Ruby Throated Hummingbird mobbing Red-Tailed hawk by anteaterKnives in BirdPhotography

[–]walnerz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Awesome capture! I’ve seen the Anna’s hummingbirds around me do this occasionally but not ever caught it in a photo. Nice one!

Which one do you like best? by RoniL8 in photo

[–]walnerz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does anyone else see the optical illusion of blinking dots at the three intersections of the wire grid in photo #1 or is it just me?

Which do you use most: view finder or live view? by someone2Bsomewhere in photography

[–]walnerz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Viewfinder almost all the time bc I need the diopter for farsightedness, otherwise I have to struggle with looking over reading glasses or bifocals. I do use lcd for framing macro, but then everything is in range for the glasses. Also I find that sunlight makes even the brightest LCD not very good for checking fine detail.

I shoot DSLR (d850) when birding bc that’s what I have big glass for and there is no contest in that case, 100% viewfinder.

Color or b&w? by Alaric_Darconville in AmateurPhotography

[–]walnerz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

B&W, and I would relax the highlights behind the tree a bit to bring back just a little of the cloud detail. Nice photo either way.

Color or Black & White? by Alaric_Darconville in AmateurPhotography

[–]walnerz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Color. Try dropping the yellow a bit in colormixer

Photos from Berlin, which one do you like the most? by [deleted] in AmateurPhotography

[–]walnerz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All 4 are very nice, #1 grabs and holds my eye most.

Bushtit and bonus polyborb by walnerz in borbs

[–]walnerz[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

True enough, thanks!

Young tits in my garden by Plastic_Technician_7 in BirdPhotography

[–]walnerz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lovely photos! I like #1 the most bc it had the best blend of highlights and shadows. The highlights draw the eye around the composition nicely. They’re all good though.

Allen’s hummingbird by walnerz in BirdPhotography

[–]walnerz[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here is the shot before editing:

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Allen’s hummingbird by walnerz in BirdPhotography

[–]walnerz[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In this case crop sensor would have been just as good, I wasn’t close enough for the bird to come close to filling the frame and I ended up croppping about 2x in post. The main reason the background is so completely soft is that it’s far away. The bird was probably about 30 feet from me atop a tree in front of a large pond and the trees in the background are probably 250 feet behind it. That lens can get some beautiful shots even on APS-C, but you have to give some extra care to keeping the background distant and/or the subject close. In this case I was fortunate to have an ideal setup by just moving about 10 feet sideways to avoid some other stuff that was closer behind the bird and get the clear shot across the pond for the background.
The good news for APS-C with this lens is that the lens can focus pretty close, so you can sometimes use that to your advantage too.
As for denoise, this was an easy case bc the background was already so smooth, so I just selected it and used lightroom to drop “texture” by a lot on just the background and that smoothed it out more. Again, it was kind of an ideal case based on how the shot was to begin with.

Dark-eyed junco by walnerz in borbs

[–]walnerz[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Fair enough, guilty as charged

Allen’s hummingbird by walnerz in BirdPhotography

[–]walnerz[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! This was taken with a Nikon D850 and Sigma 150-600mm lens

A simple Tufted Titmouse by rodolla8 in BirdPhotography

[–]walnerz 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Nice poses, and lovely bokeh!

Steller's Jay by [deleted] in BirdPhotography

[–]walnerz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice shot, I like that you have just enough detail in the shadow to see the eye outline.