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Hmmm well it's very wild and free but image is taken with me esconced in me front doorway. Lying on a load of cushions (ACTUALLY LOTS AND LOTS shhhhh) with a tea table in front of me with my new mini tripod ( cheers Phil and Steve actually) and gimbal thingy (cheers rob) ,so frankly i'm being a lady of leasure and clobbering the goldies on our feeders erm ish.
We've always had them here gorgeous things to live with, that song, their stunning beauty those wing bars.But never had them on the feeders and I've never really made an effort. So as time and energy levels are a bit condensed I thought i'd have a play with what is under me damn nose. We got a niger feeder and shed load of grub,that helped it took them somewhere around three days to find it and start stuffing themselves then I basically for hours and hours i've just lazed around like a slob on a shed load of cushions. This wildlife photography lark is hard core guys. There are mad folks here who scrubble about on rocks and stuff trying to get images cushions are good As said slow learner
Serious head on then: day one first crack i'm not the sharpest tool in the box a few hours later the start of the pennies dropping.......teasels were needed,the walk gave me some time to muse............. alot of food about right now two fold thoughts..... alot of stuff for props and the thought of if I can get them really used to me what might later in the year bring when things are a bit trickier for them,we have at least seven already.
My gaff faces north/ south ish feeders are north side so most of the day in shade early morns till 10 might be good but very early light will be largely scuppered by direction and trees. I was in bad shape monday mended now some bug ouch !! so made the effort to try most of the day, once I'd stopped sleeping. Really i'm just trying to break a few barriers down they are jumpy but the hours have meant they are already fairly happy at around 4/5M me snapping away door open nothing but camera etc in front/ amount of light i've been under so far has been pretty much useless. I won't use flash so am an open book to thoughts i've already mused nonsense like reflectors all manner of stuff,
Mainly this is a bit of fun a way to grab a few mins with camera,but the subject is a stunner,I have some "what could have been" image history with this little bird.Well close enough to be able to see something I'd like to capture . If I can get enough dof and Ss the little dream i'm chasing is a spat. nowt much two birds( maybe only one i'd settle for that )in the air shouting at each other. My reality is a bird on a stick is a wicked little start. so here ya go onech item
Canon 1Div 300f2.8 is ext iii 1.4 1/640 f5.6 iso 5000 pushed iso to 6400 today for an hour not sure how much further I can go with her (camera). Guys blowing white is going to be easy on these little ones,so most of the images being shaded is in some ways a blessing. But I need more of something least ways I feel I do. Maybe this actual site will change I dunno just a bit of a crack and a type of practice really
image processed in dpp4
This whole little bit of fun is slightly weird it's like domesticated wildlife image making and I suppose a set up where as normally I bumble about in fields with hares and deer bla de bla.. so I guess part of the meander in this post is do the images look contrived?? Frankly i'm not terribly fused more curious as to anothers point of view. Second any thoughts muses improvements crit all welcome
tis already good fun and where ever this goes i'm learning much. It's been funny they would leave I'd get up prune something the sods keep coming to the feeders through a morello cherry i've almost tunneled little paths in it and the roses to clear the spots. they frequent..seceteurs are an important tool for us
_70F7360 by Stuart Philpott, on Flickr
cheers for all the help here guys
seeya
stu
We've always had them here gorgeous things to live with, that song, their stunning beauty those wing bars.But never had them on the feeders and I've never really made an effort. So as time and energy levels are a bit condensed I thought i'd have a play with what is under me damn nose. We got a niger feeder and shed load of grub,that helped it took them somewhere around three days to find it and start stuffing themselves then I basically for hours and hours i've just lazed around like a slob on a shed load of cushions. This wildlife photography lark is hard core guys. There are mad folks here who scrubble about on rocks and stuff trying to get images cushions are good As said slow learner
Serious head on then: day one first crack i'm not the sharpest tool in the box a few hours later the start of the pennies dropping.......teasels were needed,the walk gave me some time to muse............. alot of food about right now two fold thoughts..... alot of stuff for props and the thought of if I can get them really used to me what might later in the year bring when things are a bit trickier for them,we have at least seven already.
My gaff faces north/ south ish feeders are north side so most of the day in shade early morns till 10 might be good but very early light will be largely scuppered by direction and trees. I was in bad shape monday mended now some bug ouch !! so made the effort to try most of the day, once I'd stopped sleeping. Really i'm just trying to break a few barriers down they are jumpy but the hours have meant they are already fairly happy at around 4/5M me snapping away door open nothing but camera etc in front/ amount of light i've been under so far has been pretty much useless. I won't use flash so am an open book to thoughts i've already mused nonsense like reflectors all manner of stuff,
Mainly this is a bit of fun a way to grab a few mins with camera,but the subject is a stunner,I have some "what could have been" image history with this little bird.Well close enough to be able to see something I'd like to capture . If I can get enough dof and Ss the little dream i'm chasing is a spat. nowt much two birds( maybe only one i'd settle for that )in the air shouting at each other. My reality is a bird on a stick is a wicked little start. so here ya go onech item
Canon 1Div 300f2.8 is ext iii 1.4 1/640 f5.6 iso 5000 pushed iso to 6400 today for an hour not sure how much further I can go with her (camera). Guys blowing white is going to be easy on these little ones,so most of the images being shaded is in some ways a blessing. But I need more of something least ways I feel I do. Maybe this actual site will change I dunno just a bit of a crack and a type of practice really
image processed in dpp4
This whole little bit of fun is slightly weird it's like domesticated wildlife image making and I suppose a set up where as normally I bumble about in fields with hares and deer bla de bla.. so I guess part of the meander in this post is do the images look contrived?? Frankly i'm not terribly fused more curious as to anothers point of view. Second any thoughts muses improvements crit all welcome
tis already good fun and where ever this goes i'm learning much. It's been funny they would leave I'd get up prune something the sods keep coming to the feeders through a morello cherry i've almost tunneled little paths in it and the roses to clear the spots. they frequent..seceteurs are an important tool for us
_70F7360 by Stuart Philpott, on Flickr
cheers for all the help here guys
seeya
stu