still with the 100mm macro? how close is the camera set up to the bird?
epic photos
100mm, about 1-2 metres away. Depends on what I think is out that day for how close I get the camera. It takes about an hour or so usually for them to get used to it being there before they come back, and the sound of it firing usually scares them away sharpish. I kid you not, I could hear the shutter/mirror going from inside the house through the double glazing in the dining room!
The starling photos, if you hadn't guessed/noticed, have been fairly heavily post processed, they came out horribly underexposed so I used a layer mask and basically masked in another copy of the image with an overexposed version of the bird.
The thing I need to do now is figure out how/where to place the camera so that I can get the birds in a more natural setting, without having the feeder in view...They quite often sit on the bent metal arm of the hook at the top...
