On Mar 1, 2010, at 6:20 AM, Christian wrote: > What you find, with patience, is that they return to the same perches over > and over again. The trick is to pre-focus on a perch and stare, unblinking, > into the viewfinder until the little bastards return. Never think, "oh that > other perch is better" and swing the camera somewhere else because murphy > will bite you in the ass and the bird will go to the original perch. That's > how I got this guy: > > http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bNuA-oAASYY/SXZe0S7BO8I/AAAAAAAAAB4/8FtMwrSKfss/s1600-h/black-crested_titmouse_IMG_1866.jpg
I think you're right as they were tending to perch in the same places a bit. I took quite a few shots in the area around #1 until I saw the shutter speed and thought there's no way any of those will work. You can see at the top an out of focus branch. I thought that had ruined the shot until I cropped the top of it out so it's less distracting. I had a few goes at the last one with him facing in different directions but that was my pick. I think this is my favourite photo of the whole session as there isn't anything distracting in it. Thanks to everyone for all the comments. I still love that FA 200mm lens. And I need to get my printer up and running again. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
