Thanks Jim. High praise coming from you!
Joel W.
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> No apologies needed, Joel. Nice framing, nice focus, and great color!
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
>
> On 5/16/2014 3:51 PM, DZDub 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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