yardkat

D750+Nikon 14-24 No insects, or split toning! Sorry!

Sorry to hear that. :confused: Hopefully things will gradually get back to normal with employment, and you can take advantage of future discounts by the holiday season.

Me, too! For everyone...

I'd love to take advantage of the Z6 deals, was in the plan to do so this summer, but alas, what with the unemployment and all...

We went to see the wild horses again. D750+Nikon 70-200f4 and Sigma 150-600.

We did some social distancing with the wild horses. D750+Sigma 150-600. The last guy looks like he's braying, but he's actually yawning. :)

Shot some full moonrise last week. D750+Sigma 150-600.

This the last photo I took of my Baby Girl Ali, she passed away this Monday , I think a part of me went with her.[ATTACH=full]1340619[/ATTACH]

Oh what a pretty girl. We lost ours a year ago, I still miss her every day. Sending you healing thoughts...

Adventures in orchids. D750+70-200 f4 with extension tubes. The first two are focus stacked. The second one was taken barely 12 hours later. (I'd love to try a time lapse of it opening but it happens overnight, so I'm not sure how I'd light it.) I just focus stacked the inside of the flower and I used a Helicon software trial which was much faster and more accurate than PS. The third one used Lensbaby Velvet 85 and a texture background.

Not a very spring-like image, I admit. I was just screwing around in photoshop yesterday, and this was on my laptop. (My desktop is where I do most of my photo editing and where all my photos are stored, but my husband is in the office 24/7 these days between online grad school and working from home, and this was just something I had on my laptop...) Nikon D750+24-85VR.

The second image is outstanding. Which 24-70 and shooting data and how many stacked images, please?

Hi bgelfand, thanks for your kind words.

 

I have the 24-70 F2.8 E ED IF VR AF-S. I had to look up all those letters, just to be sure. ;)

 

ISO 100, f8, 1/3 of a second. I think I stacked 10 pictures. But I think I took probably 70 pics trying to figure out the app...I found it not very intuitive, and placing the focus points (you place start and end points) was a bit finicky. Also I needed to learn where the best points to place them were. I had been thinking top to bottom, but when I went edge closest to me to very center it was best. I guess you figure that out from doing it enough. So, still learning. I think it's a good app if one practices more often. Also there are a couple of blurry blotches when you zoom in really tight where Photoshop didn't do such a great job, but I don't feel ready to download Helicon.

Two takes of an orchid. D750+Lensbaby Velvet 85 and 24-70. The first was for practice using textures, and for the second I was practicing focus stacking using QdslrDashboard.

The cedar waxwings came to visit our neighbor's tree. D750+Sigma 150-600.

Didn't get out this week, here's one from a couple weeks ago at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. (No bird content. :)

We've talked about a trip to Bear River MBR on Saturday. Maybe we'll stop at Willard Bay on the way. Thanks!

I just read that BRMBR still has lots of hawks and herons, but no eagle sightings yet. Someone said at Farmington Bay they hadn't seen any eagles yet, that in the next couple weeks they'll start showing up. We saw probably 4-6 at Willard. Seems like I saw a pic of one at Utah Lake recently. I'd really like to know where the one that was in my neighborhood was going. :)

Kat, where did you find your bald eagles?

They were at Willard Bay state park. Evidently right now they are everywhere at the bird refuges. In fact, you don't need to go far to see them, one flew overhead in my neighborhood on Sunday.

Got out for a couple hours last weekend in the fog. Nikon D750+Sigma 150-600c. Immature bald eagle and bald eagle.

 

 

Mayhap, but I fear we have veered too far from the original topic. My apologies, @yardkat.

Totally fine! I want future readers to get some good info.

Another way to consider your decision is shooting FF on your D750 and cropping.

I try not to crop *too* much, I crop to 8x10 and then a little more, maybe I just need to get more comfortable with more cropping.

Even worse are the use of audio lures.

Sigh. I guess jerks are everywhere. Disappointing. I seriously thought most nature-type photographers had, you know, ethics and stuff.

BAITING, on the other hand is topic of much controversy

Oh, is baiting a thing? It wouldn't occur to me to do that...Absolutely Do no harm.

If you can afford a Tesla

Hahaha! You're funny. ;)

I would love to do bird photography but the birds usually flee in the woods fifty meters ahead of me when they spy my large white lens and my body movements.

 

I think the answer must be to use a "hide" and let the birds come to you. :oops:

I'm lacking in the proper camo clothing. ;)

Nikon D750+Sigma 150-600, 70-200 f4.

 

I think this is a female Northern Harrier.

 

Rough-legged hawk.

Wasatch Mountains.

Yes, but how do you get a D500 for under $800? I might be interested

 

A girl can dream, can't she? :) (just kidding, i am a realist.)

 

When shooting over water, in particular, the evaporation can degrade image quality over medium to long distances, and the sun accelerates this.

 

That's interesting, I hadn't thought of that but it makes sense. When I'm at/around the Great Salt Lake I always feel like it's hazy. That's partly our air quality. I've tried to google "why is the GSL hazy" and the results are all about our air.

 

A low sun is typically good for photography. It's best to be "there" when the conditions are good.

 

Yes, yes. I do know. I'm just not always there at the right times, but I do know. :)

any chance you could go out during the week sometimes, or do you suffer from employment ?

 

Haha, Yep, I definitely suffer from some employment. In fact, I even work weekends, which makes things difficult. This weekend just lucked into a Saturday night free, so we took off for the weekend. So if I can ever get out, it's Sunday and that's if I don't have a million other chores. Depending on the year I can get busy enough that it's a long time between photography sessions.

 

Knowledge of birds and their behaviors is very useful in photographing them.

Yes, I'm learning tons just by going out a few times, and I follow a couple local birding groups on Facebook and am learning a lot from their conversations, too.

 

Go to Steve Perry's site, Backcounty

Yes! I'd found his youtube page a while back regarding setting up focusing on the Nikon cameras, and found him again last night looking at gimbal heads. Very clear, makes it look easy. :)

 

This is all great info, thank you so much, I have a lot to think about now.

~Julie