6/6/2010
Song Sparrow on a Post
Happy Sunday!
Brought to you through the magic of digiscoping. Nothing like it. I was 30 feet or more from this little guy. This is about as close to a bird-in-the-hand view as you can get. On my laptop monitor he is close to life size right here, and I could view him at several times life-size.
Canon SD1400IS Digital Elph behind the eyepiece of a Zeiss Diascoope 65FL. Equivalent focal length about 3500mm. Exif f5.0 @ 1/320th @ ISO 80. Programmmed auto. Computed f-stop based on the scope/camera combination: f9.6.
In Lightroom, some Recovery for the sky, a touch of Fill Light to compensate for Blackpoint right. Added Clarity and just a bit of Vibrance. Sharpen landscape preset.
I zoomed back to get the full bird in full song. This one is at about 1800mm equivalent. Note that the bird has its nictitating membrane over the eye.
And here is the video, along with a curious passerby.
I like your video, but where was the curious passerby?
On the audio track…just asking if I was getting any good shots and calling his dog 🙂
I haven’t digiscoped, but every time I see your images I keep thinking that I ought to take it up.
The second image is fantastic, what a super invocation of life.
this is excellent thanks for sharing!!
wonderful photos, specially the second, it really captures the essence of birdsong. I loved watching and listening to the video, it was nice to see him stop and listen between singing his phrases. Over here our sparrows don’t sing as such they just chirp.
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