Tord
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Really looking fwd seeing some pictures taken with the new scope...Just back from Hungary with 847+ pictures to sort through! Should be a couple of keepers...
Tomorrow......
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DanC.Licks
AKA Daniel Bradley
Unfortunatly the air was quite bad. Very windy for two days and warm and hazy for the third. Still got some things though, but nothing knock-out sharp. We'll see...
DanC.Licks
AKA Daniel Bradley
First sample:
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JGobeil
Nature Photographer
Wow !
DanC.Licks
AKA Daniel Bradley
Mostly I had this kind of air to deal with. 50 meters of this stuff and I might as well have been usind an Aldi special!
JGobeil
Nature Photographer
Mostly I had this kind of air to deal with. 50 meters of this stuff and I might as well have been usind an Aldi special!
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Nice shot Dan. Your photo illustrates well how narrow the depth of field is on our scopes. We clearly see the focus degrade slowly on the wing.
Regards
Jules
DanC.Licks
AKA Daniel Bradley
There is also more movement in that part of the wings when the hover, as these guys were doing. Fresh batch of little frogs on the ground.
Tord
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Some samples with new scope
My new scope (TS102/700 FPL53 triplet) was delivered to me yesterday. (I will review it and share my experience in the setup section later).
In the meantime, some samples attached. I believe it has potential, considering the distance is 50-100+ meters.
What do you think? I personally like the color rendering.
My new scope (TS102/700 FPL53 triplet) was delivered to me yesterday. (I will review it and share my experience in the setup section later).
In the meantime, some samples attached. I believe it has potential, considering the distance is 50-100+ meters.
What do you think? I personally like the color rendering.
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DanC.Licks
AKA Daniel Bradley
These are what I would expect from that scope. I also find that the contrast and color is better in my new triplet. Looks like you had some nice light and good air! Still lots going on there. Where did you take these.
I think you are going to like this scope and I would be very surprised if you do much more with your SW. Great scope for the money, though. I will definitely sell mine as my 90/600 is a direct replacement. Yours is a little different, but not that much.
I think you are going to like this scope and I would be very surprised if you do much more with your SW. Great scope for the money, though. I will definitely sell mine as my 90/600 is a direct replacement. Yours is a little different, but not that much.
Tord
Well-known member
Light was great after fog/mist had dissipated, air was good up until late morning. Yes there is still action going on here although most migrants are gone. The Cormorants are from Krankesjön. For some reason I cannot explain, that place held only few birds today. After waiting in vain for more action I instead relocated to Näsbyholm. Map: http://skof.se/lok/index.php
morning sunrise lakeside
couldn't resist the Fall color cast on the lake near my home on Long Island. Here were a couple of keepers. Stellarvue 80mm f/7 + GSO 2x barlow + Olympus e-510 (iso 400, exp 1/1000 sec). Swans were around 100 ft out-slight crop. The blue heron made a surprise showing on the opposite bank just as I was packing up to leave. I was hoping to snap him with a minnow, but it never happened.
couldn't resist the Fall color cast on the lake near my home on Long Island. Here were a couple of keepers. Stellarvue 80mm f/7 + GSO 2x barlow + Olympus e-510 (iso 400, exp 1/1000 sec). Swans were around 100 ft out-slight crop. The blue heron made a surprise showing on the opposite bank just as I was packing up to leave. I was hoping to snap him with a minnow, but it never happened.
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Tord
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Hi,
I suppose you mean the flight pictures, not in general/static objects?
For flight pictures it depends on a few factors.
- Motion pattern predictabilty, some species e.g. Geese are easy since they tend to follow a set trajectory, whereas others e.g. Terns follow an erratic pattern, resulting in quite many out of frame.
- Distance to subject. From experience the optimal distance is 25-50 meters, tradeoff between depth of field and detail
- Angle of flight. Fly-in is much more difficult than fly by as you will have to exercise quite pronounced re-focus, decreasing the likelihood of sharpness
- Cleanless of background. Against sky and flat water surface is easiest, background vegetation is much more difficult since it is difficult for your brain to filter away all the information and assess what exactly is in focus.
When factors converge, also having enough time to anticipate the action I would say I get 50% probability or more of at least one good shot from typically a burst of 4-5 pictures shot while refocusing. And with maybe 25% probability the best shot in the sequence will be almost as good as if I had time to focus and frame the same object in static pose.
I delete all unsharp pictures in camera or first thing after loading in the computer and keep only the best picture in a sequence so I don't have statistics to rely on though.
So the bottom line is maybe in the range 10%.
DanC.Licks
AKA Daniel Bradley
10% is realistic. Fortunately, film is cheap these days!
Paul Corfield
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I'd say my accuracy is around 80% or more for anything that isn't flying and accuracy for birds in flight varies depending on the subject. Generally the bigger the bird then the more predictable the flight pattern is. I probably only keep less than 1% of what I shoot because I only keep the very best poses. Plus a lot of what I shoot is for lens experimentation.
Paul.
Paul.
JGobeil
Nature Photographer
Splish Splash, I was taking a bath...
A good portion of a successful photo is often luck. It happened to me yesterday.
While photographing shore birds in Mongmagny, 100 km east of Quebec City, a Greater Yellowlegs decided it was time for a bath right in front of me. The camera and scope were ready since I was photographing other birds close by so I quickly focused and took a burst of photos - luckily, the focus is perfect.
The last wader is a scarce Stilt Sandpiper, a first for me.
A good day indeed !
Distance 12-15 m.
ISO 400
1/1250 s.
1.5X TN
SW80ED
Oly OM-D
A good portion of a successful photo is often luck. It happened to me yesterday.
While photographing shore birds in Mongmagny, 100 km east of Quebec City, a Greater Yellowlegs decided it was time for a bath right in front of me. The camera and scope were ready since I was photographing other birds close by so I quickly focused and took a burst of photos - luckily, the focus is perfect.
The last wader is a scarce Stilt Sandpiper, a first for me.
A good day indeed !
Distance 12-15 m.
ISO 400
1/1250 s.
1.5X TN
SW80ED
Oly OM-D
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Great series Jules!
