'Most Interesting Photos' - According to Flickr!

Evening,

Well Flickr believes the following are my 'most interesting photos' Click here to see if you agree!

SB

Lowestoft Air Festival...

Morning,

I'm dragging the family up to the Lowestoft Air Festival on Thursday 24th.

I'm hoping to get some good shots of a variety of planes. Apparently the newly restored Vulcan bomber should be flying, along with the usual red arrows etc...

I'm also hoping to visit Minsmere again at some point. May go early morning on Thursday..

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First Photo Published!

Well I was sent a private message from 'Heiky' at 02:00 this morning
regarding one of my bee photos!

She asked if it could be used for an article she's written on
nowpublic.com

Not very exciting but have a look here to see a buzzy friend from my
front garden
http://www.nowpublic.com/environment/bees-lose-buzz-when-sick

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The Weekend...

Well this weekend has been pretty much a working one... and I don't mean photography!

I've been in doing my security patching weekend in London, followed by another load of Oracle security changes across all out production databases - not what you might call fun!

However I did manage to get quite a few shots in the hours I had spare.. I'm starting to get the hang of shutter priority now added with ISO control.

The photos from the weekend are dominated by the Goldfinch and the Greenfinch, although I did get some nice close ups of a slug or two.. and some bees..

Oh yeah, almost forgot.. We went to the Ufford Bygones day at Church Farm, where I snapped a few dogs and a ferret!

Click on either of the photos to view my 'flick' link.

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Garden Birds

Evening,

I've been snapping quite a bit over the last few days, some of the photos have come out really well, some not so clear..

Most of the images are cropped to some degree and were taken approx 20 metres from the subject..

Click on the photo to see more...

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New Bird Feeder Station!

On the way home last night I sneaked in to Wyevale and bought a new bird feeder station..

It's basically a 6ft pole with various arms for more feeders! It's also got a bird bath and feeding tray.

In our garden we've now got
3 Nyjer seed feeders
4 wild bird seed feeders
3 peanut feeders
2 bird baths
3 sunflower / sunflower heart feeders...

I put this together with Oli last night.. No birds as yet but I'm sure there will be tonight... Unless they've all drowned in the rain!

Had a large family of Goldfinches on the Nyjer's last night, the baby was a noisy little fella. I got some photos but the light wasn't perfect! I'll upload them soon..

Here's a photo of the bird feeders, from my conservatory at 100mm with my L 100-400 IS lens..

 

 

Here's another photo, from the same position but at full 400mm of zoom... I'm guessing I'll get some good photos going forward...

STOP PRESS... Got home tonight to discover about 3 Goldfinches all over the Nyjer feeder, not bad considering it's only been there for 24 hours. To be fair though, I'm probably one of the only locals that has a constant supply of Nyjer's...

SB

ISO, Shutter Priority and Black Sheets....

Morning,

I was playing with my camera's semi-automatic settings last night in the fading light of my garden! There were birds galore and with the automatic settings the camera was struggling - too low shutter speed etc...

I decided to 'up' the ISO to 800 and then 1600, to enable me to increase the shutter speed. I was actually quite suprised by the results, not too bad. You do add the risk of getting too much 'noise' in your shot but you still get the shot...

It's nice being able to experiment with the more manual settings on the camera. I actually feel as if I almost know what I'm doing now!!

One thing I need to master now is white balance, so not to get bizarre shades of colours in my photos! sometimes this can make the photo too warm, or even cold...

Been looking at backdrops on the web. I want to get one so that I can start experimenting with portrait photography.. I'll either get a white or black one me thinks.. I'm tempted by black... not sure why though!

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