That's still a pretty nice image, Frank. We have a lot of these birds at our thistle feeder, and they are indeed hard to capture. They never rest very long in any one place.
Good work as usual, Frank. Dan On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 7:12 AM, frank theriault <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm rather obsessed with these little guys, but they're rather hard to > get. Small, quick, they let me get ~almost~ close enough to shoot > with 200mm, then take off. In several months, this is about the best > I've gotten: > > http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/american-goldfinch.html > > I need longer glass, because this just isn't sharp enough (heavily > cropped). I never thought I'd hear myself say it, but I need more > mm's. 300, 600, whatever. First I need more money. To get that I > need a better job. > > I'm getting sucked into the vortex, the black hole. > > AAAAaaaarrrggghhh! > > Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. > > cheers, > frank > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
