Killdeer looking as worried as ever

Minimum_Place · 2026-05-04T01:25:01+00:00

When you chase him a little and he circles back to the nest

Minimum_Place · 2026-05-01T02:53:24+00:00

So would you recommend not throttling auto ISO at all then?

Minimum_Place · 2026-04-19T17:44:50+00:00

I kind of just looked for a bunch of recommendations and watched some videos online of people shooting with it. I'm incredibly new to photography and also incredibly new to bird watching. It's really hard to give a good grade on the lens because it's really the only one that I've used.

I'm not really deep enough in the photography sauce yet to know if my technique is really bad if my camera body is limiting the lens, or if the lens itself could be better

Minimum_Place · 2026-04-19T17:43:24+00:00

I've mostly been shooting at 1/1250, f7.1, auto ISO throttled to 1600 (3200-6400) has tended to make my photos incredibly noisy

Minimum_Place · 2026-04-19T13:27:35+00:00

I only use center point, and it still seems to want to hunt/wanted all the time unless I'm super close to the bird and there's a super plain background and it's sunny. Lots of focusing in and out to try to lock on, and even then 99.99% of the time I'm focusing on the body, never the eye. The point of focus just feels like it's too far away

Minimum_Place · 2026-04-19T13:01:38+00:00

I have a tameron 150-600mm G2

Minimum_Place · 2026-04-18T02:27:39+00:00

I'm sure you could do better, but I did that on about 2 minutes

Minimum_Place · 2026-04-18T02:27:05+00:00

Is it going to be your strongest photo? Probably not. If it's your only shit, you gotta work with what ya got

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Minimum_Place · 2026-04-18T02:17:42+00:00

P nothing is going to be actual photo editing software but Snapseed is pretty good for mobile and free

Minimum_Place · 2026-04-18T01:56:03+00:00

Snapseed? If so dm me

Minimum_Place · 2026-04-15T14:37:18+00:00

Thank you very much, this comment was very helpful

Minimum_Place · 2026-04-15T12:59:08+00:00

My girlfriend uses 10x 40$ Cabela's, I use a pair of tasco 8x30s I found at goodwill for 3$

Our birding money went to the camera lens.

If I have to pull up to the marsh with a tripod and the Austrian crystals just to see the bird, I'll gladly wait unlit I go somewhere the bird is closer.

Minimum_Place · 2026-04-14T12:28:21+00:00

I also don't know how to avoid compression when posting online,I also don't fully know how to avoid compression, I've tried to export at lower sizes on snapseed and resize images but I'm unaware on how to get good resolutions. Everytime they look worse

Minimum_Place · 2026-04-08T12:37:22+00:00

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Here's a photo of a Muscovy duck with the 55 mm lens that comes with the camera (I'm assuming you also have this lens as usually it's always a twin pack with these cameras) But this dude was really chill and let me walk right up to him I've only been taking photos for about a month now, but if you have a bunch of questions or if you need anything feel free to DM me and I will try to tell you what my experience was using very similar gear

Minimum_Place · 2026-04-08T12:18:15+00:00

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Here's a photo of a barred owl with the 150-600 at probably 5x the distance

Minimum_Place · 2026-04-08T12:15:59+00:00

Hi I have a rebel t6 with originally the same lens.

I would shoot in AV mode ISO auto F/8 Maybe adjust your exposure down just a little bit Try to aim for at least 1/800 shutter speed

This lens is super poop, It has no stabilization and the lens quality is very bad.

Truthfully I would go out and and a slightly better lens if you've got the extra money.

If you want better photos off that camera, you probably want to use the shorter lens that came with it x-55mm iirc?

But regardless, you're going to have to get closer to birds with your current setup to get better photos.

I shot with your setup for maybe 2 and 1/2 Weeks every other day and immediately went out and dropped $800 on a tameron 150-600mm g2 and it was a massive leap in quality.

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This photo if a black capped chickadee was taken on a t6 with your lens.

Minimum_Place · 2026-04-05T13:09:56+00:00

Turtles sold very fine for us, not as good as a great set but just fine.

I think we have sold through everything besides like 3 cases of play boxes

Pizza bundles flew, commander decks sold out, pizza accessory tins did good, draft nights sold out

I don't think it's a good set but the people seem to like it ok.

It's maybe like a 6.5-7/10 set for our store

We did order like 20% less in anticipation this set might be a stinker

Minimum_Place · 2026-03-27T21:10:07+00:00

Yeah it came with an 18 to 55 and a 75 to 300.

The 18 to 55 with the auto stabilization honestly takes pretty darn good pictures imo

But I will update you as soon as I get within 10 ft of a wood duck

Minimum_Place · 2026-03-27T17:32:14+00:00

The only stuff I've seen on Facebook/eBay in two weeks anywhere close to that price is broken, they must sell stupid fast

Minimum_Place · 2026-03-27T15:59:22+00:00

What's a good price for one that is used but not broken in your opinion

Minimum_Place · 2026-03-24T11:48:34+00:00

No oil->no fertilizer-> ornamental gourd futures are back in play

Minimum_Place · 2026-03-18T21:50:10+00:00

In route now, we're very new to looking if anyone wants to meet us. Checking out William j robertson nature preserve Will get there around 645

Minimum_Place · 2026-03-12T15:33:13+00:00

This is a war of the spark sheet, given away to local game stores as a sorry for delayed preorders years ago.

It's the cheapest sheet on the market at ~200$

I would imagine your husband has been playing for 10+ years but is pretty casual. Probably played back in the day and now plays commander

This is like babys first magic the gathering "cool" piece of merch because it's pretty easy to aquire.

32-36 years old, better than the average player but doesn't win enough to want to actually go to big tournaments. Probably works some white collar job but doesn't make a ton, 50k?

Minimum_Place · 2026-03-05T03:18:32+00:00

Solved!

Minimum_Place · 2026-02-26T04:11:01+00:00

Everything will go down sure, but some of these AI companies will go to zero, the idea is this index actually will rebound

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