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This is why you are truly the "birdman" of Sacramento.Yes Jack it's a Clapper Rail. This bird was at Arrowhead Marsh near the Oakland California airport. The highest high tide of the year brings them out of the marshes into view.
Guy, I'm using the FM moire reducer when nessesary. So far the worst moire I've seen has been on the California Quail. Why this species I have no clue but here's how it cleaned up:
The moire was all over the gray feathers on the birds chest.
Woody--
I should be so lucky to *see* these images
Thanks Doug--I love your stuff!
That's correct, a captive female American Kestrel, and an adult male Cooper's Hawk.Doug, what are the two small raptors in your first post? (Kestrel? Cooper's Hawk?) They're gorgeous!
Mitch, good point. Given that most of my photos have a significant percentage of OOF areas, bokeh is a consideration when I choose lenses. The f/6.8 Telyts have very nice smooth bokeh, the 280 f/4 is good, not a smooth as the f/6.8 in this respect.Great pictures, as usual, Doug. And it's worth mentioning that the bokeh is good too: for example, in the first picture of the two geense, some 90%+ of the picture is an O-O-F area, which would ruin the photograph if this were "bad bokeh".
—Mitch/Bangkok
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It would help only if the AF "points" can be located anywhere on the viewscreen and can follow the bird at the speed of a neuron and can distinguish between an eye and the near wingtip and doesn't get confused by textured backgrounds.Doug,
Just wondering....do you think auto focus would help in most case ? For example, in the first picture ?