Young Black Phoebe With Addition
Dec 30, 2021 22:21:47 #
With the rain I am going over pictures I took in the last few months to see what I overlooked. This young (all the brown that will turn black later) Black Phoebe appeared in my yard several times around the end of October and start of November with some kind of fiber/line caught in its feathers (here seen on Oct 31). The same young bird has been coming back to look for insects around the pool but some where it managed to get rid of the line.
It is perched on the cut off pole that was part of the old pool slide. When the new slide was put up at the other end of the pool I cut off and cut up for disposal the old fiberglass slide and then my knee started acting up so I couldn't get down to chip the legs or the mount for the ladder out of the concrete of the pool deck. (Well I could get down, but not back up.) Then birds started using the poles and the ladder for perches so I left them. The wife has started hinting that after two years I should either chip them out or pay someone to do it. It has been on my "to do" list, honest!
Canon 90D, Tamron 150-600 G2 @ 600, 1/1000 @ f/6.3, ISO-1600
from a tripod with High Speed Sync Fill Flash at about 30 feet. That f/6.3 produces a very shallow DOF so the yard, bird feeder & water dish and wall behind it are just nice soft pastel blurs.
I just got some updates to Topaz Denoise and Sharpen AI so I ran the image though those and tweaked the colors just a bit towards warm.
Just saw him back with a mob different kinds of finches and sparrows feeding during a light spell in the rain. But by the time I got the camera ready and slid the glass door open it was gone.
It is perched on the cut off pole that was part of the old pool slide. When the new slide was put up at the other end of the pool I cut off and cut up for disposal the old fiberglass slide and then my knee started acting up so I couldn't get down to chip the legs or the mount for the ladder out of the concrete of the pool deck. (Well I could get down, but not back up.) Then birds started using the poles and the ladder for perches so I left them. The wife has started hinting that after two years I should either chip them out or pay someone to do it. It has been on my "to do" list, honest!
Canon 90D, Tamron 150-600 G2 @ 600, 1/1000 @ f/6.3, ISO-1600
from a tripod with High Speed Sync Fill Flash at about 30 feet. That f/6.3 produces a very shallow DOF so the yard, bird feeder & water dish and wall behind it are just nice soft pastel blurs.
I just got some updates to Topaz Denoise and Sharpen AI so I ran the image though those and tweaked the colors just a bit towards warm.
Just saw him back with a mob different kinds of finches and sparrows feeding during a light spell in the rain. But by the time I got the camera ready and slid the glass door open it was gone.
Dec 30, 2021 23:19:45 #
Dec 31, 2021 00:35:51 #
Jan 1, 2022 02:43:46 #
Jan 1, 2022 16:56:45 #
Birdbrain2020 wrote:
Nice pic. But I am curious, is it normal to call a photo at 600 mm ‘close up’?
To me "close up" is the view you get of the subject, doesn't matter if you use a 10 mm at 3 inches or a 600 mm at 30 feet.
Like these two versions from the same frame. One is a close up and one isn't.
Canon 90D, Tamron 150-600 @ 600, 1/640 @ f/9.0, ISO-2000
off tripod at aprx. 32' with HSS fill flash because of the low angle Dec sun back lighting the subject
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