As I was doing my laundry the other day I hear this unfamiliar sounds above my head. I saw birds feasting on a ripe papaya in my front yard. I continued my laundry and as soon as I finished I took my time waiting patiently for them to come back.
At first there was one then two and three and four birds feasting the papaya in front of me. They are probably around 5 meters away from me which was a good distance for my bridge camera to take decent shots so I took the opportunity and see how it goes.
I wasn't expecting much from the shots that I took especially since I already have some history doing bird photography with this camera and to be honest it "SUCKS" but I was surprised by the shots that I took this time.
This bird came in late and just jumped at the papaya fruit munching on it even when it didn't even have a proper foothold at the trunk which was kinda funny to me. Since they were busy eating I had the time to properly set the focus points in their eyes.
I was manually focusing on their eyes moving the focus point but then this bird noticed my subtle movements and looked at the camera directly. I was being really careful not to scare them away and blew this perfect chance to do some birding.
Now not just the spotted one but also the black one is now wary of my presence and both of them flew away in a hasty manner. I was really lucky to get some (decent shots) coz honestly the birding I had experienced before was not even usable :(
This guy remained but only for a bit. He paused as he saw me and I was again lucky enough to get the focus plus the composition right (talk about good luck lol) coz for people who does birding know for sure. Birds don't really cooperate to photographers.
Intro
Hello there people in Feathered Friends, it is my first time posting here in this community so I hope you'll be gentle with me 😅. I've been a fellow Hiver for over a year now. As I said above in the photo descriptions that this was my very first "DECENT" birding shot in over a year. I have seen a lot of people posting really good or great pictures of birds using this camera and to be quite honest I always find myself scratching my head as to "HOW". Well most of those bird are either probably very docile or really big. Coz the bird that I shot today is probably around 3 to 4 inches tall and 1.5 to 2 inches thick so it was a really small bird. I zoomed those shots in at 800mm in this camera coz if I used any focal length above 800mm then the images would turn out mushy and soft. Are those shots good? For me "HELL YEAH" it is coz the ones that I shot before were all soft and mushy thanks to using the max zoom of 1200mm focal length.
Now you might think, but all these images are very noisy. I know and I can see it as well but honestly I don't really care coz the fact that I got some "DECENT" enough photos with details and not all mushy and soft makes me quite a happy dude. The eyes is in focus considering I had to manually point that focus point in the eyes and all birders know how hard this is. I was just lucky that I had the perfect bait in front of me to make the birds busy lol.
What do you guys think? Are these bird photos good enough or it is still isn't? I do appreciate if you guys can comment on this since I know that you guys are probably the experts when it comes to birding. Have any of you tried using this camera of mine to do some birding? What are your thoughts? Anyways that is all for me today. I doubt I'll be able to find a perfect opportunity to do some birding just like this day so this is probably my one and only post here in this community unless I buy a real DSLR with a zoom lens. Till next time, see yah!
