{"id":1059,"date":"2008-01-30T22:01:55","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T22:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1059"},"modified":"2013-11-22T23:12:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T23:12:14","slug":"more-birds-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/more-birds-2\/","title":{"rendered":"More birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

In yesterday's post I mentioned that I took around 40,000 photos last year. It sounds a lot, and I guess it is; but it actually works out at just under 110 photos a day. <\/p>\n

I'm not going to deny that this is somewhat excessive, but part of the reason is that photographing wildlife requires a large slice of luck to get the right moment. Waiting for the exact shot would mean I wouldn't get shots like this<\/a>, or this<\/a>, or this<\/a>. They were all caught while taking a burst of maybe half a dozen shots over a couple of seconds. And when shooting in bursts, the frame count rattles up very quickly.<\/p>\n

So it was that when I spotted a chaffinch today, in good light, I ended up with about 80 frames in a little over four minutes. With the problem of branches throwing shadows, the bird moving around the tree and a gentle breeze moving the bird's perch back and forth, I managed about a dozen decent shots from that lot, and have only edited 7 of them, and uploaded four<\/a>. So that's an effective hit rate of 1:20. <\/p>\n

With experience I'm reducing the number of total no-hopes. I no longer take shots of distant birds against grey skies at huge distances. I know I won't use them. But when a good opportunity presents itself, I succumb! :devil: <\/p>\n

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

As for this goldfinch, it's the only usable shot from 6 or 7 I took. Most of the time one or other branch was obscuring it from view.<\/p>\n

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

Camera note: both shots taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. For the goldfinch I also used the Kenko 1.4x Pro 300 DG teleconverter.<\/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":[33,307],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-birds","tag-photos-2","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","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=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}