John Robinson
01-06-2014, 05:12 PM
One of those days. One from a while back
Went to a new hide set up on a farm where the owner is very helpful( as most of them are). It’s a good spot for finches and it make a pleasant change from the three pool hides. On the way down the track to the farm , I came across a dead woodpigeon.
I thought I might as well stick it out in front of the hide for a fox or whatever. I managed to find a stick with a short angled twig on it and with a bit of penknife work,made a sort of tent peg , and I used this to hold the pigeon down- bit messy but the bird didn’t feel much !!
I stuck some seed down arranged a few perches and settled down. I got some lovely stuff on Bullfinches, Reed Bunting, Jay, Pheasant, Greenfinch etc.
All of a sudden there was a commotion and everything took off. To my surprise two Buzzards had landed about 5 foot behind the pigeon. One took off and the other hopped (in the way that buzzies do ! ) towards the pigeon.
He tried to drag it off but the peg held. He ripped the head off and ate that, and spent the next half hour slowly demolishing what was left. The wind comingfrom the right was blowing feathers all over the place !Took no notice of the camera at all, and I ended up with about 250 shots- vertical, horizontal and even full frame
As Mark Knopfler said “ Sometime it all come together “
D71000
Sigma 100-300 mm
500 ISO
320th @f8
Slight crop on this one.
Levels Paint Shop Pro
White balance auto /warm. White pigeon feathers slightly blue but they are that colour.
Very oof maggy in background taken out- looked like a feather ! Posted this on anotherforum and got the wrong exif.
Made me think about the D4. I,ve just looked at the specs and the D7100 has the same new focus sytem etc, less the sensor filter. It only takes 6 frames a second as opposed to 10 but is that really worth 5 times the price !! I don't think it would make that much difference at my time of life or my pictures. Finding the subjects is the hard bit- not the camera. I must read the D7100 book some time !!! and try some new settings !!!!
Cheers
JR
Went to a new hide set up on a farm where the owner is very helpful( as most of them are). It’s a good spot for finches and it make a pleasant change from the three pool hides. On the way down the track to the farm , I came across a dead woodpigeon.
I thought I might as well stick it out in front of the hide for a fox or whatever. I managed to find a stick with a short angled twig on it and with a bit of penknife work,made a sort of tent peg , and I used this to hold the pigeon down- bit messy but the bird didn’t feel much !!
I stuck some seed down arranged a few perches and settled down. I got some lovely stuff on Bullfinches, Reed Bunting, Jay, Pheasant, Greenfinch etc.
All of a sudden there was a commotion and everything took off. To my surprise two Buzzards had landed about 5 foot behind the pigeon. One took off and the other hopped (in the way that buzzies do ! ) towards the pigeon.
He tried to drag it off but the peg held. He ripped the head off and ate that, and spent the next half hour slowly demolishing what was left. The wind comingfrom the right was blowing feathers all over the place !Took no notice of the camera at all, and I ended up with about 250 shots- vertical, horizontal and even full frame
As Mark Knopfler said “ Sometime it all come together “
D71000
Sigma 100-300 mm
500 ISO
320th @f8
Slight crop on this one.
Levels Paint Shop Pro
White balance auto /warm. White pigeon feathers slightly blue but they are that colour.
Very oof maggy in background taken out- looked like a feather ! Posted this on anotherforum and got the wrong exif.
Made me think about the D4. I,ve just looked at the specs and the D7100 has the same new focus sytem etc, less the sensor filter. It only takes 6 frames a second as opposed to 10 but is that really worth 5 times the price !! I don't think it would make that much difference at my time of life or my pictures. Finding the subjects is the hard bit- not the camera. I must read the D7100 book some time !!! and try some new settings !!!!
Cheers
JR