Birds (88)

Thank you Joe, Charles and Fred!
Slowly I am getting more and more comfortable with this lens, at least for static birds... But I still have a lot of work to really control the beast.

Here are few desert birds from today, when I drove a little off road on my way to work:

Hooded wheatear

Sony ILCE-7RM4 + Sony FE 200–600mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS (SEL200600G) | 600.0 mm | f/6.3 | 1/1600 sec | ISO 320

White-crowned wheatear (young)

Sony ILCE-7RM4 + Sony FE 200–600mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS (SEL200600G) | 600.0 mm | f/6.3 | 1/800 sec | ISO 320

Desert lark

Sony ILCE-7RM4 + Sony FE 200–600mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS (SEL200600G) | 600.0 mm | f/6.3 | 1/1000 sec | ISO 320

And finally, just in front of my work:

Grey heron

Sony ILCE-7RM4 + Sony FE 200–600mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS (SEL200600G) | 600.0 mm | f/6.3 | 1/1600 sec | ISO 320

rovhazman wrote: Slowly I am getting more and more comfortable with this lens, at least for static birds... But I still have a lot of work to really control the beast.

You're clearly on the right path. I think taking good pictures of birds in flight can be fairly hard with any long telephoto since the first challenge is to keep tracking the subject. And some way I have started to feel that for some situations Sony RX10 IV might be tad easier to handle since it is smaller and lighter than ILC and long lens, although the latter may win in absolute image quality (resolution and noise characteristics mainly).

rovhazman wrote: Here are few desert birds from today, when I drove a little off road on my way to work: Hooded wheatear

I think I like this one best since it is the most colourful picture of the bunch. A tiny minus for the central composition.

rovhazman wrote: White-crowned wheatear (young)

Tad less interesting background on this one.

rovhazman wrote: Desert lark

Since the plumage is not that colourful and the desert habitat isn't that exciting either, I have to say it is ok documentary, but not anything more.

rovhazman wrote: And finally, just in front of my work: Grey heron

Interesting to see the heron in this kind of environment, I'm much more used to see these birds in more lush environment, which might be more photogenic too.

But you certainly managed to find birds in more suitable shooting distance than I did today since I only photographed one bird from distance:

White-tailed eagle (Haliaeeetus albicilla)

α7R III + Sony FE 5.6-6.3/200-600 G OSS @ 600 mm, f/6.3, 1/1600 s, ISO 320

I guess I might better get a teleconverter (or two).

Great Horned Owl. Found him in neighbour's yard.   
Great Horned Owl by Robert Cummings, on Flickr
A77, Minolta 300mm F2.8, 1/160, F2.8.

Domien, that's a great capture. presumably a mating pair?

My first month into birding. So much fun.





Sony ILCA-99M2
Tamron 150-600mm F5-6.3 SSM G2
f/8.0, 500.0mm, 1/500 sec, ISO 1000

This Great Horned Owl has made his/her daylight perch very convenient for me.
Hornbeck, GHO2 by Robert Cummings, on Flickr
A77, Minolta 400mm F4.5, 1/320, F9, 400mm. 50 feet from tree and 30 feet up.

Sleepy ducks







Sony a7ii, Minolta MC Rokkor 1:1.7 f=85mm