Bird Photography
Dec 21, 2016 08:41:11 #
A Black Capped Chickadee in Camden, Maine.
Am interested in bird photography and trying to get the "best" detailed bird photos.
This was taken with a Nikon D800e and a Tamron 150-600mm lens @600mm hand held. 1/1000sec - F/11 auto Iso at 2400.
Used Topaz DeNoise .
Interested in seeing some other results and how you achieved them.
Thanks.
Am interested in bird photography and trying to get the "best" detailed bird photos.
This was taken with a Nikon D800e and a Tamron 150-600mm lens @600mm hand held. 1/1000sec - F/11 auto Iso at 2400.
Used Topaz DeNoise .
Interested in seeing some other results and how you achieved them.
Thanks.
Dec 21, 2016 09:13:21 #
Bird photography usually requires a higher ISO setting to achieve a fast enough shutter speed to freeze the subject. I cannot tell under which weather and lighting conditions you made this beautiful photograph but wonder if indeed you had to use ISO 2400. The f11 aperture is not usually set to photograph birds while f5.6 and f8 are more often used. Depth of field is not that important unless showing the environment. At the distance shot usually there is a good depth of field to enhance the photograph.
I usually use a crop body with the 70-300 VR or the old 80-400 VR on my visits to the Everglades National Park. I find, due to the close proximity of my subjects, that the 70-300 VR is usually all I need. The 80-400 VR is a great lens but it is heavy as hell and at times inconvenient.
This gray blue heron, photographed at the Everglades, was shot at around f4 using the heavy lens. ISO was set to 400, camera hanheld with VR in lens on. I simply waited till the bird began to fish.
You did a good job with the Chickadee. The camera used was the Nikon D300.
I usually use a crop body with the 70-300 VR or the old 80-400 VR on my visits to the Everglades National Park. I find, due to the close proximity of my subjects, that the 70-300 VR is usually all I need. The 80-400 VR is a great lens but it is heavy as hell and at times inconvenient.
This gray blue heron, photographed at the Everglades, was shot at around f4 using the heavy lens. ISO was set to 400, camera hanheld with VR in lens on. I simply waited till the bird began to fish.
You did a good job with the Chickadee. The camera used was the Nikon D300.
Dec 21, 2016 09:17:25 #
Shot with a Nikon D7200 and the Tamron 150-600 G2 420mm at 1/200 @ f11 ISO 320 hand held
Dec 21, 2016 10:06:36 #
Dec 21, 2016 10:27:45 #
Dec 21, 2016 10:54:02 #
Dec 21, 2016 12:46:38 #
Thanks for your comments and the really nice Heron photo.
The lighting was an overcast day. The lens I'm using seems to have a pretty shallow DOF at f/5.6 or even f/8.(I have the Nikkor 300mm f/4 VR with a 1.4X converter that does a better with the depth of field but of course it's no as long) At 600mm with the Tamron I have some photos with the bird's eye in focus and the tail out of focus. The high ISO noise is handled pretty well by the Topaz DeNoise program. I cropped that image and added a little sharpening in Photoshop Raw....Again, thanks for your comments...much appreciated.
The lighting was an overcast day. The lens I'm using seems to have a pretty shallow DOF at f/5.6 or even f/8.(I have the Nikkor 300mm f/4 VR with a 1.4X converter that does a better with the depth of field but of course it's no as long) At 600mm with the Tamron I have some photos with the bird's eye in focus and the tail out of focus. The high ISO noise is handled pretty well by the Topaz DeNoise program. I cropped that image and added a little sharpening in Photoshop Raw....Again, thanks for your comments...much appreciated.
camerapapi wrote:
Bird photography usually requires a higher ISO set... (show quote)
Dec 21, 2016 12:50:22 #
Very nice. I'm using the same lens and just ordered the 1.4X teleconverter.
Ira wrote:
Shot with a Nikon D7200 and the Tamron 150-600 G2 420mm at 1/200 @ f11 ISO 320 hand held
Dec 21, 2016 12:51:30 #
Dec 21, 2016 13:27:29 #
Love the green Heron, and the Great Blue. The river, creek, whatever it is, that runs past where I work has several Great Blue and Green Herons fishing in it. Always fun to go down to the river bank at lunch time and find some birds to photograph.
These two photos are of two of my free range pets. These Blue Jays were photographed on the same cloudy snowy day. The first one was well lit by ambient sunlight. The second photo, taken in shaded indirect light, shows the Jay closer to its actual natural color, which isn't blue at all as there is no blue pigment in a Blue Jay's feathers. Blue Jay feathers are white, grey and black. Light refracting through the feathers makes the Jay appear Blue.
These two photos are of two of my free range pets. These Blue Jays were photographed on the same cloudy snowy day. The first one was well lit by ambient sunlight. The second photo, taken in shaded indirect light, shows the Jay closer to its actual natural color, which isn't blue at all as there is no blue pigment in a Blue Jay's feathers. Blue Jay feathers are white, grey and black. Light refracting through the feathers makes the Jay appear Blue.
Dec 21, 2016 13:58:00 #
Bird photography requires a lot of practice and much trial and error. To me, That's what makes it interesting and fun.
Dec 22, 2016 05:58:48 #
A lovely sharp shot. I'm interested to know why you chose f11. If you had widened the aperture you could have halved your iso (less noise) and still kept your shutter speed at 1000.
Dec 22, 2016 07:24:19 #
Love the Tamron 150-600
Dec 22, 2016 07:52:22 #
Nice shot Ira. I think we both took a photo or two of that heron
Mark: No secrets. Try to get as close as you) can and Practice, Practice and Practice some more.
Mark: No secrets. Try to get as close as you) can and Practice, Practice and Practice some more.
Dec 22, 2016 09:00:05 #
Mark W wrote:
A Black Capped Chickadee in Camden, Maine.
Am interested in bird photography and trying to get the "best" detailed bird photos.
This was taken with a Nikon D800e and a Tamron 150-600mm lens @600mm hand held. 1/1000sec - F/11 auto Iso at 2400.
Used Topaz DeNoise .
Interested in seeing some other results and how you achieved them.
Thanks.
Am interested in bird photography and trying to get the "best" detailed bird photos.
This was taken with a Nikon D800e and a Tamron 150-600mm lens @600mm hand held. 1/1000sec - F/11 auto Iso at 2400.
Used Topaz DeNoise .
Interested in seeing some other results and how you achieved them.
Thanks.
Very nice and beautiful detail. Work very well done....Rich
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