My garden #2 - Crested Barbit.

Rudi Venter

Rudi Venter

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This guy, and his family, are not only visitors to my garden but permanent residents with a nest (hollow tree trunk) right in front of my study window. Needless to say I have MANY photos of the bunch of them.

They normally hatch 3 batches of eggs, 2 at a time, during our long summer so they are very busy parents!

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Canon EOS 40D with Sigma 50-500mm at 500mm, f 7.1 and 1/200 sec, remote release via USB cable and PC.

The photo was taken using a camera on a tripod permanently looking out a window and aimed at this spot on the branch, I have captured many species in this spot!

Thanks for looking!
Rudi
 
Wow, now that's a colourful bird.

Great capture technique too - are you using Canon's live capture software to trigger the camera on USB?

Sigma lens look sharp - full frame or crop on this one?
 
Thanks Chris!

Yes, I used the Canon software, I can even do it remote by connecting to the PC via Remote Desktop and click from anywhere in the world!

The Sigma is sharp, but it is a long lens so many people say it is not sharp because they do not use proper long lens techniques. In this case it was tripod mounted and I used MLU so it was easy.

It is just about full frame, slight crop on the left hand side to get rid of a leave that caused a distracting blur.
 
Rudi Venter said:
The Sigma is sharp, but it is a long lens so many people say it is not sharp because they do not use proper long lens techniques. In this case it was tripod mounted and I used MLU so it was easy.
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how would you describe as "proper long lens techniques" out of interest?
 
Very nice looking birds you have in your garden and a cracking good shot of it...
 
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