Having a spot of tea

ArkAngel

Native
May 16, 2006
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One of these days one of these damn birds will land near to me at a sensible distance and hour with good light conditions so i am not trying to keep a 750mm lens steady and having to use 3200ISO to get a reasonable shutter speed!!!

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shaggystu

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Nov 10, 2003
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One of these days one of these damn birds will land near to me at a sensible distance....

i feel compelled to ask.....what was the "not sensible" distance that these photos were taken at?

love the top one by the way, the mouldy old fence post/bit of wire/bird of prey combination is right up there with the best of the wildlife photo's IMO. top work chap
 

ArkAngel

Native
May 16, 2006
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North Yorkshire
The fencepost is a telegraph pole, this was shot from my upstairs bedroom window.

Distance?.....probably about 70metres. Using my Nikon D300 and sigma 120-500mm lens with the crop factor of the smaller sensor it makes the lens a 750mm. and it was quite a tight crop from the image hence the loss of quality

I'm just being picky, obviously i would prefer they land about 5metres away and in nice bright light. Standard photography stuff, i'm never happy with the result!!
 
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Beansprout

Tenderfoot
Gorgeous photo. Very jealous of your 500mm lens... I have a 200 on my D40, I can just about get the birds in my back garden from my sofa :D Trying to photograph seagulls flying in the wind is another challenge I quite like. You were lucky enough to have a poser though! Nice one :D
 

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