[rod_grant]

all with K3 and DA300+ TC and cropped. The last swallow was a fluke

Taks, the eagle fishing blew me away. That is great.

[Ducatigaz]

A very obliging Wheatear. K3ii/FA*600mm F4 ED [IF]/RRS BH-55/Kirk window mount.

[jacamar]

Looks like Northcoastgreg's swallowtail above, but taken along way from California!

[taks]

Taks, the eagle fishing blew me away. That is great.

I appreciate the kind words. Thank you Rod

[Charlie Victor]

A very obliging Wheatear. K3ii/FA*600mm F4 ED [IF]/RRS BH-55/Kirk window mount.

A series of brilliant captures, as always. You certainly get the best out of your long lens combo's!
Best.

[Ducatigaz]

A series of brilliant captures, as always. You certainly get the best out of your long lens combo's!
Best.

Thank you.

[Basie]

Arrow marked babbler

[Charlie Victor]

Nice capture! Did you use a tc with your 300mm?
Best.

[Basie]

Nice capture! Did you use a tc with your 300mm?

Thanks Charlie Victor


Yes that is with DA300 f4 and Pentax 1.4 WR TC. I do think it works better than the 300mm and cropping.

[Lowell Goudge]

I guess I should be posting here also, but for now I’ll just put the link.

I recently acquired a DA560, and am going through the learning process.

The photos are labeled based on the number of days since getting the lens
Lowell Goudge's Album: Learning the DA 560/5.6 - PentaxForums.com

Some have been cross posted in the post your photos forum also

[WPRESTO]

So far I haven't found the right placement of strobes to get all the iridescent feathers on the throat flashing their distinctive ruby-red.

[cooks333]

So far I haven't found the right placement of strobes to get all the iridescent feathers on the throat flashing thier distinctive ruby-red.

Great shot, Presto! Love the feather texture on hummers.

[mroeder75]

So far I haven't found the right placement of strobes to get all the iridescent feathers on the throat flashing thier distinctive ruby-red.

There are so many remarkable bird photos on this thread. So, I try not to remark, or I would be remarking all the time. This one is so remarkable, I cannot help but tell you how very good it is.

[WPRESTO]

Thanks to cooks333 and mroeder75 for their compliments. Photographing hummers is a matter of getting a set-up and trying again, and again, and again. They are so fast, move so unpredictably, AF is hopeless, getting them framed properly is almost an accident. How to manage? Use MF to prefocus in the area where they hover briefly when they pull back from a feeder, use manual strobe at the lowest possible power output (=shortest flash time) to eliminate blur as much as possible and do the photography either early AM or late PM when there's minimal sunlight to compete with the strobe. Set up an artificial background if you don't want the bird against black (I have many of the latter for a feeder position where it's very difficult to use one of my painted backgrounds). Use a FL wider than needed = don't even think about filling the frame, plan to crop in PP. I'm planning to work more with the hummers, hoping to get a fully illuminated throat on a male.

[Lowell Goudge]

Here are a couple of shots from my new DA560, I am still learning with it





As mentioned in an earlier post, I have started an album of my learning experiences. I cross post to the post your photos, many of them.

Lowell Goudge's Album: Learning the DA 560/5.6 - PentaxForums.com

I have also done a review. The interesting thing to me is although I spent a bit of time setting it up for tripod mount, I have yet to use it on a tripod.