Sunset birds

saddler · 29 Jan 2006 at 01:22

Another attempt at shooting birds on feeder though my window with the 18-50 f2.8 Sigma. This time I shot at sunset to reduce the glare and produce some warmer colours.

Any comments or suggestions welcome

John

Richard T · 29 Jan 2006 at 11:06

great shots John

Did you have to turn in to a statue to not spook them?

Gamefreak501 · 29 Jan 2006 at 12:01

Fantastic shots, nice warm colours and great exposure too

saddler · 29 Jan 2006 at 12:26

Ashtray_head, I used a remote shutter release cable and hid behind a curtain so it was just a matter of the birds getting used to the camera in the window.

Sleepyd · 29 Jan 2006 at 12:33

Hope you don't mind but I had a quick play by putting it through noiseware -what do you think?

hoodmeister · 29 Jan 2006 at 12:40

Personally I don't see a lot of point in noise filtering, unless levels are pretty high.
yes there's noise in the original shot, but it's not too obstrusive or destracting. Noise filtering just blows out detail in the plumage :/

Colin_da_Killer · 29 Jan 2006 at 13:02

hoodmeister said:
Personally I don't see a lot of point in noise filtering, unless levels are pretty high.
yes there's noise in the original shot, but it's not too obstrusive or destracting. Noise filtering just blows out detail in the plumage :/

I think in this example the noise fitlering made a huge difference!

Nice photos there, I need to set up the bird feeder in the garden, except the win keeps blowing it down.

Richard T · 29 Jan 2006 at 15:52

saddler said:
Ashtray_head, I used a remote shutter release cable and hid behind a curtain so it was just a matter of the birds getting used to the camera in the window.

ah right...

Am still waiting for my 300is lens to get some good close bird shots!