I am envious of your ability to capture these with this quality Joe
I have the same lens (70-300) and am either far more scary to wildlife, don't have Florida weather or must be doing something else wrong!
Do I need to say "great series", or shall we take that as read?
I would guess the quality stems from being close enough not to have to crop too much, amongst other things
Last edited by Dave Humphries; 1st April 2013 at 05:01 PM.
Enjoying your pictures, nice to see some contextual background.
Time and a place for tight crops and I think you have the right balance here.
They say you should leave the subject somewhere to "go" in the image, but you seem to have that covered.
Well done, can we have some if your sunshine
here in Scotland please
Howard
Very nice, Joe. As Dave mentioned, it is particularly hard to get these sharp images when shooting such small birds. That adds to your success on this thread!
Cheers...
Joe:
You got some great colors out of that Boat-tailed Grackle. Really nice.
Thanks for sharing those, Joe.
I really love the one of the Loggerhead and the brown Savannah Sparrow seems pops despite the camoflage.
Thanks again!
All great images Joe, love no'1 especially, well done
Good set as always Joe. The simplicity of the Loggerhead Shrike shot does it for me
Nice................
Hello Dave, thank you for viewing and commenting. I am more than pleased with the 70-300mm, focuses fast, lightweight to carry and use. Regarding the crops, the grackle was a minimal crop, the other two were cropped considerably because the birds are small even when reasonably close.
I have two possibilities why the images are sharp. The first might be the light in Florida... very bright like studio lights. The second possibility may be that both the camera and lens are refurbished by Nikon. Whereas manufacturing has a control standard say +3 to -3. If a camera or lens falls in that range it meets standards and is shipped The problem arises if one gets a +3 camera and a +3 lens, the two together make a +6... way over standards. The same is true for -3 camera and -3 lens. Pros will continue to send a lens back until they get one that works for them. Back to my refurbished camera and lens... I believe when a camera or lens is refurbished by Nikon the standards are set exactly in the lab, that may be why my camera and lens is sharp at all distances.