped quite a bit, which probably makes it look even closer. I’ll definitely try some denoising and see if I can bring out a bit more color in the edit

[coarse bough]

Thanks! 😊

[naive fiber]

Could you send uncropped?

You could give the illusion of space with a frame maybe?

[grizzled nebula]

editing these kingfisher pics again

[grizzled nebula]

Double rainbow sunset

Got to stitch this after to male a panorama

[grizzled nebula]

Ik this isn't the channel for this but look at this insane sunset

[trim fox]

wtf

[tough hull]

Yesterday was still cooler for me

[gilded yarrow]

Oh shit youre right

[trim fox]

lmfao 😭

[naive fiber]

Maybe he got his phone taken away or something

[tough hull]

Hm

“I think I’m gonna die right now”

Maybe he died cliffdiving, holding two axes

I think you get the reference Aarvs

Why did you name yourself Aarvs btw?

[grizzled nebula]

Idk, random

[tough hull]

lol

[grizzled nebula]

I wanna change it tbh

[naive fiber]

Wait your pfp is a duck

I only just realised this wtf

[tough hull]

Yeah lmao

[naive fiber]

It's the deco that throws me off

[tough hull]

Has almost always been

[naive fiber]

I can only see the fuck now

Duck

Not fuck

[tough hull]

Was my first ever pfp and only for like one month I changed it and then changed it back

[tough hull]

Hahhahahaha

Hahhahahaha

This is so funny

Bro recently my sister says she knows more birds than me

And then I absolutely failed talking

Because I’m German the plural form you say for whose is this (dativ in German) of birds is also means getting freaky

[naive fiber]

I can't spell ffs

[tough hull]

God I hate German double meanings

lol

The middle one

Meep

[grizzled nebula]

Big boi

[naive fiber]

Battery grip?

[grizzled nebula]

Yep

[tough hull]

No need for batter grip lol

For me

Switching between two batteries is totally fine and lasts the whole day for me

I can try out how many shots I can take in a row before batter dies for yall after I’m home

Only es though because heck no I don’t wanna get +10k shuttercount

@naive fiber

I was just trying to goof around and they took it seriously 😬

[naive fiber]

I SAW THIS LMFAO

The horse has absolutely no detail I was 99% sure it was a joke and they took it seriously

[tough hull]

Yeah idk

[grizzled nebula]

Looking for a lens cover for my 600 so i went to look on rolanpro and they're using images of another brand 😭 😭 😭 😭

[tough hull]

Nah

That’s crazy

Bro have you guys been seeing what’s going on in #💬・lounge

[grizzled nebula]

😭 😭

[tough hull]

Cuz like they be talking bout races, identifying them and stereotypes like bro 💀

[tough hull]

Just build one yourself

[grizzled nebula]

https://tenor.com/view/f1-gif-25339191

[tough hull]

No not these races

[grizzled nebula]

https://tenor.com/view/son-im-crine-son-im-crine-gif-5176045023480767429

[tough hull]

Meh learn sewing brutha

[grizzled nebula]

I know how to see

[tough hull]

TYPO

FUCK

TINY

KEYBOARD

ON

[grizzled nebula]

[tough hull]

PH
HONE

ABHAHAHAHAHAH

inner crashout

[grizzled nebula]

Im gonna buy a chasing birds cover anyway i think

The rolan pro looks weird on the 600 f/4

[tough hull]

Can birds see bright orange?

Like what’s their eyes like do they see red?

Cuz like hunters often wear camo but bright orange hats to not be confused with by other hunters

For deer

Idk if it’s same for birbs

[grizzled nebula]

Not at all

[tender galleon]

i get it

[naive fiber]

LMAO

[tough hull]

Well marsh harrier imma not edit

INTERNET BLYAT

Tf?

Very late and internet stopped working ggs

Can’t wait to get home and edit these

After I saw this osprey, and got pictures I realized I saw an osprey a couple of days before

[gilded yarrow]

How about svraA

[tender galleon]

lol my nickname is based on my plushie i got when i was 3

the plushies name is kari but kari was taken on every platform so i picked kartsa

[naive fiber]

Srava

Mine is based off of some wordplay

my name originated from Minecraft
I used to use a ninja skin and I subsequently sucked at the game
And ninjas are well sly
So idk I made notverysly
And I never thought of anything better
Not very interesting lore but

[tender galleon]

i wish i had a 600mm f0.9

[naive fiber]

How big would that be

[tender galleon]

a plane

would be sick shooting owls midnight

[tough hull]

Oh god

I looked it up

[tender galleon]

is it a thing lmao

[tough hull]

The front element would have to have around 67cm diameter

[tough hull]

No

You technically could do it

But you’d need

1. be a millionaire
2. be a heavy lifter

focal length / f-number = aperture diameter

Rock anteater?

lol

Can yall beat me?

[tender galleon]

i have 47 this year but no water birds

[tough hull]

General count

[tough hull]

Already beat that in the last two weeks 😆

Only 8 of these I don’t have pictures of lol

[grizzled nebula]

this could've been beautiful if it wasn't taken on phone and if i was a bit lower

[tough hull]

Where was that

Like obviously on an airplane

But where is that landscape

[grizzled nebula]

can't remember

somewhere over the alps probably

[tough hull]

K

I got some cool shots in 2024

But

JPEG 😭

[grizzled nebula]

everytime i go to scotland i go past that area

[tough hull]

Looks like it’s from space

But actually an airplane

This is the original

[grizzled nebula]

lake that was just before that photo

right in the middle of the alps

[tough hull]

Dayum cool

What’s your closest big airport?

[grizzled nebula]

nice

[tough hull]

I asked you for a city and not a reaction

[grizzled nebula]

found the village

Novalaise

that's the name

[tough hull]

Nice

Haha

It’s funny though especially for me of a German since Nice is Nizza

[grizzled nebula]

wait i think it's not the correct village

no idea what it is tbh

can confirm it's Susa 100%

finally solved this mistery

[tough hull]

Geoguesser

lol

[grizzled nebula]

i had another image that showed a highway with an overpass and i found it from that lol

[grizzled nebula]

that's how it was written when i was coming back from barcelona and i since i didn't know i almost didn't board the plane and started panicking 💀

[tough hull]

Birders and planes uniting

https://www.kkinstagram.com/reel/DZDN5svRrVx/?igsh=MW9jc2V4dGt3MDhhNg==

[tough hull]

Nah

That’s crazy

[grizzled nebula]

which crop

[trim fox]

2

[wet anvil]

it’s nizza in germany too???

[grizzled nebula]

you think the image is still acceptable even with the quality?

[trim fox]

it looks great to me, blown up on my monitor you can see some imperfections but overall i think its fine