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    Default Can't beat this eye contact!

    Not the bird, but the spider! I've included a 100% crop below so you can see the spider looking back at you. One bird, three eyes staring you down. Not bad. :D

    I was shooting these guys today as they flew on to the perch, so the technical details are commiserate with that. I think tomorrow I'll try some custom functions so I can quickly switch from "bird in flight" mode to "bird on branch" mode.

    This is a 50% crop.

    1/3200 sec, f/6.3, ISO 1250, 7D, 500mm, manual everything.

    Last edited by Colin Knight; 04-23-2010 at 11:37 PM.

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    Cool to see the spider's eyes, too. Head angle and BG look good, too. It seems you could have lowered the ISO and I would crop a tad off the right to get the bird out of the center.

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    Thanks for the suggestions, Axel!

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    Nice eye contact, cool behavior to catch and nice perch and BG.

    Did you selectively sharpen the bird, or did you sharpen the whole image? I 100% agree with Axel that ISO 1250 was overkill here, hence the noise in the background. The noise also looks a little like it has been sharpened as well?

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    Make sure you check the original post. I was set up for them flying on to the branch, which required high shutter speeds and ISO. Today, I set up a separate custom function with appropriate settings for birds at rest. This allows me to toggle between the two very quickly in manual mode.

    The 100% crop is sloppily made, sharpened only so you could see the spiders eyes.

    The full image has sharpening applied to the bird only.

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