[PIC_THREAD] Wildlife, Animals, Birds, Zoo

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Kestrel, Richmond Park this afternoon. She approached us carrying a newly killed shrew which she then cached under a thick fallen branch, I didn't know they did that.

I wasn't in the right position to get a shot of that but she then perched herslf on various logs and posed for us, she came very close at one point, almost to my mfd!
 
footman said:

Kestrel, Richmond Park this afternoon. She approached us carrying a newly killed shrew which she then cached under a thick fallen branch, I didn't know they did that.

I wasn't in the right position to get a shot of that but she then perched herslf on various logs and posed for us, she came very close at one point, almost to my mfd![/QUOTE]

Lovely shots. What did you use to capture those?
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Cosimo said:
Lovely shots. What did you use to capture those?
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Thanks.
I used an Olympus E-M1 with the 300mm F4 Pro lens and a 1.4x TC.
ISO640 1/1000 sec @f5.6.
I don't intend to strip out the exif but the way I post shots that's what happens!

I'm not utterly convinced in that combo for wildlife, birds in particular. The lens is brilliant but the body is useless for tracking. I have problems with single AF when contrast is even slightly less than optimal due to sunlight for instance.
 
^ good bright shots bonzo, what gear/settings?

Female mallard by mack100, on Flickr

Male mallard by mack100, on Flickr

Gull by mack100, on Flickr




First outing with 1DX and Sigma 150-600C.
The duck shots were at 4000 ISO, as far as I'm concerned that's insanely high!
What amazes me with the female mallard shot I didn't have to apply any NR in pp, must be the sensor, certainly not me!

As far as the gull shot goes, I was amazed to actually see a bird in the viewfinder.
 
Nice shots yourself, footman !

Ok.. the above Whitethroat male i shot was taken with Nikon D610 FF, and Tamron 150-600mm, a lens more or less on par with your Contempary Sigma

1/1250th / F8 / Ap Priority / 550mm FL / ISO 800 / No flash / Hand held
 
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footman said:
First outing with 1DX and Sigma 150-600C.
The duck shots were at 4000 ISO, as far as I'm concerned that's insanely high!
What amazes me with the female mallard shot I didn't have to apply any NR in pp, must be the sensor, certainly not me!
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I'd imagine you can go much higher too, it's amazing what new gear is capable of!
I was with a Nikon trainer the other day and told him that I didn't risk going above 2000 on my D500 and he said I can easily go up to 51200 in certain circumstances.
I thought I'd have a play and these are 7200 & 9000 respectively, they are noisy of course but I'd imagine it's not something that couldn't be corrected -

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