Nuthatch

Bit of a 'species id' type of shot - this little fellow turned up on my squirrel 'posing log'.

I'm having a ball with my rejuvenated big glass and this D300 doing 8fps

Using the AF fine-tune the RAWs are so bloomin sharp

D300
Sig 300-800
ISO 400
1/400 @ f7.1 -0.7EV

PP in Bibble Pro and down-sized in CS3 with GenFrac.

Thanks for looking as always

That's one sweet log Andy:) Bird is also very nice and the light is nice and warm. Having any luck on the Squirrels?

Edwin

A nice pose this Andy, with the background and bird colur matching its a bit overpowering??

Hi Andy , very good shot , very sharp with loads of detail and a superb BG

Regards

Andy...

Thanks Edwin - yes, I had a proper 'posser' turn up this afternoon http://www.wildlifeinpixels.com/img/DSC3115.jpg

Tiffs look better - I'm noticing that images worked in Bibble tend to lose a bit of 'punch' when compressed and coverted to sRGB - unless I'm doing something wrong, which ain't exactly out of the question

Gosh its not upside down, typical pose but I feel the 'silver birch' perch should be vertical(ish).... am I making sense?

wish we saw more of these in the south east....

Hi Andy,

Great shot mate!!!! I agree with Phil i just want the chance to photograph one

Nice clean image,cant ask for much more.Bg is cool in orange.

Stu.

Hey up Andy that's a tad soft, need to sharpen up a bit.
Nice one

Tim

That's one nice looking Grey. They are very close, aren't they?

Edwin Kats

Hi Andy,

Lovely capture! Cracking pose despite that he isn’t upside down.

Nice one Andy, is the lens wheeled out on a track like one of the old WW1 guns, LOL

Steve

It certainly is Steve - and I always dig it it and build a sandbag emplacement

It has it's own trailer to go behind the car aswell

Good pose and superb background colors!!
Wonderfull

grtz,
Sam

Nice shot andy, no nits from me, howis the 800 now?

Absolutely stunning Paul - it's not my old lens, it's a new freshly imported model straight from Kanagawa, and Sig UK's service department spent most of Wednesday and Thursday calibrating it to a D40 - doesn't say much for Japans QC does it?!

It still front-focusses a tiny bit on the D300, but running the AF fine tune at +6 for subjects like geese and +7 for the small stuff close-in, the raws are tack sharp.

Focus plane seems fine on the D2Xs, a lot better the the D300 with no AF tunning.

I know Phillip is using his D300/800 prime combo with some -ve AF tuning but not as much as me - whether that's a difference between the 800 prime and the 300-800, or it's a difference in D300 bodies or user setup I don't know.

Thank for enquiring matey

Very nice work, great BG

Hi Andy

Agree it could do with a little more USM - great light although I do feel a different BG colour would have set it off better!

David

Great picture, with nice and warm colours

I suppose with that 800 you don't have to get out of bed to get the shots now.
Nice pic by the way.
Eric