Sunday, February 15, 2009

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Geese and ducks have arrived

abandoned the local birdlife, this afternoon I went to the Valley Cavanata shooting a bit 'of mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) and geese (Anser anser). The excuse was to try the new Tamron SP 30A companion zoom, the focal Doubler Tamron SP 01F.

Considering the equipment, the results are pretty good and far exceeded my expectations. To read chromatic aberrations of the zoom, the duplicator has added some 'flattening of the contrast, but both defects are easily remedied in post-production. The gallery of the best photos is on Picasa.

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Female Doctorpenis Exam

tits

The jay has ceased to be seen, on the other hand, came the great tits, a standard in Europe and fond of sunflower seeds, cheese and bread. With the return of the sun, after being absent for several weeks, I realized that it did not very well positioned because the roost is back for the afternoon.

in this round of catch, to improve the focus, I increased the depth of field by stopping down one stop, from f8 to f11. Accordingly, I increased the sensitivity from 200 to 400 ISO to compensate for the increase in shutter speed (which is maintained at around 1/60s).

I do not think the performance overall picture has improved much, the next time I return to 200 ISO and I will try to illuminate the scene with a flash. In theory, since the distance from the perch of the machine is about 4.5 m should be sufficient built-in flash of the K100D.

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Asus Maximus Core 2 Quad

Trap focus

After the limited success of the mangers of the winter 07/08. For much of this winter I have not furnished any manger and have fed the birds in the garden with only the odd leftover bread, until I noticed a jay that was a steal. So I decided to mount a perch and packed with sunflower seeds, of course, a few weeks after the seeds sprouted but there was not even the shadow of jays, titmice, doves, blackbirds and magpies.

Yesterday afternoon I decided to put the pieces of stale bread in a manger near the roost. Within half an hour the jay had disappeared all the larger pieces. Following the instructions of the "Focus Trapper "I have set up a camera trap to capture the moments of the robbery. Yesterday I had no luck and today I thought I had not had much luck in the early afternoon because I had noticed that the camera had run out of batteries.

I wanted to publish a post on this experience, and then I had been to look among today's shots, a few decent photos of the roost. To my surprise, among the photos of my hand used as a subject to verify the location of the fire, I found some shots of the jay has repeatedly raided the crib without anyone noticing it)



Pentax K100D, Tamron SP 80-200 F/2.8 (30A), @ 200mm, f8, 1/125s, ISO 200