Birds Birds not in Flight Thread - Post Your Shots Here

[iamdlewis]

These are a few from a couple months ago. I had hopes of being able to keep up with my editing.
Northern Cardinal

• ILCE-1M2
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/3200 sec
• ISO 8000

American Robin

• ILCE-1M2
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/1250 sec
• ISO 2500

Canada Goose

• ILCE-1M2
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 535.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/3200 sec
• ISO 3200

Wood Duck

• ILCE-1M2
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/4000 sec
• ISO 1000

• ILCE-1M2
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/4000 sec
• ISO 2500

Mallard

• ILCE-1M2
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/4000 sec
• ISO 1600

• ILCE-1M2
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/4000 sec
• ISO 1000

 

[Phil Vetra]

This guy was eyeing up my lunch this afternoon look'n for scraps...

• ILCE-1
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter
• 840.0 mm
• ƒ/9
• 1/5000 sec
• ISO 16000

 

[Orson]

Wood pigeon

• FE 600mm F4 GM OSS
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/4
• 1/3200 sec
• ISO 400

 

[Phil Vetra]

Sitting watching an Osprey nest on Pitt Lake and this guy flew in to check me out.

• ILCE-1
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter
• 524.0 mm
• ƒ/10
• 1/6400 sec
• ISO 8000

 

[Phil Vetra]

I really suck at birds in flight but, I think this one is OK. Out at Harrison Lake BC.

• ILCE-1
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter
• 840.0 mm
• ƒ/10
• 1/4000 sec
• ISO 2500

 

[CrankinSteve]

I am not pleased with my own capabilities toward operating and getting this new camera (A7R VI) set for this photo; I selected the wrong stored memory setting, but at least I got the shot. Shutter speed was to slow considering that when I saw this Hawk sitting on the house across the way I grabbed the camera which had the 70-200 on it and clicked away. It would have been better to have had the longer lens and the right PERCHED BIRD setting, but still with all those pixels I could crop it quite a bit. Anyway, a nice surprise photo while eating breakfast of this fine bird that has also picked up breakfast. Had I selected the right stored setting it would have been at 1/800 sec instead of the 1/250 sec. Such is the life of the amateur photographer.

• ILCE-7RM6
• FE 70-200mm F4 Macro G OSS II
• 200.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 125

 

[iamdlewis]

I am not pleased with my own capabilities toward operating and getting this new camera (A7R VI) set for this photo; I selected the wrong stored memory setting, but at least I got the shot. Shutter speed was to slow considering that when I saw this Hawk sitting on the house across the way I grabbed the camera which had the 70-200 on it and clicked away. It would have been better to have had the longer lens and the right PERCHED BIRD setting, but still with all those pixels I could crop it quite a bit. Anyway, a nice surprise photo while eating breakfast of this fine bird that has also picked up breakfast. Had I selected the right stored setting it would have been at 1/800 sec instead of the 1/250 sec. Such is the life of the amateur photographer.

I don't think that 1/800 would have been enough to have gotten the Mockingbird and I don't think Red Tailed would have really looked any different given the amount you clearly cropped.

I hate when I think I am in one memory setting and switch quickly to what I think is BiF or BiT and just get something all messed up.

 

[CrankinSteve]

I don't think that 1/800 would have been enough to have gotten the Mockingbird and I don't think Red Tailed would have really looked any different given the amount you clearly cropped.

I hate when I think I am in one memory setting and switch quickly to what I think is BiF or BiT and just get something all messed up.

Yep, you are right. Just not pleased with not doing something as simple as not picking the BIT memory setting. Yep, the 800mm lens would have been better with a 1/1000 sec shutter. But in the end, it is just a photo of one of those red tails. To get the mocking bird I probably would have needed 1/4000 but that was never the goal.

I am planning to get out to one of the wildlife reserves to really see how the camera performs. I have been taken down a few notches with a nasty sinus infection that has slowed me down. And, it has also been ridiculously hot out there. And, now we have Canadian smoke.

Still life is A-OK.

 

[iamdlewis]

Yep, you are right. Just not pleased with not doing something as simple as not picking the BIT memory setting.

Just remembered a problem I would have with the A1 and less so the A1ii. These have the shooting mode dial and even if you switch to BiF or BiT memory settings you can be in the very wrong shooting mode and there is nothing quite like hitting the shutter and discovering that you are on a 5 sec delay.

 

[CrankinSteve]

Just remembered a problem I would have with the A1 and less so the A1ii. These have the shooting mode dial and even if you switch to BiF or BiT memory settings you can be in the very wrong shooting mode and there is nothing quite like hitting the shutter and discovering that you are on a 5 sec delay.

This was the original prior to the massive cropping effort. I needed to reduce its size when the system here would not take it. Maybe because this is a reply. You can see that the 200mm was way below what was needed.