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| Posted: Wed May 16th, 2018 17:17 |
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Eric
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A very elusive Sedge Warbler... Attachment: 2DA9234A-2370-462C-A926-CFED95627BEF.jpeg (Downloaded 98 times)
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| Posted: Wed May 16th, 2018 17:22 |
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Eric
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...and a Brent goose Attachment: ED6A5825-7A85-4A9C-8EAA-202ED0AF0904.jpeg (Downloaded 96 times)
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| Posted: Wed May 16th, 2018 17:25 |
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Robert
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Squarerigger wrote:From the expression on your faces, it looks like one or all of you broke wind and the birds are not taking flight, they are dropping out of the sky for that fianal landing. :cheers Well I look as though I am stifling a yawn... I don't recall that but perhaps I might be excused... I left Lancaster at 10pm Sunday night, drove to a waterfall in Derbyshire, arrived about 2am, spent an hour there photographing stars and the waterfall by torch and flash, continued down to Boston, has breakfast at 6am, arriving at Frampton in time to catch 40 winks before Eric arrived just before 9:30 am. We had a lovely time at Frampton together, Eric, Graham and myself, together with birdwatchers Mike and Tom. Afterwards I followed Eric home, we had a very enjoyable evening discussing photography. On Tuesday morning I set off for home, but it was such a nice day I decided to make something of it, so I set course for Ness Gardens, where I took almost 400 photographs of flowers, admittedly most were 5 shot bracketed due to the bright sunlight. I then visited an old friend from school days, who lives nearby the Gardens, just over the Welsh border. I arrived back home at three O'clock this morning. I had seriously considered coming home from Wales via the Derwent Valley where a Lancaster Bomber was due to make a flypast to commemorate 100 years of the RAF and 75 years since the 617 Squadron's raid on the German Dams. It was scheduled for noon today but I checked out the weather and heavy cloud was forecast so I (rightly) assumed it would be cancelled. Graham kindly let me try his 80-400 + TC1.4, a lens I haven't used before, I also used my 70-300VR 4.5-5.6. I am surprised how many of the photo's I took were (to me) acceptable. Not perfect because except when I used Grahams lens I was maxed out at 300mm on FX, with 12.5Mp, while Eric had the luxury equivalent of 630mm with his combo on the D500.From my 220 shots I have picked 20, these are the least worst... All taken with the D3 with Aperture priority, ISO 400, mostly with the Nikkor 70-300 VR 4.5-5.6. Most of the images are at close to 100% crop, ie camera pixel to screen pixel.  Eric trying to open the gate, turned out there were three ways to unlatch it, none particular obvious...  Graham trying to see a particularly rare/unusual tiny bird which was really beyond reach.  The brown bird to the left of the Avocets.  Two Ringed Plover and another small Plover, the rings are opposite colours, can't remember names   A pair of Avoset's.  A minor scuffle!  What you looking at???  Another scuffle...  Another smaller bird, again can't remember the name. I could do with an SD card slot so I could maybe remember stuff...  Last but not least, these two.  Just have a bunch of bracketed flower photo's to wade through now, then when I am in the mood, finish my night time waterfall/startrails photo, which looks like it might have some merit...
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| Posted: Wed May 16th, 2018 17:33 |
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Eric
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This was my first outing with the D500+300mmf4 and 1.4tc. I made some exposure and setting errors throughout the morning due to my unfamiliarity and clumsiness with back button focusing. I've since returned to the armchair reread the manual sections on controls and reconfigured some to hopefully thwart me less next time. But given I am only on shot 330 with the camera, it's early days! The 300mm lens and tc are very light and well balanced on the D500. The only issue I encountered was the distance we were from the subjects. On some of the shots a single focus frame only just covered the subject they were that distant! There is no substitute for close proximity and filling the frame.
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| Posted: Wed May 16th, 2018 17:45 |
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Eric
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Good selection of the days efforts there. We all suffered to varying degrees with subject distance irrespective of equipment differences. Only the geese were close enough and big enough to fill the frame. We really needed 1000mm for most of those birds.....and someone to carry the lens!  PS...remind me to take a hacksaw next time we go there. I will soon have that gate open! Notice I stepped over the small fence to see if I could unlock it from the other side....while Mike and Graham waited. 
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| Posted: Thu May 17th, 2018 01:17 |
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Iain
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A friend of mine uses the 300 f4 with a 1.7tc and has great results with it.
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| Posted: Thu May 17th, 2018 02:39 |
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Graham Whistler
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And good fun was had by all. No major winners from me as Eric said very long lenses needed! Glad you got home OK Robert, great to meet you and Eric after all those years on the forum. More of the poor Little Ringed Plovers having a hard time by Little Plover who is larger! Also a very long reach and 150% bl;ow up from an image not much larger than the focus spot on D850. Attachment: Little Ringed Plovers 0915.jpg (Downloaded 95 times)
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| Posted: Thu May 17th, 2018 02:54 |
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Robert
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Graham Whistler wrote:And good fun was had by all. No major winners from me as Eric siad very long lenses needed! Glad you got home OK Robert, great to meet you and Eric after all those years on the forum. Yes indeed Graham, it was really good to meet you and look forward to June in Eskdale.
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| Posted: Thu May 17th, 2018 03:05 |
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Eric
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Graham Whistler wrote:And good fun was had by all. No major winners from me as Eric said very long lenses needed! Glad you got home OK Robert, great to meet you and Eric after all those years on the forum. I think next time you venture up this way, Graham, we will take you to Lakenheath Fen. Mike went yesterday and has some cracking full frame shots of Hobbys in flight with his 70-300mm, along with Kingfishers and some rare pippets....despite the dull windy day and slow shutter speeds! It's another haunt with which, I am sure, Tom will be familiar. One of Mikes shots he sent me........
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| Posted: Thu May 17th, 2018 03:11 |
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Robert
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Eric wrote:Good selection of the days efforts there. I have been scheming how to get closer to the birds, I definitely lack 'field craft'... There are 'bait boats' which apparently are used by fishermen to deposit bait for attracting fish, small battery driven boats from about a foot long up to three or four feet long, silent and manoeuvrable they use water jet propulsion consisting of an internal pump which sucks water up then ejects it from the rear of the boat propelling the boat forwards. Steering is achieved by having two jets, one at each side. Propellors tend to get entangled with weed. Mounting a camera on board with wi-fi live view might allow me to get quite close to the birds? Don't expect the RSPB would approve but here on the shores of the estuary I don't think anyone would bother. Sounds like a fun project. I had been planning a small trolling boat for exploring the estuary and photography, but the tides here are powerful and fast running, I have been advised I need at least a reliable ten horsepower outboard to stay safe, even on a small boat. That would be noisy and expensive.
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