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Aegithalos caudatus - at Sherwood forest Nottinghamshire UK
All taken with Nikon D300 and Nikkor70-300 f4.5-5.6
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Really lovely photos. Excellent quality.
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Great series, love the backgrounds on these.
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Nice shots Plantsman... pics with a pulse not Pulses... ?
There is a small bird over here similar but not the long tail... Chickadee (?) I think they call it...
Were the shots hand held? I too like the blurred out background as I try to do the same... Thanks for the share!
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Thanks for your comments on the LTT images - There are a few places in Sherwood forest where bird lovers hang fat balls and lay seed on fallen trunks. It was the first place that I had a robin feed from my hand; a lasting memory for sure.
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(Jan 29, 2015, 10:35)Rolf Wrote: Nice shots Plantsman... pics with a pulse not Pulses... ? There is a small bird over here similar but not the long tail... Chickadee (?) I think they call it...
Were the shots hand held? I too like the blurred out background as I try to do the same... Thanks for the share!
Kind regards
Rolf
Yes Rolf, all my outdoors shots are hand held, I'm not into lugging a tripod around with me. The blurred background is down to a combination of lens characteristics, distance between subject and background objects (in this case foliage), and the aperture setting. I do use a Manfrotto when shooting my table top setups.
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I don't like lugging the scaffolding with me either, though I do on occasion. With my 500 it is impossible to handhold for more than a shot or two so take a monopod with me when I use that.