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BamaRose said:
Starmapper, Viewing these photos is better than taking a trip to lake (w/o the mosquitoes....hee! hee!) I'd never be able to get this close to these wondrous creatures in order to see them.
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Thanks...Again in the last bird shot I was lunch for tons of mosquitoes, I was scratching like mad all night :)
 
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Here's an example of getting too close that would normally result in a worthless blurry image. When I hoisted the camera up he was sitting on the branch below but as soon as the auto focus beeped he was gone (as is so often the case) Luckily I was still at 1/4000 and shot anyway getting a reasonable catch.



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Thanks for you advice Starmapper, i'mm going bush this weekend too see what I can come up with. My dilemma will be the shuuter speeds you suggest. I could only afford an f4.5 300mm and not an f2.8. Can't really get anything at 1/2000th or more and I don't want to go any higher than ISO400 cause I get too much noise in the shots,,,, anyway in the end it all come down to how much $$$$ you want to pay for the better professional looking shots I guess.
My lens is only worth a few hundred bucks!
 
shaun1970 said:
Thanks for you advice Starmapper, i'mm going bush this weekend too see what I can come up with. My dilemma will be the shuuter speeds you suggest. I could only afford an f4.5 300mm and not an f2.8. Can't really get anything at 1/2000th or more and I don't want to go any higher than ISO400 cause I get too much noise in the shots,,,, anyway in the end it all come down to how much $$$$ you want to pay for the better professional looking shots I guess.
My lens is only worth a few hundred bucks!
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My 70-300 mil is f4-5.6 and I get lots of pretty decent action shots at 500-640 sec at ISO 200. You don't have to be up at 4000, it's just a great speed for nailing the action with zero blur. To make my slow 300 work I shoot on really sunny days with lots of light at f5.6 using spot focus on the subject and always trying to get a not so bright background like a wall of distant pine trees or dense foliage which gets smeared into a good DOF usually. The Oly E-3 doesn't like much above ISO 800 before it has noise issues especially in low light.
 
Starmapper said:
My 70-300 mil is f4-5.6 and I get lots of pretty decent action shots at 500-640 sec at ISO 200. You don't have to be up at 4000, it's just a great speed for nailing the action with zero blur. To make my slow 300 work I shoot on really sunny days with lots of light at f5.6 using spot focus on the subject and always trying to get a not so bright background like a wall of distant pine trees or dense foliage which gets smeared into a good DOF usually. The Oly E-3 doesn't like much above ISO 800 before it has noise issues especially in low light.
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Maybe I feel a bit more optimistic after reading this!
We'll se what happens, in the meantime, a test shot from last Sunday.

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I got this Duck inpsiration from you, except we have dodgey looking boring ducks here!!!
 
Great thread. I live a few minutes walk from a small protected marsh/wetlands area. Lots of small wildlife to capture. Been looking at camera prices, ect. Enjoying the pics, keep them going.
 
Nice shots shaun, I really like the bird in the first few, never seen one quite like it, cool looking creature. the gull is good also!
 
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