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Little and Large

by Geoffrey Baker

Gallery: Regional: UKNPPosted February 11, 2011124 views10 comments
This is a photo of a Coal Tit and a Great Tit on a piece of driftwood I found on a local beach, I set it up in front of my hide as a perch.

This was only meant to be a practice shot with my new equipment, I was having trouble with the focussing and was taking shots with varying focus adjustment settings.
This one was at the maximum of +20 which I've since discovered was too much, +10 is the correct setting, so I've probably lost some depth of focus on this one, but I think I've got away with it?

Nikon D3
Nikkor 200-400
1/400th
f8
ISO 400
+0.7 stop exposure compensation
330mm
slight crop top and right
The BG is trees with snow on them and bracken behind, lit by the warm Winter's sunshine.

Comments

10 comments
Comment posted by John Robinson on February 11, 2011 at 11:36 AM
Nice pair of ...birds.
I.ve posted quite a few over the years with different species in and for some reason they never seemed to go down that well. Will be interesting to see.
Cheers
JohnR
Registered on March 2, 2008, 535 Posts, 2453 Comments
Comment posted by Neil Burton on February 11, 2011 at 11:40 AM
Nice perch. Have similar problems with Canon focus adjustment so it is not just me :)
Registered on September 16, 2010, 26 Posts, 461 Comments
Comment posted by David Kjaer on February 11, 2011 at 12:00 PM
Hi Geoffrey

Nice to see the two species side by side and both sharp.

David :toast:
Registered on January 4, 2006, 128 Posts, 4170 Comments
Comment posted by Kim Connolly on February 11, 2011 at 1:11 PM
Super shot Geoffrey - both birds nicely detailed - and I love the perch!! :toast:
Registered on June 18, 2008, 14 Posts, 226 Comments
Comment posted by keith mitchell on February 11, 2011 at 3:03 PM
Both look sharp and detailed,good image.
:toast: Keith.
Registered on July 12, 2008, 127 Posts, 1735 Comments
Comment posted by Karen Summers on February 11, 2011 at 4:23 PM
This is a nice shot Geoffrey good to see the two next to each other showing the size of the two birds its amazing how much smaller the coal tit is and the two look nice and sharp
Registered on December 3, 2009, 83 Posts, 818 Comments
Comment posted by Dawn Monrose on February 12, 2011 at 9:33 AM
That's a lovely shot. Perch is great and I really like seeing the two species side by side, nicely composed with a great background and beautiful light. Depth of field looks pretty good from here!

:toast:
Registered on April 7, 2008, 6 Posts, 60 Comments
Comment posted by Mark Davies on February 12, 2011 at 12:52 PM
Great light ,great technique . Both in focus ,, looks good. Whats it like shooting at ISO 400 as a standard ...LOL
Registered on February 3, 2009, 21 Posts, 327 Comments
Comment posted by Geoffrey Baker on February 12, 2011 at 3:19 PM
Thanks everyone :smile:

It makes a huge difference Mark, I haven't even tried to reduce noise, cos compared to my Sony gear there isn't any.
Registered on August 20, 2010, 192 Posts, 980 Comments
Comment posted by Roy Bailey on February 13, 2011 at 9:04 AM
Tried this many times with no success,Nice pose from both and a lovely background colour.They actually look like they were still for a second though probably not. :toast:
Registered on November 16, 2008, 24 Posts, 486 Comments