Polly wanna cracker?

[Ozzie_Traveller]

G'day all

Visited a bird aviary yesterday and under miserable lighting conditions [deep cloud, light rain outdoors] "I tried me best"

1- The wonderful King Parrot

Panny G2 w- 14-140 @ 140; 1/40s x F5,6; ISO-800

2- Cocky wanna scratch under the chin ... if your'e game!

Panny G2 w- 14-140 @ 65; 1/80s x F5,3; ISO-800

3- White pigeon sitting quietly

Panny G2 w- 14-140 @ 140; 1/500s x F6,3; ISO800

The vast majority of my images [90%] were junked as they were unsharp ... I didn't have my trusty monopod with me - Bugga. Most were shot at max zoom and as light was poor, also max aperture, leading to overall softness. Maybe sharp enough for viewing on a smartfone, but on the computer screen they just didn't have the 'magic'

As always, comments welcome
Phil

[seaslug]

Still look ok on my screen Phil, but I must deduct points for taking the shots in an aviary.

[Ozzie_Traveller]

Still look ok on my screen Phil, but I must deduct points for taking the shots in an aviary.

Yeah Greg ... tend to agree, but I didn't have me 5000mm didgeredoo with me, along with heaps of perfect sunshine, so had to suffer second best
Phil

[HansE]

Look fine at this size. Suppose it depends what you want to do with them. Good for a postcard.

[Ozzie_Traveller]

G'day Hans
Just as an aside, almost every image I upload to the internet is reduced to 800px on the long side [exceptions are panos to 1000px or sometimes 1200px]

My tongue-in-cheek 'joke' to Greg was that to get this sharp / close to / etc. a real subject in the wild would need a bluddy-great-long lens that my hip pocket couldn't handle

fwiw ... back in my working days in Canberra, we [camera club] had a visit from the AFP photog people, who brought along a 2000mm Nikon lens to show us. It was an MTO / catadioptric [mirror] lens, the size of the average circular rubbish bin one sees under so many office desks. They had images taken across Canberra's Lake Burley Griffin to a hotel about 1km away, [showing people at a clandestine meeting] and the image sharpness / clarity was such that we regulars cried into our beers afterwards

Phil

[seaslug]

I thought the extra zero was a typo! .

[LJG]

They look good on my screen as well Phil. Where was it?