Tree Creepers
I thought this quite showed off well the fact that all that stuff goes in and comes out again in a faecal sac- to be carried away and dumped so as not to mess the nest up.
Again , I don’t encourage nest shots but like woodies there is no need for “ gardening as it is called“ and in this case the birds were really stupid. They carried on their duties after I got out the hide and stood there packing my gear up !
But having said that – they were an absolute pain to do. They were straight into the hole and that was it.
About 300 pics taken and about 250 binned !! Think of that in film days !. My lad went in the hide today and had an even less productive session. Wallop – straight on the tree- flick- flick and into the nest. All within a second or too.
Most un co-operative little sods I have ever done !
Nice dickies though – and great to see that they are finding so much grub in the short intervals between visits. Lousy light too.
Sigma 100-300mm f4
D7000
640 ISO 180th sec @f11
70% of full frame.
Levels Paint shop pro
Some very white marks on bark removed.
Cheers
JR
I don't know how you do it John, this is very impressive. Given the difficulties you've described it must have been even more difficult to get both birds to pause at the same time and to be within the DOF. A really nice behavioural image.
Thanks all.
Matt- -it was a complete fluke.!. I had the camera on full 6 a second, and luckily the bark is all bumpy, but the bird outside is almost in line with the exit. Also I had racked out because I have found with the D7000 that I can afford to have a smaller image, and so get that much more DOF. I have been saying that for years but nobody listened - even in film days. Most are going away from big in frame anyway.
It is quite a crop too.
Cheers
PS I did some macro on a n Orange tip with Brett last week- he only spent two hours doing one butterfly. !!! I left him to it ! Stuff that !
JR
we all need a bit of luck from time to time, though I suspect you're being modest
The benefit of the high pixel count of modern bodies should be the extra DOF provided by shooting smaller in frame and cropping. It's strikes me as a good practical solution in this sort of situation.
I've seen one or two of Brett's recent Orange Tips, they've very nice. He sounds about as slow as me Mind you, I can never find Orange Tips around here!
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10 repliesI thought this quite showed off well the fact that all that stuff goes in and comes out again in a faecal sac- to be carried away and dumped so as not to mess the nest up.
Again , I don’t encourage nest shots but like woodies there is no need for “ gardening as it is called“ and in this case the birds were really stupid. They carried on their duties after I got out the hide and stood there packing my gear up !
But having said that – they were an absolute pain to do. They were straight into the hole and that was it.
About 300 pics taken and about 250 binned !! Think of that in film days !. My lad went in the hide today and had an even less productive session. Wallop – straight on the tree- flick- flick and into the nest. All within a second or too.
Most un co-operative little sods I have ever done !
Nice dickies though – and great to see that they are finding so much grub in the short intervals between visits. Lousy light too.
Sigma 100-300mm f4
D7000
640 ISO 180th sec @f11
70% of full frame.
Levels Paint shop pro
Some very white marks on bark removed.
Cheers
JR
Rene de Heer
Matt
Matt- -it was a complete fluke.!. I had the camera on full 6 a second, and luckily the bark is all bumpy, but the bird outside is almost in line with the exit. Also I had racked out because I have found with the D7000 that I can afford to have a smaller image, and so get that much more DOF. I have been saying that for years but nobody listened
It is quite a crop too.
Cheers
PS I did some macro on a n Orange tip with Brett last week- he only spent two hours doing one butterfly. !!! I left him to it ! Stuff that !
JR
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The benefit of the high pixel count of modern bodies should be the extra DOF provided by shooting smaller in frame and cropping. It's strikes me as a good practical solution in this sort of situation.
I've seen one or two of Brett's recent Orange Tips, they've very nice. He sounds about as slow as me
Matt
David