Beautiful Florida birds, & a rabbit and lizard too (a6000)

zackiedawg · Jul 12, 2014

nzmacro said:
Really love that second shot shot with the behaviour of being chased Justin. I always try and capture that, only have a few shots though. Most of mine are from too far out as well. One day ;-)

Love the variety you have up there and the Limpkin is an interesting one, plenty of different details to be had, nice shot. Same as the ........ Bittern, nice fine details. Those Roseate Spoonbill's of yours, make our white Royal Spoonbill's look a little boring in colours Stunning they are and that's one I would love to get from your way. Fascinating !!

All darn great shots as always Justin and a very enjoyable read. Lizards are always a pleasure to see, not something we get here too much and generally only small lizards.

All the best Justin and fine BIF's also.

Many thanks Danny. Appreciate the kind words. Our spoonbills are very popular down here, especially with tourists who have not seen a bright pink bird before. I'd still love to get a shot at your royals though!

Wish I could send you some lizards - we have plenty of them, in all sizes from a few inches to nearly 10 feet!

nzmacro · Jul 12, 2014

zackiedawg said:
nzmacro said:

Really love that second shot shot with the behaviour of being chased Justin. I always try and capture that, only have a few shots though. Most of mine are from too far out as well. One day ;-)

Love the variety you have up there and the Limpkin is an interesting one, plenty of different details to be had, nice shot. Same as the ........ Bittern, nice fine details. Those Roseate Spoonbill's of yours, make our white Royal Spoonbill's look a little boring in colours Stunning they are and that's one I would love to get from your way. Fascinating !!

All darn great shots as always Justin and a very enjoyable read. Lizards are always a pleasure to see, not something we get here too much and generally only small lizards.

All the best Justin and fine BIF's also.

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Many thanks Danny. Appreciate the kind words. Our spoonbills are very popular down here, especially with tourists who have not seen a bright pink bird before. I'd still love to get a shot at your royals though!

Wish I could send you some lizards - we have plenty of them, in all sizes from a few inches to nearly 10 feet!

Michael Everett · Jul 12, 2014

chillzatl said:
Really nice shots. We have a number of hawks around our house and I've watched Blue Jays chase them out of the area numerous times. They are fearless! That's one FAT basilisk too. It looks like it's about to pop. It's no wonder they've become a nuisance as they're obviously very well fed.

Justin, really nice shots. I especially like the spoonbills; we don't have many of those in Tallahassee.

In our backyard we frequently see a hawk sitting on our fence, and he is hounded constantly by mocking birds. They know just how to approach from his rear so they don't get in line with his beak and claws. I haven't seen the nests, but there are enough mocking birds around that I'm sure that is their concern.

Michael

timned88 · Jul 12, 2014

Beautiful as always, my friend.
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Tim Devine,
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FuhTeng · Jul 13, 2014

Your photos are always so much fun and so pretty, thank you zackie. Your photos also inspired me to acquire a DH1758 myself, but mine doesn't seem to work as well. I have the same combo you do, the A6000 + 55-210 + DH1758, but I get quite bad bluriness outside of dead center. Is this normal? Are your photos here cropped?

Thanks again!

AlGor · Jul 13, 2014

Beautifully taken shots! Nice positioned and very natural colors. I do like all of them.

I have two questions :

in last shot you did cut the tail's end - did you take attention? (or ignore?)

all your pics are well down-sampled, and I know it take time to do it; this is for delaying any IQ critics?

Thank you for uploading.

Al.

scottyinfrisco · Jul 13, 2014

Justin - what were your AF settings for those BIF shots? - Thanks

zackiedawg · Jul 13, 2014

Michael Everett said:
Justin, really nice shots. I especially like the spoonbills; we don't have many of those in Tallahassee.

In our backyard we frequently see a hawk sitting on our fence, and he is hounded constantly by mocking birds. They know just how to approach from his rear so they don't get in line with his beak and claws. I haven't seen the nests, but there are enough mocking birds around that I'm sure that is their concern.

The mockers are definitely part of the defense corps here too, especially when they're getting near nesting time. In our case, I find the hawks get chased by the little birds even when they're not nesting - it seems to be instinct especially for the blue jays to immediately chase down any predator birds that come into their area, to alert all other birds where the danger is. They do always come at the hawks from behind when they fly away too, as you mention.

Many thanks!

zackiedawg · Jul 13, 2014

I guess we'll both get our first chance to play with the A6K at Disney next week. I'm looking forward to it, getting to shoot other subjects with it, as so far I've only really shot birds with it. I've decided I'm just bringing the A6000 and leaving the DSLR for this trip - since it's 95 degrees and humid - lighten the load and play with the new cam!

zackiedawg · Jul 13, 2014

FuhTeng said:
Your photos are always so much fun and so pretty, thank you zackie. Your photos also inspired me to acquire a DH1758 myself, but mine doesn't seem to work as well. I have the same combo you do, the A6000 + 55-210 + DH1758, but I get quite bad bluriness outside of dead center. Is this normal? Are your photos here cropped?

I do often crop a little bit with bird photos - some are only cropped 5-10%, others are cropped a lot more, like even as much as 50-60% - birding almost always involves some crop.

But you shouldn't have really bad blurriness - just a little corner softness...if you get more than maybe 5% blurred in the corners, you might have a misaligned version of the DH or a bad copy.

zackiedawg · Jul 13, 2014

AlGor said:
Beautifully taken shots! Nice positioned and very natural colors. I do like all of them.

Thank you.

AlGor said:
I have two questions :

in last shot you did cut the tail's end - did you take attention? (or ignore?)

I had to ignore it...their tails are very very long, and that one probably went another 4 inches - I was only able to fit that much of the lizard in the frame due to the forest area I was shooting in - if I backed up, I had other trees and branches that would get in the way, so I was stuck with that shooting position and at that distance, the frame was smaller than the lizard - I emphasized the head and body and let the whip tail run off the frame.

AlGor said:
all your pics are well down-sampled, and I know it take time to do it; this is for delaying any IQ critics?

No, I never worry about critics - I always invite any criticism. But unfortunately I can't always please the true pixel-peepers who love to go through full size shots because I've had too many problems in the past with my photos being stolen when I used to post large-res versions. So I long ago decided to only post downsized versions of my photos online - I try to keep the quality very high with minimal compression, but by keeping the posting size down to 1024x pixels, it makes it nearly impossible for anyone to use one of my photos as their own, sell it to a stock agency, or a publisher, or make large prints...so there's very little anyone could do with them if they stole them!

Again, thanks for the comments, and the questions!

AlGor said:
Thank you for uploading.

Al.

zackiedawg · Jul 13, 2014

For my BIF shooting, I have stored one of the memory banks in the camera with the following settings:

Center-weight metering

Wide focus area

AF-C focus mode

Shutter Priority - usually with a 1/1000 setting by default, and adjusted as needed

Steady Shot off

Auto ISO set to 100 floor, 6400 ceiling

Drive mode set to Mid (6fps)

Thanks!

AlGor · Jul 13, 2014

zackiedawg said:
No, I never worry about critics - I always invite any criticism. But unfortunately I can't always please the true pixel-peepers who love to go through full size shots because I've had too many problems in the past with my photos being stolen when I used to post large-res versions. So I long ago decided to only post downsized versions of my photos online - I try to keep the quality very high with minimal compression, but by keeping the posting size down to 1024x pixels, it makes it nearly impossible for anyone to use one of my photos as their own, sell it to a stock agency, or a publisher, or make large prints...so there's very little anyone could do with them if they stole them!

Again, thanks for the comments, and the questions!

zackiedawg said:

Thank you for uploading.

Al.

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scottyinfrisco · Jul 13, 2014

Thank you so much.

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