Sunday, October 25, 2009

Bird Bath's are great




Yes Bird Baths are great attractants,this past Friday I stopped by the N.J Audubon in Franklin Lakes N.J, with overcast conditions prevailing I thought my best place to Digiscope would be at this location because of the feeders and Bird Bath, an interesting think that happened when I was staking out my position Patrick the manager turned on the drip system at the bath it was like gangbusters, Robins ,Yellow Rumps, Cedar Waxwings, Catbirds along with 5 more species showed up at the bath, I was like a kid in a Candy store with about 25 feet distance from my subjects, the only downside was the Overcast conditions.

Friday, October 23, 2009

Post Processing hangups


Alot of Photographers Digiscopers alike tend to overdo it at times with Photoshop and other software, the key is you can't make a crappy base picture look good with post processing .
This Savannah Sparrow was just cropped with bad lighting also but it is workable.

Fall Sparrows





Yes an Adult White Crowned Sparrow at last, this one was about 50 feet and the detail could have been a little better but you take some and break some,

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Low Light Digiscoping


With the weather taken a turn for the worst as two Nor Easter storms are in the process of visiting my area till Sunday , I did manage this morning to get one decent Hermit Thrush with some nice Red leaf composition in the foreground and background, as a rule of thumb on dark days the closer to the Bird the better capture which in this case was about 25 feet,also I had to boost my ISO to 200 which I only achieved a 1/75Th of a second shutter speed because of the dark background.
One thing I was surprised about was the noise level wasn't to bad so no need for further processing.

Stilt Sandpiper




The whole time I have been Digiscoping at the Meadowlands, I heard about stilt Sandpiper's lurking about, of course it took me 2 weeks to finally find one mixed with about 30 Lesser Yellowlegs in which can be easily overlooked.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Colormancer Noiseware




Thanks Jerry Jourdan on the tip on the free Photoshop Noise ware plug in , this is pretty good as in other Noise ware programs it is not as brutal on the detail as other's

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Should I crop or not?



It's weird I try to stay away from cropping my captures out of my own personal opinion.
Alot of beginner Digiscoper's feel they can be mega distance away from the subject and still have Crystal clear resolution no it doen't work that way , not only heat haze but cropping can deteriate quality also .
This Greater Yellowlegs and Pectoral Sandpiper were not cropped and were taken from a distance between 40 and 60 feet and still held up, for uncropped photos