terrybennett
Saturday 28th June 2003, 22:03
Hi,
I have been planting native shrubs and flowers in the hope of encouraging insect eating birds as well as the usual seed eating ones into the garden. In the first year I have been fortunate enough to have a pair of spotted flycatchers using a nest box I have put up.
I would like to build up a photographic record of the birds I have managed to attract to the garden and this is the first attempt at doing so.
As I haven't got all my digiscoping equipment yet, I used a Minolta Dimage 5, set at maximum zoom and aperture priority, mounted on a tripod and operated by a remote release. The weather was sunny.
I used some meal worms to lure the bird to the bird table and took about a dozen photographs, but as one had to predetermine where it may actually land only about three photographs had the whole of the bird in. The attached is probably the best result as it is the only one with a highlight in the eye, which tended to make the others look a bit "dead".
Photoshop Elements was used to crop and slightly sharpen the final image.
I have been planting native shrubs and flowers in the hope of encouraging insect eating birds as well as the usual seed eating ones into the garden. In the first year I have been fortunate enough to have a pair of spotted flycatchers using a nest box I have put up.
I would like to build up a photographic record of the birds I have managed to attract to the garden and this is the first attempt at doing so.
As I haven't got all my digiscoping equipment yet, I used a Minolta Dimage 5, set at maximum zoom and aperture priority, mounted on a tripod and operated by a remote release. The weather was sunny.
I used some meal worms to lure the bird to the bird table and took about a dozen photographs, but as one had to predetermine where it may actually land only about three photographs had the whole of the bird in. The attached is probably the best result as it is the only one with a highlight in the eye, which tended to make the others look a bit "dead".
Photoshop Elements was used to crop and slightly sharpen the final image.