Experimenting With New Camera

[baturn]

First time using high ISO (2000 - 3200). And also the first time using camera's crop mode on the last three. What do you think?


1. Anna's Hummingbird

2. House Finch

3. Purple Finch

4. Steller's Jay

5. House Sparrow (female)

 

[snerd]

What do I think?! Outstanding!!

 

[JacaRanda]

The Purple Finch and Steller's Jay are the ones for me But I love those colors in the last one.

Sweetness!

 

[dannylightning]

great photos..

 

[robbins.photo]

What do I think? I think Snerd is right!

I also think I can't believe I actually said that out loud.. lol

Seriously though, really amazing shots - the clarity is truly spectacular.

 

[baturn]

The Purple Finch and Steller's Jay are the ones for me But I love those colors in the last one.

Sweetness!

Yup, I love it when birds land in that shrub. It seems to work with anything. Thanks.

 

[baturn]

Thanks all. It's difficult to fully express how I feel about this D7100.

 

[tirediron]

Nice! And, nice new toy!

 

[JacaRanda]

I am impressed with it too. This is one of the reasons why ( I hope he does not mind me post/linking it). Check out the settings used.

Great Horned Owl ISO 9000 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

 

[coastalconn]

I am impressed with it too. This is one of the reasons why ( I hope he does not mind me post/linking it). Check out the settings used.

Great Horned Owl ISO 9000 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Baturn, as my Osprey season is ending, I was just thinking yesterday how many useable high ISO shots I got this year that I would have never posted last year. People say gear doesn't matter, but some times it can make a difference in keepers vs the too noisy recycle bin. Nice job in this thread.

JR, I don't mind, but I don't want to hi-jack Baturn's thread. But as you can tell I had almost no light. wide open at 600mm 1/125th handheld and ISO 9000, yuck recipe for disaster. I normally limit the D7100 to ISO 6400 but I had to go higher in the light I had. Sure I lost detail, but at least I got something, lol...

 

[astroNikon]

Great shots.

I liked how you stopped the hummingbirds wings - what was the shutter speed ?

 

[The_Traveler]

Although they are all very nicely caught, I think #2 is the nicest pose.
There is an inexplicable loss of focus on the breast feathers.
The DOF isn't very large at the focal length and perhaps that lens is back focussing a bit, this getting the head in the field but missing the chest.

 

[baturn]

Great shots.

I liked how you stopped the hummingbirds wings - what was the shutter speed ?

1/2000, f6.3 Sigma 150 -500

 

[baturn]

Although they are all very nicely caught, I think #2 is the nicest pose.
There is an inexplicable loss of focus on the breast feathers.
The DOF isn't very large at the focal length and perhaps that lens is back focussing a bit, this getting the head in the field but missing the chest.

Excellent observations. Icalibrated the focus for this lens on my D300s but only did a "oh' that looks about right" on the D7100 so far. Thank you.