<\/span> <\/p>\nThen a heron. Next, a swan. The Egyptian geese were in combative mood… Finally a parakeet in search of love \ud83d\ude09 I have to say I am very impressed both with the ease of using the 7D (having a view finder that you can see through is literally an eye-opener) and the quality of shots. These were all taken at ISO 400, and most of them have had no noise reduction applied and only very basic preparation for posting. For the swan I utilized one of the menu settings which prioritizes highlights. There are other settings I want to play with, particularly some of the options for tracking birds in flight though the defaults work well enough. A lot to learn, but I'm going to enjoy the curve \ud83d\ude09
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The last parakeet shot is the hen (for those who are interested). That sequence was taken across the lake and the shots are all very heavily cropped.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/span>
Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980,989],"tags":[683,680,1179,684,339],"class_list":["post-1843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-egyptian-goose","tag-great-crested-grebe","tag-heron","tag-ring-necked-parakeet","tag-swan","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