Willow Tit
Posted 19/03/2010 - 19:23
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Excellent shot. I so want one of these lenses
Emma
"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything." Aaron Siskind
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"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything." Aaron Siskind
Bodies K20D, LTL 3, K1000d
Lenses Pentax 50mm, Pentax 135mm, Tamron 70-300 macro
Posted 19/03/2010 - 19:26
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lovely shot alan. are you sure its not a marsh tit.
Posted 19/03/2010 - 19:33
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they do kinda, but willos have orange buff flanks,
they are so hard to tell apart, but great shot anyway
they are so hard to tell apart, but great shot anyway
Posted 19/03/2010 - 21:30
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The thing is Gareth, with a 300mm and TC or similar I would have missed this shot, the bird would have landed and flown again before I'd located it in the viewfinder, with the Bigma I just zoomed out till I found it and intended to zoom in on it again, according to the exif this was shot at about 190mm. This is my first decent shot of this bird, they are so quick and difficult to capture, they dont even stay on feeders very long.
I think I need to be thinking of the 60-250DA and a decent TC.
I think I need to be thinking of the 60-250DA and a decent TC.
Posted 19/03/2010 - 22:56
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Love it Alan. Well done.
Dave
Dave
Posted 20/03/2010 - 06:18
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What a lovely shot - I can imagine it at full size!
Posted 20/03/2010 - 10:05
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impotentspider wrote:
The thing is Gareth, with a 300mm and TC or similar I would have missed this shot, the bird would have landed and flown again before I'd located it in the viewfinder, with the Bigma I just zoomed out till I found it and intended to zoom in on it again, according to the exif this was shot at about 190mm. This is my first decent shot of this bird, they are so quick and difficult to capture, they dont even stay on feeders very long.
I think I need to be thinking of the 60-250DA and a decent TC.
That's a great capture, congratulations! The thing is Gareth, with a 300mm and TC or similar I would have missed this shot, the bird would have landed and flown again before I'd located it in the viewfinder, with the Bigma I just zoomed out till I found it and intended to zoom in on it again, according to the exif this was shot at about 190mm. This is my first decent shot of this bird, they are so quick and difficult to capture, they dont even stay on feeders very long.
I think I need to be thinking of the 60-250DA and a decent TC.
I have the DA*60-250 and the Promaster 1.7x TC that does work with the SDM but I find I rarely use the TC as most of my shots (not all! :wink are covered adequately by the 60-250 alone and the IQ IS that bit better, plus I'm not limited by the effective f6.3 maximum.
I frequently use my 60-250 at f4.0 or f4.5 as it's so good wide open. But it is nice to have the ability to extend the FL to 425mm, especially for those small bird shots like yours!
Posted 20/03/2010 - 10:22
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It's a top shot! Nice one. I have been using the DA* 300 for a little while now, and whilst to start with I found myself hunting around to get things in the viewfinder (only find they have flown!), I can now pretty much get the thing pointing where I want it first time...
Mat
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I caught a glimpse of this out of the corner of my eye and zoomed out to make it easier to locate, fortunately I snapped this before zooming in again as it quickly flew off So this is about a quarter of the original frame size, not bad eh?
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