Take Off!

[JimFox]

This is back from May at a Nature area near my daughters house in Northern Colorado. This is why I love to run with a camera or two slung over my shoulders.

I caught this guy taking off. Normally, I am too slow on pressing the shutter, or I just press the shutter once, too many years of Landscape Photography. To keep the shutter button pressed down longer then the initial image doesn't compute with my brain, so I miss tons of bird images.

But I am working with my brain and my finger and it's getting better slowly.

Nikon Z6III
Tamron 50-400mm - The perfect little lens. While 600mm would be nice on it, the versatility of how small it is, makes up for it.

All comments are welcome,

Jim

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[AlanLichty]

Good sequence. Having a good fast capture rate is nice for sports but even better for birding.

Doesn't your Z6 III have precapture where it buffers up a few shot when you have the shutter button pressed halfway?

 

[DES]

A very nice sequence! You give the lens credit, but that's just a small part of the result you achieved.

 

[JimFox]

Good sequence. Having a good fast capture rate is nice for sports but even better for birding.

Doesn't your Z6 III have precapture where it buffers up a few shot when you have the shutter button pressed halfway?

Thanks Alan.

It does actually, but I think only in Jpg. But jpg would probably be fine for this. The problem is, I never think about setting that up until I am out in the field... I have to remember when I am not busy.

 

[JimFox]

A very nice sequence! You give the lens credit, but that's just a small part of the result you achieved.

Thanks Darryl!

You are right, the rest of the credit goes to the Z6III.

 

[AlanLichty]

Thanks Alan.

It does actually, but I think only in Jpg. But jpg would probably be fine for this. The problem is, I never think about setting that up until I am out in the field... I have to remember when I am not busy.

The setup for all the neat stuff on my camera for sports and birding are far too complex for me to try to work up on the fly and none of what goes into that is applicable to my usual landscape work so I worked up all the settings for birding and saved the settings in one of the custom profiles. I followed that by ripping it all out for my preferred simple landscape settings and saved that as another profile. That way I can switch back and forth by just calling up the right profile. At least on my camera there are several different autofocus parameters to configure for recognizing animals and track them when they move. No way I want to have to set all that on the fly.

 

[Trent Watts]

Nice one Jim. Looks like you are well on your way to officially becoming a bird photographer!!

 

[JimFox]

The setup for all the neat stuff on my camera for sports and birding are far too complex for me to try to work up on the fly and none of what goes into that is applicable to my usual landscape work so I worked up all the settings for birding and saved the settings in one of the custom profiles. I followed that by ripping it all out for my preferred simple landscape settings and saved that as another profile. That way I can switch back and forth by just calling up the right profile. At least on my camera there are several different autofocus parameters to configure for recognizing animals and track them when they move. No way I want to have to set all that on the fly.

Nikon has that ability too. The problem is I never remember to set it up so it's available. It's probably not that hard to do on the fly, I just need to check it out I guess.

For the Autofocus change between birds/animals/people it's actually super simple and I can change that in 5 secs. So I will do that, as it's easy. I just need to go look up setting up that burst, I can move it up onto the shortcut menu maybe, or atleast know where it is in the menu.

In fact, I will do it right now!!!!! Well, first I have to reply to Trent...

 

[JimFox]

Nice one Jim. Looks like you are well on your way to officially becoming a bird photographer!!

Thanks so much for the kind words Trent.

I don't think that will happen, as I don't have the patience for it still. I can't wait for hours for them to show up, but I am at least getting a little better at capturing them when they come to me.