Those are nice, crisp images, well framed and with lots of texture and detail in the feathers.
Do you know the name of the bird in 3844? I've got a few of those in my yard as well. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 3:50 PM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote: > I’ve settled on a technique that I think is best for shooting small birds > with my gear. I used the K-1, DFA 150-450 and the DA 1.4X converter with > the camera in crop mode. All were shot off the tripod, f8, 1/1000th. This > setup gives me real tight framing and plenty of buffer space, given the > smaller files. I could shoot the same setup full frame, as the 1.4 > converter causes only minor vignetting, but I would end up cropping to > something like this anyway. The only thing I’m going to change from what I > did here is reduce the shutter speed to 1/500th. Shooting in TAV mode, most > of these ended up at ISO 12,800. The noise is manageable but I think I can > improve on it without any sharpness problems as long as I keep the camera > on the tripod. > > http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=1091926 > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
