[Theme] Show Birds

[Frank Fremerey]

tommiejeep: As long as I get the chance to practice on the Swifts every other day ... yet due to my work & children and wife I miss a lot of opportunities to shoot the Swifts ...

I keep fighting!


BTW: What is a KF? the gekko-eater: * D75_7622.jpg

[Fons Baerken]

Df  zf85mm f/1.4

[chris dees]

tommiejeep: As long as I get the chance to practice on the Swifts every other day ... yet due to my work & children and wife I miss a lot of opportunities to shoot the Swifts ...

I keep fighting!


BTW: What is a KF? the gekko-eater: * D75_7622.jpg

KF = Kingfisher 

[John Geerts]

I am not really ínto birds, but sometimes they just fly in the frame and keep waiting...

[Frank Fremerey]

Here is the first image, taken a few days ago, that shows the direction I am heading.

D500. 300PF.

[chris dees]

D500 + Sigma 150-600 Sport + Sigma TC 1.4x.
ISO10000 some basic LR PP

[ArendV]

young great tits (D500 with 300/4E VR wide open):

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[Frank Fremerey]

Arend. Same combos suits me well too, yet you obviously are a
experienced bird shooter and I am just starting to fall in love with
that topic. Great shots.

I start to see birds. Yesterday between two heavy pour downs I
 managed to drive on my bicycle. Fast. One of these little birds
flew in front of me just at the same pace as me.

Wonderful all the colors and details ... seems they laugh all the time
... taking their picture ... no ... watching them without taking their
picture is such a pleasure, such a gift!

[ArendV]

Thanks Frank and you describe well the joy of bird watching. I always bring my camera with me going out in nature, but certainly do not always come back with a nice picture. Still it is always a nice experience !

[elsid]

Reply to #274. Frank, you have caught the same virus I caught last December, when I mounted the 300mm PF on the D810. Then the D500, which I got the first day it came to Greece, was a natural move. I am not an experienced photographer but I can see how good the D500+300mm PF combo is. Here are some photos with this combo.

[Frank Fremerey]

ElSid: these look a bit like my first shots with the combo. Try some sytematical test with variation of:

a) exposure times
b) VR-Setting
c) AF-Settings
d) RAW conversion settings

This is only about the technical aspects, nothing concering the pictures per se.

With the gulls and the first shot you seem to have hit the right combo.

The little bird seems rather rough like I would expect from a 100% crop of a 20k-ISO-file. I guess there is a RAW conversion issue or too high ISO.
The otherwise superp pelican shot suffers from camera shake and/or defocussing.
The bird landing on water seems to suffer some RAW conversion issue too.

[elsid]

Frank, thank you for your comments and advice. All shots were handheld and focus, as you remarked was not "right". The little bird and the landing pelican are 100% crops. I will try to experiment, as you suggested, and hopefully my "hit" rate will go up.
Thanks again.

[Frank Fremerey]

Give NX-D a try. I dismissed the software for quite a while then saw it is the best option we have currently when it comes to D500-RAWs

[ArendV]

[FredCrowBear]

Arend - That is adorable!  What lens?