Garden Wildlife

From our garden today.......



Frog





Male House Sparrow 1




Male House Sparrow 2




Female House Sparrow




Spotted Flycatcher 1




Spotted Flycatcher 2






All K5, 150-500.
Elements 11.


Any & all comments or criticism will be most welcome.


Thanks for looking,


Roger.

Nice set of images.
Wish I got flycatchers in my garden

I dare say, Steve!

But there again, I wouldn't mind a barn owl carrying a prey wren in mine, either!!!

Thanks for looking,

Roger.

I like these Roger, all nice and sharp and some good poses. I would say they are exposed a little too much for me and consequently don't have quite the depth of colour and richness that they could have done.

Interestingly, I find that my 150-500 has a tendency toward over-exposure so I usually dial in an extra third or two thirds of a stop under-exposure, compared to what I set on my other lenses.

Regards
David

Thanks, David.

I'll try that next session. Didn't know / realise different lenses exposed differently, presuming the metering would equal any discrepancy out.....

Learn, learn, learn.......
Love it!

Roger.

Exactly what I was going to say


As maybe but you can't blame the lens or metering as you should correct it in editing. Have you calibrated your monitor, including it's gamma?

These are a cracking set of pics btw and deserve getting the exposure corrected and any other edits edits to make them pop.

I even envy you the frog, for the first time ever we had no spawn in our pond. A wonderful bird, very nicely portrayed, Roger. Doesn't that lens have interesting bokeh?

David & Smeggy, here's a re-work of spotted Flycatcher 1.

Is it any "better"?







Roger.

I don't want to detract from the bird shots but that frog picture is brilliant.

Half expect the next frame to show him emerging with an M16 like some kind of Rambo Frog lol. Brilliant

I too love the frong picture, we should have a good crop of frogs this year as we have almost more frogsporn than water in the pond (and its 8m x 7m). I hope I can get a picture to match yours
Peace James

some cracking shots there ... especially like number two