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Forum: Lens Clubs 10-19-2016, 03:34 AM  
300mm plus Lens Club: discuss your long lenses
Posted By Billk
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Black Swan doing the contortionist thing they do.
Forum: Lens Clubs 05-21-2016, 05:19 AM  
300mm plus Lens Club: discuss your long lenses
Posted By Billk
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A rare visitor to the big smoke. A Powerful Owl (Victoria's largest owl species) way up high.

K3ii, DA*300mm F4, 1.4TC, Manfrotto 055 tripod and remote shutter release. Mirror lock up.
Forum: Lens Clubs 05-08-2016, 05:19 AM  
300mm plus Lens Club: discuss your long lenses
Posted By Billk
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Grey-headed Flying Fox, Yarra Bend Park, Melbourne.

Too cloudy for BIF shots yesterday. GHFFs give you very good BIF opportunities when they grab a drink - they skim the river surface to soak their shirt fronts, then hop in a tree and lick it off.
Forum: Lens Clubs 04-25-2016, 03:53 AM  
300mm plus Lens Club: discuss your long lenses
Posted By Billk
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Little Raven*, Mentone Beach, Melbourne, this arvo. K3ii and DA* 300mm F4.

*Probably - raven/crow identification is the second most fraught thing in Oz bird identification after albatrosses.

I think she/ he is saying: "That's close enough human. We're tame but not that tame."
Forum: Lens Clubs 04-03-2016, 06:12 PM  
300mm plus Lens Club: discuss your long lenses
Posted By Billk
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Eastern Greys in the early morning light. Hall's Gap, Victoria.

Only took the wobbly tripod for landscape shots and left the shutter release back at the guest house. Fortunately, there are three kangaroos for every person so you have more than one chance to get the perfect shot..
Forum: Lens Clubs 03-28-2016, 11:33 PM  
300mm plus Lens Club: discuss your long lenses
Posted By Billk
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There is a general problem with music festivals being held in areas with lots of wildlife:


https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jan/20/noise-from-byron-bay-bluesfe...says-ecologist


Here in Victoria, we have most music festivals on farmland. It should be standard practice for minimal ecological impact.
Forum: Lens Clubs 03-28-2016, 11:15 PM  
300mm plus Lens Club: discuss your long lenses
Posted By Billk
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I'm left eyed and every time I have tried to use BBF, I poke my thumb in my right eye. BBF is awesome for right eyed people though.
Forum: Lens Clubs 03-22-2016, 04:45 AM  
300mm plus Lens Club: discuss your long lenses
Posted By Billk
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Here's one in colour.

There are about 60 000 of them so you never have to worry if you miss a shot.
Forum: Lens Clubs 03-22-2016, 04:35 AM  
300mm plus Lens Club: discuss your long lenses
Posted By Billk
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Grey-headed Flying Fox, Yarra Bend, Melbourne.

*Yarra is Wurundjeri for "seriously muddy river." It is a river well-suited to B&W photography. ; )

Flying Foxes always look like they have to concentrate in order to fly. That makes them great subjects. This shot is a bit of a focus miss but people seem to like it and, for BIF shots in particular we shouldn't be too attached to perfect focus.
Forum: Lens Clubs 03-21-2016, 09:43 PM  
300mm plus Lens Club: discuss your long lenses
Posted By Billk
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I usually use spot focus for BIF but sometimes use whatever you call the focus option where you have the centre spot displayed in red and the surrounding 8 spots displayed in pink (That's on my newish K3ii, the K7 doesn't have it). I take the second option for really fast and/or small birds, like swallows and lorikeets and when there is nothing in the background that will get focused on instead of the bird.
Forum: Lens Clubs 02-24-2016, 07:56 PM  
300mm plus Lens Club: discuss your long lenses
Posted By Billk
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I started off shooting BIF with a lightweight travel tripod and a ball head. The results were underwhelming.


I now use a chunkier tripod and a joystick head, which is reverse mounted so I use it with my left hand. This combo usually works much better for me than handholding, especially for soaring and hovering birds.


You need to persevere with using a tripod but you also need the right tripod/ head combination.


Edit; Oops, just saw your follow up post. Beautiful shots!
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