The Magic Hole

K9Kirk · Jan 16, 2022

Taken back in Dec of '20 but never processed. This water hole always looked great just before sundown.

MitchP · Jan 16, 2022

Beautiful!

Jeff15 · Jan 17, 2022

Very good shots.....

jeffashman · Jan 17, 2022

Wonderful capture with the concentric circles! #1 for me.

K9Kirk · Jan 17, 2022

MitchP said:
Beautiful!

Thanks, Mitch.

Jeff15 said:
Very good shots.....

Thanks, Jeff.

Thanks, Jeff. That's one of the things I like about it also.

Lez325 · Jan 18, 2022

No1 for me too - there is a slight motion blur on the 2nd image = around the head

:Les

K9Kirk · Jan 18, 2022

Lez325 said:
No1 for me too - there is a slight motion blur on the 2nd image = around the head

:Les

Thanks, Lez. Yeah, I saw that blur, too. I kind of figured it would turn out that way when I took the picture because I was trying to get a low ISO @ 1/200 sec. when the bird did that unexpected food toss. As you can see, the low setting worked out ok in #1 when the bird wasn't moving fast. I'd thought about not posting it but I couldn't pass up a food toss. :wink-6:

Lez325 · Jan 19, 2022

K9Kirk said:
Thanks, Lez. Yeah, I saw that blur, too. I kind of figured it would turn out that way when I took the picture because I was trying to get a low ISO @ 1/200 sec. when the bird did that unexpected food toss. As you can see, the low setting worked out ok in #1 when the bird wasn't moving fast. I'd thought about not posting it but I couldn't pass up a food toss.

1/200th sec?? that's rather slow in my book- I try to achieve 1/2000th sec if I can - this means pushing the ISP way high, that said Sony Mirrorless bodies can handle noise extremely well up to ISO 6400

Les

K9Kirk · Jan 19, 2022

Lez325 said:
1/200th sec?? that's rather slow in my book- I try to achieve 1/2000th sec if I can - this means pushing the ISP way high, that said Sony Mirrorless bodies can handle noise extremely well up to ISO 6400

Les

My camera doesn't handle high ISO very well so I had the VR turned on, it holds the image very still in the viewfinder and it allows me the low ISO's for when it's dimming around sunset. I generally don't use the VR for birds in good light and usually go with a min. of 1/1600 sec.