AC241849-En 1 e1
Two Goldfinches squabbling near the feeders. The lower down bird is tweaking and twisting the primaries of the upper bird. All over in a few milliseconds.
I have a go at these interactive riots of our small birds every year. The camera body upgrades have made things easier with the wider range of the Procapture feature which is continually reording images to the buffer, and much better higher ISO behaviour. But it really is a lottery, having set out one’s stall, will the birds conform to what was expected of them? The answer is very rarely indeed.
Modest sunlight reflects on the loch and the trees about 1km distance for a relatively clean and simple background.
At one point the shutter speed was on a more satisfactory 1/4000th which would have ensured this image was better defined. But the light came and went with the showers and clouds today. I long ago decided that unsufficient light was the bugbear of this style of image making.
AC241849-En 1 e1
Two Goldfinches squabbling near the feeders. The lower down bird is tweaking and twisting the primaries of the upper bird. All over in a few milliseconds.
I have a go at these interactive riots of our small birds every year. The camera body upgrades have made things easier with the wider range of the Procapture feature which is continually reording images to the buffer, and much better higher ISO behaviour. But it really is a lottery, having set out one’s stall, will the birds conform to what was expected of them? The answer is very rarely indeed.
Modest sunlight reflects on the loch and the trees about 1km distance for a relatively clean and simple background.
At one point the shutter speed was on a more satisfactory 1/4000th which would have ensured this image was better defined. But the light came and went with the showers and clouds today. I long ago decided that unsufficient light was the bugbear of this style of image making.