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DorsetDude said:
Hi Steve, they are improving.:thumbs:
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Yes. Now the next challenge is to get much, much closer and fill the frame more. But that will require a bit more stealth and patience until they trust you to be nearby. If you can disguise yourself to look less like a human shape then that will help too. A tripod will allow you to have the camera set up ready and you will barely have to move a finger to take the shot. If you have the camera lowered and have to wave it around to bring it up to your eye then you will have more of a problem.

This shot is at 400mm on a Canon 40D and is uncropped. According to the EXIF the focus distance was 2.31m or 7.5'...

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The more you can fill the frame the better the quality of the image.
 
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Im hoping we have some nice weather at the weekend so i can get out and try some shots. The one of the Robin is amazing! Thanks again for all the advice :)
 
Cheers, guys. Actually I'm not so thrilled with that robin photo, but I wanted to show it's possible to get pretty close to wild birds, even if only of the garden variety. Here's a shot from today - no crops, no edits....

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Here's how it looks at 100%....

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It was taken in the car park of a local country park where people often leave seed for the birds. I pulled up a little collapsible stool in just the right position for this perch anf the light and set my camera on a tripod and waited. I'd already observed that lots of birds were pausing here before hitting the seed. It was like shooting fish in a barrel. :)

A few more, all taken at a distance of 3m (~10')....

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Sorry, its been a while :) Something clicked with me yesterday about the exposure/meter, although still not brilliant i think i am definitely cracking it now :)

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tdodd said:
Cheers, guys. Actually I'm not so thrilled with that robin photo, but I wanted to show it's possible to get pretty close to wild birds, even if only of the garden variety. Here's a shot from today - no crops, no edits....

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Here's how it looks at 100%....

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It was taken in the car park of a local country park where people often leave seed for the birds. I pulled up a little collapsible stool in just the right position for this perch anf the light and set my camera on a tripod and waited. I'd already observed that lots of birds were pausing here before hitting the seed. It was like shooting fish in a barrel. :)

A few more, all taken at a distance of 3m (~10')....

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Excellent images Tim and thank you for your posts they have been a great help to me too. The links to adorama tv were very good too I now have a better understanding on interpreting the results on the histogram now.
 
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allotropic said:
Tim, those videos were really useful and helped me understand a little more about my new hobby. I'll make some time in the future and sit through all the videos :thumbs:
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I'm glad they were helpful. There are many good videos in that series and the list keeps on growing.

Back to shooting small garden birds, I had a crack at a robin today at a distance which usually I would consider way too far to make it worth bothering. But with the light in my favour I thought I'd try. Here's the original and then a crop to improve the composition. There are a few other edits, but fairly minor. This was handheld from the comfort of a garden chair. EXIF is intact.

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I think having light in your favour helps enormously with results. The crop is pretty much a 50% view of the pixels.

I also had a sparrowhawk land on the same fence, briefly today, but sadly the camera was indoors at the time. :(
 
Thanks for all help given in this thread, helped me greatly
 
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