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Two of a Kind

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Posted by John Robinson on May 31, 2013 at 6:10 PM
Two of a Kind
House Sparrows
A delightful moment at my little pool :rolleyes: I love the way male spadgers tolerate each other.I suppose all colonial birds do for that matter. Shows the advantage of racking outa bit too to get better DOf. Can afford to do it now I have the 24 million jobbies !! So pleased the wife bought me the new camera :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:
Sorry to bore you with more puddle stuff but thats all there is at the moment apart from the Little owls and once you've done one on a perch you,ve done ,em all !!
D7100 DX mode Contrast and EV down one.60% of full frame.
Nikor 70-300mm f4
Levels etc Paint Shop pro.
Thanks for snail interest.
JR
Posted by Bob Johnson on June 1, 2013 at 4:37 AM
Very smart John. Perhaps you should change the LOWL perch to something a little more interesting :wink:

Bob :smile:
Posted by Phil Ellard on June 1, 2013 at 6:11 AM
Looking good John :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by John Robinson on June 1, 2013 at 6:23 AM
Bob
Not so much the perches but the back ground which is rather limited. I,ve used about a dozen differebt perches but the backdrop is getting boring. I even thought of artificial ones !!!
There's only about two places I can work from.
Cheers
JR
Posted by Nick Mckeown on June 1, 2013 at 8:27 AM
Cracking spadger shot JR, two for the price of one! Interested in your use of the term DX mode. As the D7100 is a DX camera do you mean you used the additional 1.3 DX crop making it a 2x crop? Curious to know if you have used it and if you find it useful, IQ etc.

Nick. :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :smile: :wavey:
Posted by David Sewell on June 1, 2013 at 8:34 AM
A smart image of an under-rated species.

David
Posted by Andy Shepherd on June 1, 2013 at 1:12 PM

Smart image and great to get two together, John. Still one of my bogey birds :smile:

Andy... :wavey:
Posted by Andy Astbury on June 1, 2013 at 1:28 PM
Not seen one in years and JR gets two!

Smart birds and well worth photographing as often as you can John :toast:
Posted by Paul Whippey on June 1, 2013 at 1:53 PM
Very few of these about at the mo John. Superb detail and sharpness, the new camera is certainly doing the business. :toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by John Robinson on June 1, 2013 at 4:55 PM
Thanks all . Nick- No the DX is just the normal mode and I have done some tests with the 1:3 mode but not thing conclusive yet. The buffer doesn't fill up so quick but I am not a rapid fire man !! Some say you are just as well off shooting full res in DX and then getting the same result by cropping as the 1:3 mode would.(If that makes sense.)
Cheers
JR
Posted by Mike Smith on June 2, 2013 at 5:55 PM
I love spudgers, despite best feeding efforts over the winter my hoped for pair moved away come spring....... sods law - 500 yards away there are several pairs, but will they stay in my garden..... nope :rolleyes: