Yesterday, I was playing with the camera I got a few days ago, with lenses from my old 35mm film camera (Canon 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6, Tamron 80-210mm f/4.5-5.6, Bower 500mm catadioptric manual focus and fixed aperture) on it, to see how it would do.
The colours look pale and washed out; maybe the shots were overexposed, and then processed in-camera to give these washed out JPEG images. I mildly tweaked them in Gimp to sharpen them a bit and to improve the contrast.
This starling has figured out that he can stand in the centre of the feeder and peck at what is at his feet. The magpies haven't figured that out yet, and try to hand upside down (and they fail).
This male great spotted woodpecker was jogging up and down the tree, occasionally coming to the feeder for a peck at the fat balls
But the most frequent visitors are tits. This day, mostly a pair of long-tailed tits, and a few other species that didn't manage to snap.
The camera was about 14.5 metres away from the tree, manually focussed; AV mode with the aperture as wide as possible, leaving the camera to set the ISO and shutter speed... Blustery wind was shaking the feeder around, and some gusts gave the tripod a bit of a shake, too.
The colours look pale and washed out; maybe the shots were overexposed, and then processed in-camera to give these washed out JPEG images. I mildly tweaked them in Gimp to sharpen them a bit and to improve the contrast.
This starling has figured out that he can stand in the centre of the feeder and peck at what is at his feet. The magpies haven't figured that out yet, and try to hand upside down (and they fail).
This male great spotted woodpecker was jogging up and down the tree, occasionally coming to the feeder for a peck at the fat balls
But the most frequent visitors are tits. This day, mostly a pair of long-tailed tits, and a few other species that didn't manage to snap.
The camera was about 14.5 metres away from the tree, manually focussed; AV mode with the aperture as wide as possible, leaving the camera to set the ISO and shutter speed... Blustery wind was shaking the feeder around, and some gusts gave the tripod a bit of a shake, too.
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