Garden Birds.

[DeeGee]

I spent some time after work in the garden today. It wasn't brilliantly successful. Over half of the days shoot went into the bin. (I don't think there's a call for the back side of birds photos.)

I like these.

Nothing special. Just ordinary garden birds. Comments welcome.

Blackbird

Camera Canon EOS 500D
Canon 70-300 is usm
Exposure 0.001 sec (1/800)
Aperture f/6.3
Focal Length 300 mm
ISO Speed 400
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash Off, Did not fire

Sparrows.

Camera Canon EOS 500D
Canon 70-300 is usm
Exposure 0.002 sec (1/640)
Aperture f/6.3
Focal Length 300 mm
ISO Speed 400
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash Off, Did not fire


Camera Canon EOS 500D
Canon 70-300 is usm
Exposure 0.003 sec (1/320)
Aperture f/8.0
Focal Length 300 mm
ISO Speed 1250
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash Off, Did not fire

and not a bird... but I was next to the pond and he had to have a say...

Exposure 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture f/8.0
Focal Length 220 mm
ISO Speed 1250
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash Off, Did not fire

[tesarver]

Re: Garden Birds.



Tom

[antoeknee]

Re: Garden Birds.

Nice images, if there was anything that would improve the first 2 in particular it would be a catch light in the eye. The blackbird its quite hard to see the eye, the female/juv sparrow the eye is visible but a catch light would improve

I know its not always possible but if you look at other images you'll see the difference it makes. Something to try is take an image of a person with a good catch light in the eye and edit it out. The person can often look 'lifeless'.

[Stan]

Re: Garden Birds.

Practice makes perfect and so much better than the first bird shots i ever took

Stan

[antoeknee]

Re: Garden Birds.

Practice makes perfect and so much better than the first bird shots i ever took

Stan

Indeed, lots of my early bird photography was with film. Lost track of the amount I threw away before I got anything worth keeping. Also no AF, not sure how I managed now.

[MicroWyred]

Re: Garden Birds.

As Stan said good practice. Love the last one obviously was determined to get in on the act.

Dave.

[Bill53]

Re: Garden Birds.

Nice sharp shots. Ordinary garden birds are just as difficult to capture as any other wild bird.

Bills.

[DeeGee]

Re: Garden Birds.

Thanks all.

Not bad to say that I was sat in a patio chair.

[antoeknee]

Re: Garden Birds.

Comfort photography, bonus.

Wish I'd had my camera to hand this evening, got some meal worms out for birds and great tit family came down. Adults spent ages feeding 5 young that were easily same size as them.