{"id":1049,"date":"2008-01-17T23:01:27","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T23:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1049"},"modified":"2013-11-23T00:46:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T00:46:02","slug":"some-more-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/some-more-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Some more birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

The weather continues to be what is euphemistically called 'miserable'. Overcast, with a fine drizzle. Since I wasn't keen on getting wet or muddy today, I headed for the small sheltered garden where there are always a good number of smaller birds. Mainly sparrows, but also a variety of tits, finches and occasional wagtails among others. <\/p>\n

After a couple of test shots I decided to try the teleconverter again, using flash to combat camera shake and the poor light. My success rate was low. I took 140 shots. 77 were deleted as soon as I uploaded them to the PC as unusable. Of the remaining 63 worth at least looking at, there were maybe a dozen worth editing. At a stretch the success rate was about 10%. The main problems were camera shake, over exposure, under exposure (or flash not recycling in time), out of focus, or (more rarely) the bird moved a moment before I took the 'perfect' shot. <\/p>\n

On the plus side, I'm really happy with the shots I did get. <\/p>\n

Sparrow<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n

Blue tit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Chaffinch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

There are a couple more from today in the January Birds<\/a> album.<\/p>\n

Camera note: all shots taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens + kenko 1.4x TC<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-birds","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t