We have bluebirds who have raised families in our bluebird houses in the
meadow, but I have never managed to photograph them except as a fleeting
presence. Your photo is wonderful!
Tina
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 4:51 PM, DZDub <jdubikins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We have a fruitless mulberry tree between our house and the river with bird
> feeders on the deck. The tree is very slow to leaf out in the spring and
> is a nice staging area for the birds to hit the feeders and then get away.
> I've been enjoying get some shots of finches and chickadees as the roost on
> the branches, mostly with the DZ 50-200, and often that with the 1.4 TC.
>
> We have a bluebird in the area. He seems to use the tree to scope out
> something he likes to eat on the ground. He dive-bombs to the ground and
> then goes back up to another spot in the tree.
>
> There are two shots on this page:
>
> http://myweb.uiowa.edu/jfwilcox/
>
> The second is not as "classic" a pose, but it shows the bird about to
> launch himself to the ground. Both are cropped at about what looks like
> 33% pixels on the screen.
>
> I find it very hard to focus on this guy. He's so soft and puffy, the AF
> seems to want to grab onto a branch just a bit before him or just a bit
> beyond. Even at f8 and f11 DOF is pretty shallow with the lens fully
> racked out. I've never found the lens to focus as well as I would like at
> the long end, or maybe it's just a bit soft at the long end, which is how
> those lenses tend to be. It is
> what it is.
>
> Joel W.
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