Bird Shots
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On January 3, 2002, Metro Atlantans
awoke to a two to five inch blanket of snow. And when that happens,
anybody with a lick of sense will STAY OFF THE ROAD! The snow also
covers up a lot of natural bird food, so your feeders are guaranteed a
lot of traffic while it lasts.
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Here in Lawrenceville we got a little over four inches of snow.
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So, with nothing else to do, this seemed like a good time to try
experimenting with "bagging some birds" (photographically,
that is!). So, with the 80-320 zoom fitted and the ZX-50 on the tripod,
we gave it a "shot". Considering that we were shooting through
a dirty window, and the light was less than optimum, we weren't too
disappointed.
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Later, we decided not to waste any more film shooting through the
window. And we finally got around to hooking up the MX, and then the
ZX-M to a cheapo spotting scope we had bought some time before. It
functions as a 500mm f5.6 lens in that configuration, and the results
were real encouraging.
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At first we just had a few images on this page. But, as our collection
grew, we decided a revision was in order. So, off of the
bird list page, if a species has a link
associated with it, follow it to see our attempts to capture them on
film.
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As usual, all images were taken by us, unless otherwise stated. Some
were taken with the old MX and spotting scope combination, but the MX
has since been replaced by the ZX-M. Pictures since are all taken with
either the ZX-50 or ZX-M, with either the 80-320mm zoom, or the 500mm
spotting scope. Occasionally a shot will be taken with the 28-80 zoom on
the ZX-M, or the 35-80 zoom on the ZX-50. Most of the shots are from our
"watching post", a window overlooking the back yard, with the
camera on a tripod, but occasionally we will go "mobile", with
the 320 zoom handheld, or deploying the tripod out front or somewhere
else.
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Selected images are then scanned at 200 or 300 DPI and cropped.
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Check back often!
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