Birds Birds not in Flight Thread - Post Your Shots Here

[iamdlewis]

I'm very new to this Forum and hope to shortly have my own 100-400 lens on my A6500.

How far are you away from the beautiful robin when taking the photo and what lens are you using?

Robins and Mocking Birds are birds that generally you can get quite close to at times. Often they will be half the distance of standard bird distance.

 

[THXGEEK]

I'm very new to this Forum and hope to shortly have my own 100-400 lens on my A6500.

How far are you away from the beautiful robin when taking the photo and what lens are you using?

Hi Keith -

I was probably about 30 feet away, using the FE100-400mm. I didn't notice the bird was standing on 1 leg until I cropped and processed it.

 

[iamdlewis]

Young American Robin

• ILCE-1M2
• Sony FE 200–600mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS (SEL200600G)
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/800 sec
• ISO 2500

Double-Crested Cormorant. It appears that Cormorant rock lost its 2nd floor with the last big rain.

• ILCE-1M2
• Sony FE 200–600mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS (SEL200600G)
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/800 sec
• ISO 1600

 

[RogerSmith]

White faced ibis breeding colors

• ILCE-1
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/1600 sec
• ISO 1000

 

[THXGEEK]

White faced ibis breeding colors

What an interesting bird. That's one helluva beak. And the pink/green plumage is almost iridescent.


Nicely captured!

 

[Clix Pix]

I'm very new to this Forum and hope to shortly have my own 100-400 lens on my A6500.

How far are you away from the beautiful robin when taking the photo and what lens are you using?

I am not the one to whom you are addressing this question, but to add another perspective, while shooting the GBH II was standing on my deck (which overlooks a small lake) and was shooting with the Sony A1 and the 200-600mm with 1.4x TC. This lens is way too heavy for me to carry and use anywhere than on my deck and often I use my tripod but sometimes do handhold (very briefly!) as well before setting the camera body and lens down on my deck railing. My 100-400mm, even with a 1.4x or 2.0x TC, would not have gotten me anywhere near as visually close to the subject.

The GBH was straight across from me on the shore at the other side of our small lake. I'm not good at estimating distances but I used that lens-and-TC combination at full reach and even at that still did a bit of judicious cropping when later post-processing and editing the image.

When shooting birds and wildlife, yes, it is best to get as close as one can, either physically or with a camera and lens combination, (and ideally both!) but even at that, quite often most wildlife photographers still also need to crop in order to present a compelling, strong image.

 

[meridklt]

I am not the one to whom you are addressing this question, but to add another perspective, while shooting the GBH II was standing on my deck (which overlooks a small lake) and was shooting with the Sony A1 and the 200-600mm with 1.4x TC. This lens is way too heavy for me to carry and use anywhere than on my deck and often I use my tripod but sometimes do handhold (very briefly!) as well before setting the camera body and lens down on my deck railing. My 100-400mm, even with a 1.4x or 2.0x TC, would not have gotten me anywhere near as visually close to the subject.

The GBH was straight across from me on the shore at the other side of our small lake. I'm not good at estimating distances but I used that lens-and-TC combination at full reach and even at that still did a bit of judicious cropping when later post-processing and editing the image.

When shooting birds and wildlife, yes, it is best to get as close as one can, either physically or with a camera and lens combination, (and ideally both!) but even at that, quite often most wildlife photographers still also need to crop in order to present a compelling, strong image.

I notice the word 'crop' is regularly used on this forum and don't actually know what it means in the context of predominantly photo shots.

My interpretation if correct is what I do: When filming in UHD I regularly select a best frame of let us say a pigeon and just select the area I want from that clip and save as an image. Is that what you mean by crop?

 

[Clix Pix]

I notice the word 'crop' is regularly used on this forum and don't actually know what it means in the context of predominantly photo shots.

My interpretation if correct is what I do: When filming in UHD I regularly select a best frame of let us say a pigeon and just select the area I want from that clip and save as an image. Is that what you mean by crop?

The process of dedicated, still photography right from the start is very different from videography. Isn't UHD a term used in videography and cinematography? Are you primarily shooting videos?? Sounds as though you are and then from there you select and segregate specific frames......

Cropping is something we do in still photography, yes, usually to eliminate unwanted elements and distractions from the image and/or to make the subject, the primary focus, larger and subsequently making the overall image more compelling, more interesting. Using specific software for post-processing images shot during an excursion with a camera set up to shoot only still images is not at all the same as dealing with video images.

Working with video footage is something entirely different and I really don't know how videographers manage either their newly-shot film footage prior to or during editing. Hopefully someone else here does!

 

[meridklt]

The process of dedicated, still photography right from the start is very different from videography. Isn't UHD a term used in videography and cinematography? Are you primarily shooting videos?? Sounds as though you are and then from there you select and segregate specific frames......

Cropping is something we do in still photography, yes, usually to eliminate unwanted elements and distractions from the image and/or to make the subject, the primary focus, larger and subsequently making the overall image more compelling, more interesting. Using specific software for post-processing images shot during an excursion with a camera set up to shoot only still images is not at all the same as dealing with video images.

Working with video footage is something entirely different and I really don't know how videographers manage either their newly-shot film footage prior to or during editing. Hopefully someone else here does!

Yes, up to now I have primarily shot racing pigeon videos and any stills are taken from the best UHD single frame and for film editing, I use Edius. But I'm now on a brand new course, hence I'm on this forum.

 

[iamdlewis]

What an interesting bird. That's one helluva beak. And the pink/green plumage is almost iridescent.

You should go find a Glossy Ibis

I notice the word 'crop' is regularly used on this forum and don't actually know what it means in the context of predominantly photo shots.

Cropping is
This is out of camera

• ILCE-1M2
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 1250

This is cropped so you can see the Yellow Warbler

• ILCE-1M2
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 1250

 

[meridklt]

You should go find a Glossy Ibis

Cropping is
This is out of camera
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This is cropped so you can see the Yellow Warbler
View attachment 75010

Thank you for the explanation and I'm amazed you pulled the close up from such a large image. Did you then sharpen the close up?

 

[iamdlewis]

Thank you for the explanation and I'm amazed you pulled the close up from such a large image. Did you then sharpen the close up?

For this one I put the RAW file through Topaz Photo AI to denoise (with slight sharpening) then did my editing, which was some slight global edits and the crop.

 

[THXGEEK]

You should go find a Glossy Ibis

Wow!

 

[spudhead]

reed bunting

• ILCE-1
• FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 2X Teleconverter
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/2000 sec
• ISO 800

• ILCE-1
• FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 2X Teleconverter
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/2500 sec
• ISO 4000