[Peter Galbavy]

Another forum, another introduction...

Hi all. As I mentioned in another thread that I replied in before posting here, I am more of a keen nature photographer than a birder, but there is a great deal of cross-over for both.

I am lucky in that I curently work from home, so I can wonder outside whenever the conditions work for me. Behind my house is a park (Dollis Brook) and there is a tremendous amount of bird life, and I have only started noticing it since getting more into the photography.

My target this spring is to get some good closeup shots of the common nesting birds - I have some starters from last year at http://photasmagoria.com/gallery/nature/5ab180a97319 - these were taken just after acquiring my 400mm f/2.8L from a football photographer. Heavy bugger. I am also lucky enough, as I mentioned elsewhere, to have finally found the much-rumoured local Kingfisher(s) - but they are such fast birds...

Finally, I am also trying to learn more about video work, so have bought myself a mid-range miniDV camera. After next weeks Focus on Imaging show, I hope to have found a descent telephot adaptor for it, and we will see what I get. I have got some blurred KF clips, but not quite close enough to be very interesting :-8

Anyhow, more later I am sure.

[digi-birder]

Hi again Peter. I have officially welcomed you on another thread, but have just had a look at your website and your photos are very good. I can't see any mention of which camera you use, unless I'm looking in the wrong place!

I am also going to the NEC exhibition, on Sunday.

[Peter Galbavy]

Originally Posted by digi-birder

Hi again Peter. I have officially welcomed you on another thread, but have just had a look at your website and your photos are very good. I can't see any mention of which camera you use, unless I'm looking in the wrong place!

I am also going to the NEC exhibition, on Sunday.

If you are using IE then the ALT tag on each image will give you details, else there is an 'i' (for information) button under each image that toggles the display of the shot details.

To save time, the general camera is a D60 - which is currently giving some grief, so I am trying to justify a new 1D MkII (no money yet). Attached is an aggressive 1:1 crop of my best attempt from the weekend :-) Not very sharp, but at that scale, it's not too bad. Given the full sized image is 3072x2048, this almost works...

If Sunday wasn't such a cattle market (and my normal-work-week friends are going) I would suggest a coffee :-)

[digi-birder]

Cheers Peter, I am not that observant today, due to a bit of a muzzy head.

A friend of mine has taken some amazing shots of Kingfishers at a local reserve. He had some great pics with his digiscoping setup and he now has the 10D, which I have also just acquired and am busy learning to use.

I imagined that the exhibition may be rather packed on Sunday. I'm not looking for anything in particular - just thought we'd go along to see what it was all about.