Chaffinch on feeder

Joe T

Joe T

Joe T

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My first go at garden birdies. Taken with 120-300 2.8 with 1.4 TC.

1/320, f4, iso 640

Hope you like. :)
 
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Much better !!
Remove the noise from the background and it'll be a decent photo.

The sharpness is good considering the lens is wide open with the convertor and the shutter speed less the focal length.
 
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SDK^ said:
Much better !!
Remove the noise from the background and it'll be a decent photo.

The sharpness is good considering the lens is wide open with the convertor and the shutter speed less the focal length.
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Cheers, will probably try that.

Yeah, the lens isnt bad. Still too short even with TC for this kind of work. This shot is a fairly heavy crop.

I did use a monopod too. :)
 
Joe T said:
Yeah, the lens isnt bad. Still too short even with TC for this kind of work. This shot is a fairly heavy crop.

I did use a monopod too. :)
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Too short - pffft !!! :)
I've done a few birds shots without the TC and it was long enough for me .

Which monopod are you using?
 
SDK^ said:
Too short - pffft !!! :)
I've done a few birds shots without the TC and it was long enough for me .

Which monopod are you using?
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Garden birds are pretty small! I was only a few metres away from these guys.

Giottos P-Pod - model MM5570, is what I am using. Its a little heavy, but very sturdy. I had a problem once when the tripod bolt became unscrewed from the built-in QR plate. The lens promptly fell off the monopod, damaging both the lens hood (bent) and the tripod foot (half a screw thread gone). Other than that, its great!
 
I have found it's possible to crop images a lot and still keep sharpness and quality.
I've also been looking at Giottos monopods :)
 
What aboutrotating the image slightly Joe to get the stand the bird is on perfectly horizontal? Just a thought, but apart from that very nice - particularly like the blowout background.
 
Cheers Tom. I had already rotated it quite a bit, but I agree a little more would help!
 
Hi Joe, had play - I hope you don't mind. Cloned the image into two layers, applied a Gaussian Blur to the top layer and then used a soft brush to erase over the bird and the feeder and pushed up the saturation and contrast a bit. Then cropped.

It's a great photo - living in the middle of the city I don't get anything but randy pigeons on my window sill - lucky me :D

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