Finally got myself a 150-600 Sigma and these are some of the results from its first outing. It's a steep learning curve and so different from shooting a static model in a studio!
The first is a Siskin, fairly common bird in certain parts of Scotland and the other is the Siskin showing just how aggressive it can be, seeing off a Chaffinch.
Fist time in a hide.
I'm a big fan of the second one in particular! Maybe could have used a touch more shutter speed, but over all really nice!
Light at the time wasn’t that great, Scotland in Winter, and was on 1/3000 at 3200 iso. As I said it was a learning experience....but great fun. Knowing the best shutter speed I imagine is an experience thing......and I didn’t have much!
On the second image, did you crop in a lot? Or, maybe shoot through glass and/or screen? Curious why there's faint gridlines.
Mmmm. No I shot through the small open window. I’m not sure what that is. Yes I did crop in but not that much. I’ll go back to the original image and have a look.
Glen Feshie, just south of Aviemore.
Love the pose and the perch on the siskin.
Love the second photo. I never would have thought about using those settings. I have to get unstuck from 100 iso.