p.6 #7 · Nature and Wildlife image thread - a Sequel
Just completed last week my 3 week return window for a used A1. I was more than 4 years late to the small BIF party as I thought my current gears (A9 and A7IV, before the trade-in) are to last me for several more years. I could get some lucky/usable small birds BIF shots from those gears and also on my two other photographic interests (insect macros and flower shots), I am affordably geared.
I was wrong when my soon to be 70 years old arms, legs and eyes started complaining of spending too much time and effort in the field just to increase my lucky/usable shots on small/erratic BIFs. Furthermore, while most captures showed good details, often were small enough to be adequately cropped/shared. To sum it up - I caved in and traded those two mainstay bodies plus some other gears for the A1 for better performance and cropping capability (mostly for small birds BIF).
Issue so far: Even just using H burst setting (not yet the H+) and doing mostly short burst shots, having problem now with culling (setup at jpeg + raw). Like a recent Western Grebe rushing shots, a long burst follow up tracking already produced 100+ frames (double since jpg + raw). For small/erratic BIFs, there would be lots of misses of course and therefore added frames to look at. Other than that for now, initial results were quite satisfactory. Samples of Yellow-Rumped Warbler lucky shots below. (note: those with less than 10% crop as noted, I evaluated Topaz Gigapixel for 1.5X upscaling as I like to document the moment in a usable form). Adobe raw camera super resolution did not give the results I want on small captured subjects. Will keep on playing with PP.
p.6 #11 · Nature and Wildlife image thread - a Sequel
Peire wrote:
Lovely little,furry creature with provocative,cute eyes.I'd like to keep it at home!
Yes, Marmosets are indeed cute. I was determined to take their pictures when I was in Ecuador. Our guide was told that a family of Pygmy Marmoset lived at a certain location. A local villager guided us to the site. It was drizzling in the PM and we trekked for some 30 minutes in the forest on a slippery path. Finally, upon arrival, we searched and searched but couldn't find any. Since they are tiny and above a certain height up in the tree, we couldn't spot them that easily. The light was getting dimmer and dimmer inside the rainforest. So, we gave up the search that day.
Two days later at a different location, our guide asked around again and this time around we were told that there were a few that lived near the river we traveled to and from the Amazon basin. This time around, we hit the jackpot! They were not that high in the trees and the lighting conditions were significantly better. Yes, those images were captured from the last spot.
I was a bit trigger happy that day and yes, I used pre-capture a lot... although I lowered the frame rate to 20fps. I left out a few before and several after these files
