First walk and shoot C&C

[Marc-Etienne]

I got really lucky last week and randomly met with another wildlife photography enthusiast, randomly in a park while I was practicing and learning my bosma (Sigma150mm-500mm). I was shooting simple chickadees on a bird feeder when he told me about a wood on Amherst Island in lake Ontario called Owl wood. Well guess what it deserves its name! Can't believe I didn't know that place existed! I went there with a friend and walk around for some models! Definitively heading back there in early spring. Feel free to C&C!

#1 Saw whet Owl
Sigma 150-500mm OS
500mm
f/6.3
1/400s
ISO 400
+0.3

#2 Saw whet Owl
Sigma 150-500mm OS
500mm
f/6.3
1/250s
ISO 400
+0.3

#3 Bared Owl's butt
Sigma 150-500mm OS
300mm
f/6
1/200s
ISO 400
+0.3

#4 Hairy woodpecker
Sigma 150-500mm OS
500mm
f/6.3
1/1000s
ISO 400

#5 Chickadee
Sigma 105 macro
105mm
f/11
1/200s
ISO400
Reproduction ratio ½

#6 Chickadee
Sigma 105 macro
105mm
f/11
1/200s
ISO400
Reproduction ratio ½

The chickadee's shot are not crop at all. Those little guys were quite friendly!

 

[Marc-Etienne]

My little friends are not pretty? Anyone as advice at how to shoot owls like the two first guys (Hidden in a tree)?

 

[Kyna]

Gorgeous owls I personally like the tree limbs around them showing where they are.

Chickadees can be so friendly! I remember a friend I had as a kid would put peanut butter and sunflower seeds on her hand and feed them out the window. It was awesome!

 

[LaFoto]

They are very pretty! But there even is a "saga" out and about somewhere here on TPF on "LaFoto and the Birds" (saga in three or four parts?), which will show you that bird photography and LaFoto are two things that don't want to go together, hence I can't offer you any idea as to how to photograph HIDDEN birds any better than you already did.

 

[Marc-Etienne]

Thanks Kyna! Those little guys didn't really care about me creeping at them having lunch. One even manage to bounce inside my sigma 150-500mm hood! I won't restart the filter/hood debate here but...:lmao:

LaFoto, I just read your saga 1 & 2 it can be very frustrating sometime. You look at EricD's photo on this forum from stuff he shoots down in Florida!! Crazy! It makes me so happy when I have 2-3 good pictures out of several hundreds! Birds are probably the most awesome models!

 

[Frequency]

They are very nice

Regards

 

[Marc-Etienne]

Thanks Frequency! That hike in the freezing cold weather was definitively a success