Bird Hunting

[pippin88]

This lot were taken over the past 2 days.

Yesterday in bush area just South of Merewther Heights (It's a small valley with a Hunter Water Comission Treatment plant in it.) and todays at the Newcastle Wetlands - the same ones as the shoot a while ago.

Many of these are cropped to 1600x1064 then resized down to 800x532.

Chasing small birds is hard - more reach and VR would be nice. Was using the 70-300ED

























Unfortunately, I didn't take into account the pure white of the bird (Egret?) and so have blown a lot of the highlights.



















This was my first real go at bird hunting, so I don't think I did too bad.

[mudder]

G'day Nick,
Shooting birds makes you get length lust huh... . Looks like the light was pretty hard too which makes the shadows tricky to handle. The colours seem nicely saturated and good contrast. Couldn't see the bird on the wire in the last one

[kipper]

Welcome to our pain Pippin

I've spoken to a few people on other forums about bird photography and lenses. They said you're better taking up a drug habbit as it's cheaper
Something I'm starting to work out is with dark birds +0.3 or 0.6 EV and with light birds such as pure white (eg. egrits or black shouldered kite) -0.3 or 0.6 EV. If perfect light that is.