Last year when I started my 365 challenge – back on day 30 I spent some time taking photos of garden birds and want to share with you how my photography and bird population has improved.
This morning I headed out into the garden with my Canon 7D mark 11, 28-300mm lens. The crop sensor lens increases the range of the lens, I concentrated on Shutter Priority mode, choose auto ISO and kept the aperture as wide as possible.
These are the results…
Auto ISO and low light meant they were a little bit more grainy than I would like when I cropped in – which meant that I loss some quality, so I tried again – this time with my full frame camera.
My favorite from today – 2 birds together.
Next steps … I preferred the 5D shots, I feel the ISO worked better, but I could not get as close – so it a question of compromise, the far feeder was too far away so it is essential to choose the best equipment for the job – my next step though is to look at movement … I worked out to get frozen flight movement I needed a really high shutter speed around 1/2000 … but then for that to be truly accurate I need to look more at focusing and maintaining focus… I was using Al Servo, but maybe not on the right focusing setting… birds in flight add interest!
Helen's Photo Challenge 
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