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Subject: Re: [OM] Bluebird
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 07:22:44 +0100
They're lovely shots, Joel.  Yes, the bird is perhaps a tiny bit softer, but 
that could be the way the colour shows on the image; and the range of colours 
looks very good.

Chris

On 16 May 14, at 21:51, DZDub <jdubikins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> We have a bluebird in the area.  He seems to use the tree to scope out
> something he likes to eat on the ground.  He dive-bombs to the ground and
> then goes back up to another spot in the tree.
> 
> There are two shots on this page:
> 
> http://myweb.uiowa.edu/jfwilcox/
> 
> The second is not as "classic" a pose, but it shows the bird about to
> launch himself to the ground.  Both are cropped at about what looks like
> 33% pixels on the screen.
> 
> I find it very hard to focus on this guy.  He's so soft and puffy, the AF
> seems to want to grab onto a branch just a bit before him or just a bit
> beyond.  Even at f8 and f11 DOF is pretty shallow with the lens fully
> racked out.  I've never found the lens to focus as well as I would like at
> the long end, or maybe it's just a bit soft at the long end, which is how
> those lenses tend to be.  It is
> what it is.

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