Old one reached image limit. >>4429946
Tell me about how you've learned to be in the right places. I want more than sparrows lol, although I do love those lil critters. Do you use those pop up hides?Bait?Gimme the deets.
>>4452847You can bait birds with like seeds and mealworms and such but I’ve seen some boomer arguments that this produces boring birds. I guess when a bird is being baited all it does is go eat and they don’t really do other behaviours or something like that. A lot of times they’ll make a whole fake perch, like stick a solid branch into the ground and smear some food on it. Again, the boomers debate about whether this is “real” same as we debate about all the other bullshit we do here
>>4452847I just wear camo clothes, doesnt have to be actual camo, just something that blends in, not too colorful. You will usually find more species by some body water. Then I just sit, wait, and observe. If nothing happens in 5-10 minutes, I move. You need a lot of patience.
>>4452961Nice pic, I hope to snap a kingfisher one day.
Little pied cormorant>SOOC jpeg looks better than the raw i spent ages editing
this fucker caws all morning and wont let me sleep
>>4454325lol
and people say street photography is slop, jfc
Find the bird
>>4452847Great shot!I'm lucky enough to live by an adubon IBA. You should at least be able to see some cool birds, the hiding and waiting is how you get close to them. You might just be in the wrong spot. Look on ebird or inaturalist for hotspots nearby, or looking up your local adubon society and seeing if they mention anywhere, and visiting right before the sun comes up for best chances.I consider bait unethical in sensitive habitats such as these but a backyard feeder is of course fine. The tip here is to pose an aesthetic branch near the feeder in a convenient spot and take the photo there.Good luck and have fun!
>>4454331none of us claim this shit is art bro chillit's a fun hobby.
>>4454356dang missed focus on that one
yall use binoculars for spotting?
>>4455365whats the point, the camera is your binoculars
>>4455365yeah
>>4455413What kind?
>>4455416I've GPO Passion HD 10x42'sanything from like 8x30 up to 10x42 is good for birdingsome decent brands: >swarovski>zeiss >kowa>opticron
>>4455418>€1kdamn
>>4455444yeah the higher end stuff gets pretty expensive. if your main focus is photography don't spend so much, at max spend ~500€ (the most competitive binocular price class), but you can get a good pair for around 100€ as well. if you wear glasses, make sure you get enough eye relief, mine have 17mm which seems just about enough, previous one's had 15,7mm and it was too little.if you want suggestions, give me your budget
spotted me.
Accidentally locked my shutter speed to 1/2000 and didn't realise till I got home so I took some noisy shots in the woods today
>>4455616
>>4455620
Saw this guy today
I saw coopers hawks screeching at great horned owls.
>>4455722the owls could not have given less of a shit
>>4455723
berd
I HAVE 55-210 SHITTY Sony SHITTY LENSi want to upgrade do i buy TAMRON 70-300 or something else? I only got a Sony a6000 so I don't really wanna buy a lens worth double my SHIT camera.youz guys pictures rockTHANKS!
>>4455733camera not important lens important. I bought a sigma 60-600 EF and have been able to keep using it when I upgraded from my ef-m m50mk2 to my rf r6mk2. Buy a lens you know you can carry over to your next camera whenever that is, whatever that is.
>>4455739 I reckon yer right, I just want super sharp pics bro
>>4455740Can your lens take a sharp picture in controlled conditions? Can you take a stuffed animal and get a sharp picture of it right now? Most cameras and most lenses can take a sharp picture in SOME conditions. If you can't then you need to evaluate why. You need to up your shutter speed to at least the zoom you're shooting at, even if the subject isn't moving your camera is moving in your hand. In Body Image Stabilization and Lens Stabilization only help so much and the further away the subject the blurrier it will get. Depending on the available light you might have to crank the ISO beyond acceptable limits and just accept that the picture will come out noisy so that you can keep the shutter speed up high enough. You should also try manual mode with focus peaking to see if the problem is the autofocus behavior of your specific camera/lens combo. Play with autofocus settings until you get better results.
>>4455733>>4455740That Tamron 70-300 will not be much better than that kit telezoom, it is essentially a Tamron version of the generic kit telezoom. Get a 70-200/2.8 if you want super sharp and generic use or get more money for a proper supertele like a Sony 200-600 or a Sigma 150-600 or similar
For me, it's Jo.
>>4456073
>>4456073every time I see one of these I think its a brutally mauled goose at the local park, the coyotes eat good all year here. ugliest fucking birds I've ever seen, nice hair cut though.
>>4456095I know right, I took a picture of another one up close and it did have something like blood on its neck. Makes me wonder if they are like that or what
>>4455743yeah, you know what I'm just being z*ch right now.I just gotta stop being retarded and take more pictures rather than pixel peeping
>>4456110always be capturing
>>4455733I got a similar tamron one a while back and it was absolutely awful, slow to focus, clunky, just felt bad to useCannot recommend
>>4456314I have a Tamron A08 150-500 for my canon dslr, the autofocus is hard to use and most often than now I turn to manual focus. Can’t wait to upgrade but this hobby is expensive
So is exif just gone now or did I change something I didnt mean to
>>4456557They nuked exif and other things around the site ever since the hack. Why pentest extra features when you can just remove them, EZ
From my recent trip. I welcome criticism.1/2
>>44566072/2
>>4456529Why is the background not blurry/in focus when it’s that far away ? (Legit question)
>>4456613High aperture. It was very bright.
>>4456529>>4456613what f. did you use?
>>4456709it's actually f3.223mm lens put that in your pipe and smoke it, dude
this is the last picture of this duck im posting, i swear
Actual ducks for reference.
>>4456813i like ducks
Shot a male kingfisher to celebrate my acquisition of a sigma 150-600
>>4456825Preem gear choom
>>4456314>>4456452reddit / youtubers absolutely shill tamron so thanks for the information fellas
>>4456825fellow Sigma male
I've really been getting comfortable with my R6mk2 + Sigma 60-600 this summer, I can even use the Sigma 2x Teleconverter in harsh sunlight with no penalties.
my M50 mk2 could never get these kinds of shots at sunset either, the R6 does amazing in low light. Even at 600mm or 1200mm, at f13 even, I can still get good shots.
>>4457252
juvenile yellowthroat
>>4457495shit
this creature looks like a puppet
some of my favorite sparrows hanging out
>>4457502he cute
Ringed Kngfisher, from northern patagonia
>>4452845I caught a fledgling. He was stunned from falling down the tree.
>>4457501That lighting is great there. It's exciting.>>4457663I'll never be tired of kingfishers. Really interesting perch, too. Kind of makes the rest of the image empty. Looks like you're about cropped in as far as you're comfortable. It's still a nice shot.>>4457685They usually figure it out.
>>4458059Spotted
Landed as I was about to leave the hide.
peeps be back
Do you edit your photos much?I find that I like looking for birds and taking photos of them but don't really enjoy sifting through the photos and working in lightroom.Wat do?
>>4458195if you're taking photos for yourself and the sport of it instead of for other people to see, don't bother
>>4458195its a pain, especially with my shitty laptop
>>4458195It depends
Brown Gerygone
Wompoo fruit doveinsanely colourful bird
Eastern yellow robin >>4458195i hate editing, pretty much just reduce highlights, lift shadows, and denoise if dark ive spent ages editing just for the SOOC jpeg to look better many times
please accept this humble evening oblation
>>4458686brother surely you can get a clearer shot of a magpie they will walk inside peoples houses, quite possibly the boldest bird in aus
Not sure how happy I am with these.
>>4458831nice
>>4458855
>>4458857
>>4458858what the fuck is that thing eating?honestly terrifying
>>4458890Fish.
>>4459077/p/ does not understand healthy food
gonna try to hunt for a kingfisher tomorrow, they're very rare in my country, but one has been spotted 50km from me
>>445889090% sure that's just a worm.
>>4459103I hope you found him
>>4459490I didn't. arrived at around 7:30 and some older guy told me it had left 30 minutes ago to a certain direction. later that day, someone had spotted a dead kingfisher about 1km from the place, in the direction the older guy said it went. I presume it was the same one, pity.at least I spotted grey wagtails there, which are also kinda rare here, so it wasn't a complete waste of time
>>4459494>specific bird anon was planning to shoot happened to die mere minutes before encountering itDied of what? I mean, dead birds are usually food for larger birds or scavengers. Makes it sound like it had a heart attack at the end of a long life.
>>4459495no clue, but I'd guess it flew into some structure, building, or a vehicle. the area was near a city centre, 1 block from the river he had been seen at
Cheating: It's dead.But I still like it.
Borb-in-flight is hard.Hope one day I'll get something that's not a blurry mess.
At one point it even caught something.
But it was so far away
Some nice posing
>>4459512These are pretty decent mang
>>4459517Thanks, but they suck.My gear can do better, but when it comes to BiF I guess everything must come together perfectly to produce a good result.The weather, the distance, the angle, the pose, and no AF hiccups.The weather wasn't great that day, and distance was.
black swan cygnet
buff-banded rail
Enjoying the sparrows and the fledgelings around. Missed the opportunities to take pictures of the ones I see at work.
black-fronted dotterel
scarlet ibis
>>4460382Nice shot. What are the exposure values?
>>4460767400mm f/6.3, 1/640SS, 1250ISO, manualwas partly overcast
I feel like there's less birds, are they less active now because their young have left the nest?
>>4461125fall migration has begun some time ago
I try to take pictures of birds, but I can never find any. When I finally do find one, I'm too slow with focusing.
>>4461125Depending on where you live there's MORE birds this time of year as they migrate. I managed to get some Pelicans at the lake here in Vegas, they were only there for 2 days. They ate all the fish, bullied the fuck out of the Cormorants and then left.
>>4461220It's possible I'm getting lazier.
Testing using a watermark / border in darktable to show the exif data.Exif String:$(EXIF.MODEL) / $(EXIF.LENS)$(NL)$(EXIF.EXPOSURE) - f/$(EXIF.APERTURE) - ISO $(EXIF.ISO) - $(EXIF.FOCAL.LENGTH)mm$(NL)$(MONTH.LONG) $(DAY) $(YEAR) $(GPS.LATITUDE) / $(GPS.LONGITUDE)
the geese here are such absolute goobers
>>4461321>>4461318is darktable just a blurry program, or are the demosaicing/sharpening settings so complex (but easier for lazy freetard devs than determining the ideal settings for each camera and including it as official support themselves, like lightroom does) more people get it ever so slightly wrong?ive notice a pattern over time of darktable users photos having badly rendered fine detail but every now and then someone gets it right (rarely), even if they're using gear and settings that should be good
Winter Wren
>>4461323sharpness is subjective there is no such thing as "right" and darktable has about seven different methods you can adjust an image's sharpness with from big blur to extra crispy. However, if you resize an image during export, sharpness is not reapplied at that time and this can cause issues but if you're resizing at export its likely for somewhere that nobody is going to be pixel peeping anyways such as instagram. Its especially not important if you're printing 5x7s or 4x6s of your work.
Not sure what this lil nigga is, but he was chillin with me at the summit of a mountain for a bit
>>4461399i'd hold my images to higher standards than an e-m1 iii+panny 100-300s output if i had an r6ii and a $2000 zoom lens but hey thats just me, someone who could figure out how to use darktable but would rather install gentoo
>>4461753nobody cares what you think, post pictures of birds or go bother someone else
>>4461719thats a good bird right there
Birding is actually so easy
>>4461910actually curious how this came out
>>4461936it's E100 I'm going to have to send it out for development. Unfortunately I think it's overexposed
>>4461949Should have gotten closer.
>>4461949ey, its still going to be worth checking out when you post it here.
Varied Sittella
azure kingfisher
>>4462167hell yeah king
>>4461910What a show-off>>4462167Noice, where was it shot?
>>4461910>be vewwy, vewwy qweyet
>>4452845a general notice question for /bpd: do you care more for seeing rare birds or taking pictures? why?
>>4462196Kholo Gardens, Ipswich, Austiny pond he kept hanging around
>>4462199rare birdsto me, the main point is showing people something they have never seen before
>>4461399RawTherapee has post-resize sharpening if you would like that feature.
>>4462199Just seeing birds in general, rare or not. I mostly enjoy observing their behaviour. I've been more into landscape photography at first but bird photography is a way to join the two hobbies, I also like sharing these images and memories with my fellow birders and for future me too. Plus photography and live observation aren't giving the same results, photos allow to scrutinise a particular pose, plumage or behaviour for a longer time and with more details. Observation is better for dynamics (more varied stuff to watch) and less of a hassle too, but it's fleeting by nature.
>>4452845I captured this on my Canon Rebel T5Shutter Speed-1/3200ISO-800F4.0WB on AutoUsing the Canon Zoom Lens EF 75-300mm
Why do you guys like birds so much, of all of the available animals?Seems a little odd.
>>4462277birb cool
>>4462277photographers like birds because they are an excuse to buy exotic equipment and are readily available to photograph
>>4462254Same settings and lens but taken this morning.
>>4462277i like most animals, but I can very rarely see e.g., wolves and bears when walking outsidethe fact there are so many species of birds makes them a perfect fit for a daily hobbyalso, I'm a birder first and photographer 2nd, didn't get my first proper camera until after around 5 years of observing birds
>>4462254>>4462282Why do you need 1/3200 to capture a figurine of a bird? Or is that a real bird that looks fake because of the fabled canon color science?
finally saw a turnstone
sanderlings
>>4462285It was to capture the wings in mid-flight and I used Lightroom for some color grading.
Hooded crow from last summer
>>4462287 lovely
bairds
liked this pose a little better
>>4462277i dont actually, they are just the easiest wildlife to come across>>4462280yeah this>>4462417>>4462418what focal length/how are you getting so close?
How does one make money with this stuff?
>>4462449sell your equipment
Taking pictures at a stupidly long distance with cheap equipment and getting surprised when they don't turn out good at all :-DGrey Heron(?) was nice to see, though. People said there was a Hobby or two in the area but boats coming down the river scared everything off, I think. >>4462469This, or don't get into photography in the first place.
>>4462449Find a way to sell pictures to furries
>>4462436its a 600mm lens, but a lot of sandpipers will run right up to you if you go lay down in the mud
idk what bird this is
>>4462605That is a white breasted nuthatch. They are very cute and chatty. And hard to photograph, nice job. My pic is not very good but a different nuthatch, we have red breasted here.
Took this bland ass photo of a dumbass magpie that was super relaxed around people and now I want to get a higher zoom lens for going innawoods and taking pics of birds
>>4462643that photo rocks, just got a 70-350 so I'm hoping to see more bird and hopefully get some good pics coming up
Scaly-breasted LorikeetSOOC, shame about the unnatural perch
Motherfucker.I was approaching a puddle in a park and there was this shiny blue thing sitting on a branch above it. I assumed it was a candy wrapper or something, until it flew off like a rocket. It must have been a kingfisher, I can't think of anything else with such an unnatural looking shiny blue appearance. Fuck me for not checking it out through the camera.
lesser
some knots too
>>4463376the bird clearly doesn't think it's unnatural
>>4463849>>4463852>>4463888Love these, what kit are you using?
pals
z8 and the 180-600i miss my d500. i spent a retarded amount of money on this thing and its not as much fun and really didnt help that much hahahah
>>4463894meant to (you) you to u srry
>>4464003Yeah but they will last a while and you will forget the pain of buying them.
>>4464003Isn't the evf turning off annoying when you're tracking birds, waiting for them to approach? It's something that would prevent me from switching tbqh
>>4464010yea i hope at least the lack of the flappy mirror and shutter will tolerate my addiction to burst shooting better>>4464059yea you just gotta jiggle something or keep afc active, it can lag sometimes too which is annoying. Maybe not lag, but drop to like 10fps refresh. just doesnt feel nice
Been shooting mostly film this year, which I will never post here. This is one of my few digital shots.
>>4464112>bird ive never seen beforeawsome, what is it
Went for a walk so will post some shitty photosSo hard to take these pics of these little assholes. Easy to find them because they make a lot of noise and won't sit still atleast
loved this one even if it's out of focus
>>4464182you just have to get lucky with fairywrens really
kookaburra
Song Sparrow
My favourite birdJuvenile Marsh Harrier
Loons from a nearby lake, these guys are incredibly skittish.Soon they'll migrate away, but been fun following them for a few weeks (when I heard about them).
Here they spawned right in front of me after diving, and immediately made warning call and pissed off.
>>4464594>>4464598Nice shots. I love loons too. Ours are going away soon too and I don't know if I've seen one this year. I should look around for them.
You fellas using af or mf? I'm looking at some 400mm Sigma prime lens and the manual ones are half the price, and way easier to find
>>4464834Actually I may aswell ask aswell, the 400mms im looking at are f5.6. There's also a mf Sigma 300mm f4 prime for sale. Is 400mm a noticeable step up from 300mm for taking bird pics?
>>4464834definetly AFhalf the point of the fancy new cameras is AF speed, it matters alot for birding>>4464836400mm is a noticable step up imoits only after 600mm where it gets negible
>>4464834i try to stick with af but sometimes the lens focuses on the wrong object and mo doesnt help so i switch to mf. I usually just switch as needed
Has anyone shot here shot with the Tamron 150-500mm F/5-6.7 Di III VC VXD or is there a better lens I can get for bird photography in the same price range for an X mount?
>>4465058cutes
Here's a dipper
Kite
>>4465197nice
>>4464181Just a Ruffed Grouse.>>4465098I've used nothing but 300mm prime this year. Go for optical quality and speed over focal length, f/5-6.7 is very suboptimal.
>>4465473>>4465680Thank you! These are gorgeous shots
>>4465197Hey man, nice shot.
>>4452845Hey man, nice shot.
>>4465197kino
>>4465887what are you shooting on
>>4465916Pentax K200 with 55-300 f4-5.8 lensIt's not the best for bird pics, 10mp feels like too little, like 99% of the pics I take are absolute shit
brrrrrraaaaaaaap
>>4465680
solitary! sandpiper! real flighty. did not walk close.
