A couple of couples

Radley

Backyard birds close up.

Baltimore Oriole male


Blatimore Oriole female


Northern Cardinal mlae


Northern Cardinal female

donek

These are great. How do you get this close?

Jody Melanson

I'd say you were close up! Love the last portrait of the female Cardinal.

Maestro

That last pic is stunning with all that detail and I think it is the best one!

Radley

donek wrote:

These are great. How do you get this close?

Thanks Sean. I really wasn't all that close. Really good glass and low ISO lets you do some amazing crops.

Radley

Jody Melanson wrote:

I'd say you were close up! Love the last portrait of the female Cardinal.

Thanks Jody. The little girl Cardinal is very approachable and practically a pet. She will come within a couple of yards to holler at us if her feeder is empty and will tap on the window to get our attention if we are indoors.

Dick on Aruba

Very impressive, well done

Thanks for sharing,

Dick.

Radley

Maestro wrote:

That last pic is stunning with all that detail and I think it is the best one!

Thanks Stephen. You can get some good stuff when you bribe the model!

Radley

Dick on Aruba wrote:

Very impressive, well done

Thanks for sharing,

Dick.

Thanks for looking and for the nice comment Dick.

donek

Radley wrote:

Thanks Sean. I really wasn't all that close. Really good glass and low ISO lets you do some amazing crops.

So what's youre really good glass? I have a 200-400 f4 Nikkor lens on order. It's ssupposed to be one of the only long lenses by Nikon that was designed specifically for digital. I've been told image quality is actually better than the 400 f2.8.

Ric Grupe

The oriole female is great!

With a perfect focus 100% crops are the only way you are going to get a close up of a small bird.

Well done.:D

Image Maker

Very nice pics. Interesting angle on the male Cardinal. It's nice that you have them so close and "trained"!!!!
Deb

Radley

donek wrote:

So what's youre really good glass? I have a 200-400 f4 Nikkor lens on order. It's ssupposed to be one of the only long lenses by Nikon that was designed specifically for digital. I've been told image quality is actually better than the 400 f2.8.

The Orioles were taken with the Canon 500 f4L IS.
The female Cardinal was with the 500 and 1.4 extender.
The male Cardinal was with the Canon 300 f4L IS and 1.4 extender.

Radley

Thanks Deb. It was taken out the bathroom window!

Radley

Ric Grupe wrote:

The oriole female is great!

With a perfect focus 100% crops are the only way you are going to get a close up of a small bird.

Well done.:D

Thanks Ric!

donek

Ric Grupe wrote:

The oriole female is great!

With a perfect focus 100% crops are the only way you are going to get a close up of a small bird.

Well done.:D

This isn't the most impressive species, but it is uncropped. I noticed the birds at the feeder came back while my wife and daughter played in the sand box only about 15 feet away. I went out with the Sigma 50-500 and I believe a 36mm extension tube and sat and waited. They weren't the most willing feeders, but they did come back a couple times. I think with a blind it might be more successfull. iso 400, f11, 1/160, 500mm (plus extension tube).

donek

Oops! Heres the uncropped shot.

Radley

donek wrote:

This isn't the most impressive species, but it is uncropped.....

I am kind of partial to Lark Buntings Sean. Probably because they don't occur locally. Very nice shot.

dbaker1221

great captures!

Radley

dbaker1221 wrote:

great captures!

Thanks Dave

raptorcaptor

Nice set Claude!