Great captures. Did you by any chance use Pre-Burst?

It seems the birds are more accommodating when the light is bad, but what the hey.

Good Morning. This is the captain speaking. Welcome aboard Tufted T. Airlines.

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We are completing our pre-flight routine and will be under way shortly.


We are rolling and our tail is up.

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We have lift-off.


Our stewardesses are here to serve you. Settle back and enjoy the flight.

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Thank you for flying Tufted T. Airlines.

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Very nice set. I especially enjoyed Bishop's Castle and Crystal Mill. We come from Arkansas to visit my wife's sister in Pueblo and we have been to Bishop's Castle a couple times. Interesting place.

Camera: Panasonic GX85
Lens: G Vario 3.5-5.6/14-140
Shooting in Pre-Burst it records 30 frames. You can select a single frame to save or save all 30 as an MP4 movie and select/save a single frame on the computer. I did it on the computer and the exif showed only the pixel dimensions. I'm guessing the focal length was around 30 and the f-stop around 4.4. It was heavily cropped. Focus was manual at where I thought the bird would be when it left the feeder. (I tried this once before and auto-focus didn't work so I didn't try it this time. After I had done this I remembered it didn't work because I was shooting through a screen. I'll use AF next time.) Thanks for asking this. I wasn't asking for help. Just commenting that I was not trying to get a perfect shot, just trying out the Pre-Burst feature.

First... Shutter speed too slow, motion blur, focus not spot-on, very noisy. I know this already so don't beat me up. I was trying the 4k Pre-Burst feature and captured this Goldfinch. Cropped, resized and background blurred in Photoshop Elements.

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You compose very well.

You and I must be twins. Same age, same attitude.

It is just one bird that was photographed twice before it flew away. It is a Brown Thrasher.

LOL!

Very nice set.

A beautiful day to be out and a beautiful day to be holding a camera.

Thanks for the thumbs-up.

Yes. One Brown Thrasher. It's one bird photographed twice and the two pictures composited. Look carefully at the branches beneath the two birds and you'll see the similarity.

I have two birds in the bush I am offering as an even swap for one in the hand.

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This was great. It was so nice to hear someone singing a song I know in a key that so closely matched my comfortable range. We sounded great together! Actually, she sounded great and I just sounded.