Thread 4452845

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.

>>4452847
You 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

>>4452847

I 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.

>>4452961
Nice 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

>>4454325
lol

and people say street photography is slop, jfc

Find the bird

>>4452847
Great 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!

>>4454331
none of us claim this shit is art bro chill

it's a fun hobby.

>>4454356
dang missed focus on that one

yall use binoculars for spotting?

>>4455365
whats the point, the camera is your binoculars

>>4455365
yeah

>>4455413
What kind?

>>4455416
I've GPO Passion HD 10x42's
anything from like 8x30 up to 10x42 is good for birding
some decent brands:
>swarovski
>zeiss
>kowa
>opticron

>>4455418
>€1k
damn

>>4455444
yeah 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

Saw this guy today

I saw coopers hawks screeching at great horned owls.

>>4455722
the owls could not have given less of a shit

berd

I HAVE 55-210 SHITTY Sony SHITTY LENS
i 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 rock
THANKS!

>>4455733
camera 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

>>4455740
Can 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
>>4455740
That 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
every 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.

>>4456095
I 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

>>4455743
yeah, 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

>>4456110
always be capturing

>>4455733
I got a similar tamron one a while back and it was absolutely awful, slow to focus, clunky, just felt bad to use
Cannot recommend

>>4456314
I 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

>>4456557
They 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

>>4456607
2/2

>>4456529
Why is the background not blurry/in focus when it’s that far away ? (Legit question)

>>4456613
High aperture. It was very bright.

>>4456613
High aperture. It was very bright.

>>4456529
>>4456613

what f. did you use?

>>4456709
it's actually f3.2
23mm 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.

>>4456813
i like ducks

Shot a male kingfisher to celebrate my acquisition of a sigma 150-600

>>4456825
Preem gear choom

>>4456314
>>4456452
reddit / youtubers absolutely shill tamron so thanks for the information fellas

>>4456825
fellow 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.

juvenile yellowthroat

>>4457495
shit

this creature looks like a puppet

some of my favorite sparrows hanging out

>>4457502
he cute

Ringed Kngfisher, from northern patagonia

>>4452845 (OP)
I caught a fledgling. He was stunned from falling down the tree.

>>4457501
That lighting is great there. It's exciting.
>>4457663
I'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.
>>4457685
They usually figure it out.

>>4458059
Spotted

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?

>>4458195
if you're taking photos for yourself and the sport of it instead of for other people to see, don't bother

>>4458195
its a pain, especially with my shitty laptop

>>4458195
It depends

Brown Gerygone

Wompoo fruit dove
insanely colourful bird

Eastern yellow robin

>>4458195
i 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

>>4458686
brother 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.

>>4458831
nice

>>4458858
what the fuck is that thing eating?
honestly terrifying

>>4458890
Fish.

>>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

>>4458890
90% sure that's just a worm.

>>4459103
I hope you found him

>>4459490
I 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 it
Died 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.

>>4459495
no 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

>>4459512
These are pretty decent mang

>>4459517
Thanks, 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

>>4460382
Nice shot. What are the exposure values?

>>4460767
400mm f/6.3, 1/640SS, 1250ISO, manual
was partly overcast

I feel like there's less birds, are they less active now because their young have left the nest?

>>4461125
fall 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.

>>4461125
Depending 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.

>>4461220
It'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
>>4461318
is 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

>>4461323
sharpness 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

>>4461399
i'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

>>4461753
nobody cares what you think, post pictures of birds or go bother someone else

>>4461719
thats a good bird right there

Birding is actually so easy

>>4461910
actually curious how this came out

>>4461936
it's E100 I'm going to have to send it out for development. Unfortunately I think it's overexposed

>>4461949
Should have gotten closer.

>>4461949
ey, its still going to be worth checking out when you post it here.

Varied Sittella

azure kingfisher

>>4462167
hell yeah king

>>4461910
What a show-off
>>4462167
Noice, where was it shot?

>>4461910
>be vewwy, vewwy qweyet

>>4452845 (OP)
a general notice question for /bpd:
do you care more for seeing rare birds or taking pictures? why?

>>4462196
Kholo Gardens, Ipswich, Aus
tiny pond he kept hanging around

>>4462199
rare birds

to me, the main point is showing people something they have never seen before

>>4461399
RawTherapee has post-resize sharpening if you would like that feature.

>>4462199
Just 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.

>>4452845 (OP)
I captured this on my Canon Rebel T5
Shutter Speed-1/3200
ISO-800
F4.0
WB on Auto
Using 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.

>>4462277
birb cool

>>4462277
photographers like birds because they are an excuse to buy exotic equipment and are readily available to photograph

>>4462254
Same settings and lens but taken this morning.

>>4462277
i like most animals, but I can very rarely see e.g., wolves and bears when walking outside
the fact there are so many species of birds makes them a perfect fit for a daily hobby
also, I'm a birder first and photographer 2nd, didn't get my first proper camera until after around 5 years of observing birds

>>4462254
>>4462282
Why 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

>>4462285
It 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

>>4462277
i dont actually, they are just the easiest wildlife to come across

>>4462280
yeah this

>>4462417
>>4462418
what focal length/how are you getting so close?

How does one make money with this stuff?

>>4462449
sell your equipment

Taking pictures at a stupidly long distance with cheap equipment and getting surprised when they don't turn out good at all :-D
Grey 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.

>>4462469
This, or don't get into photography in the first place.

>>4462449
Find a way to sell pictures to furries

>>4462436
its 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

>>4462605
That 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

>>4462643
that 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 Lorikeet
SOOC, 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

>>4463376
the bird clearly doesn't think it's unnatural

>>4463849
>>4463852
>>4463888
Love these, what kit are you using?

pals

z8 and the 180-600

i 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

>>4463894
meant to (you) you to u srry

>>4464003
Yeah but they will last a while and you will forget the pain of buying them.

>>4464003
Isn'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

>>4464010
yea i hope at least the lack of the flappy mirror and shutter will tolerate my addiction to burst shooting better

>>4464059
yea 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 before
awsome, what is it

Went for a walk so will post some shitty photos

So 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

>>4464182
you just have to get lucky with fairywrens really

kookaburra

Song Sparrow

My favourite bird
Juvenile 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
>>4464598
Nice 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

>>4464834
Actually 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?

>>4464834
definetly AF
half the point of the fancy new cameras is AF speed, it matters alot for birding

>>4464836
400mm is a noticable step up imo
its only after 600mm where it gets negible

>>4464834
i 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?

>>4465058
cutes

Here's a dipper

Kite

>>4465197
nice

>>4464181
Just a Ruffed Grouse.

>>4465098
I'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
>>4465680

Thank you! These are gorgeous shots

>>4465197
Hey man, nice shot.

>>4452845 (OP)
Hey man, nice shot.

>>4465197
kino

>>4465887
what are you shooting on

>>4465916
Pentax K200 with 55-300 f4-5.8 lens

It's not the best for bird pics, 10mp feels like too little, like 99% of the pics I take are absolute shit

brrrrrraaaaaaaap

solitary! sandpiper! real flighty. did not walk close.