{"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<p><!--more-->The weather continues to be what is euphemistically called &#39;miserable&#39;. Overcast, with a fine drizzle. Since I wasn&#39;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<p>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 &#39;perfect&#39; shot. <\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, I&#39;m really happy with the shots I did get. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/sparrow_1701081914.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/sparrow_1701081914.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Sparrow<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/bluetit_1701081938.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/bluetit_1701081938.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Blue tit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/chaffinch_1701081916.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/chaffinch_1701081916.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Chaffinch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are a couple more from today in the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/show.dml?id=441794\" target=\"_blank\">January Birds<\/a> album.<\/p>\n<p><i>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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}