Sparrow and Goldfinch in flight

BrentC · Mar 15, 2017

Another windy, cold day, taking photos from the patio door. These are stacked images.

1. House Sparrow

House Sparrow by Brent Cameron, on Flickr

2. Goldfinch

Goldfinch by Brent Cameron, on Flickr

birdbonkers84 · Mar 16, 2017

These composites yeah? They are both lovely. Although bird 2 is a female house sparrow if I'm not mistaken

They have yellow on their bottom beak that's how I normally ID them.

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weepete · Mar 16, 2017

Very nice! Quite difficult to get them in flight and I like the stacks.

BrentC · Mar 16, 2017

Coull3d said:
These composites yeah? They are both lovely. Although bird 2 is a female house sparrow if I'm not mistaken They have yellow on their bottom beak that's how I normally ID them.

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Yeah your right. I'll remember that with the beak. Even with a bird guide beside me I often get it wrong.

I am not sure you would call this a composite. From what I understand a composite is combining distinctly different images together. Since this is the same bird and same background, just stacked, similar to a bracketed image, I'm not sure you can call it a composite. But I could be wrong there to.

BrentC · Mar 16, 2017

weepete said:
Very nice! Quite difficult to get them in flight and I like the stacks.

Thanks. I'm still working on trying to get that perfect focus and sharpness. I have to be pre-focused for these shots. It would have been better if I had more sun and it was in the right position so I could us a smaller aperture, giving me more room for an in focus shot, and still keep above a 1/2500 shutter speed so the wings aren't blurred.