Thanks, Karen! Yes, it's going to be interesting to see how the year progresses... And yeah, I backed off the "chasing" and now focus mostly on the yard...
Anna's nesting at your place?! Just ran out and put out some nesting material for ours. She's been hanging out in a pyracantha so maybe she's nesting in there.
Seems really early! But she's coming for material every morning and was back again today--got some images with the Canon 7D that look so much better than the rebel (thanks again!). Do you work from RAW images or jpegs or both? Not sure which is better...
RAW only but if you shoot RAW you need a good program like Adobe Photoshop (or I think Photoshop Elements) to process them and it's a learning curve. I have been using PS for many years and have the processing down but you may not want to go that route. I can always help with that. Glad you can see a difference in the photo quality.
So many. I've saved lots of marginal photos this way but it can take more time that you might like to spend on one photo. I'll show a few examples in FB Messenger maybe later this evening. Almost every photo of mine that you've seen have been post-processed in Photoshop.
Well, I've deleted many, many marginal photos...yeah, so many photos and so little time. But I'm intrigued. The EOS 7D manual mentions Digital Photo Professional for processing RAW images, and I have a disk with it that came with my Rebel. Maybe a place to start before buying something like Photoshop?
My numbers are struggling still too. I did see a blackcap earlier in the week, which aren't unusual but are not common visitors, so I was pleased with that. This weekend is also our "Big Garden Birdwatch" citizen science programme - one hour to count all the birds that visit your "garden". Normally I contribute a very small number of sightings, an hour is just too short for my garden. I do try and maximise my chances though. Feel the feeders, bird baths, etc and keep my fingers crossed but often the number of species is countable on one hand. Maybe this year will be different.
Good luck with the count! eBird does something similar on occasion, asking people to list birds from their yards over a 24-hour period. I've contributed to it a few times. Are you familiar with eBird?
It's been a strange year for sure, here too. I love that you changed it from Pajama Lister to Pajama Birdwatcher btw.
Thanks, Karen! Yes, it's going to be interesting to see how the year progresses... And yeah, I backed off the "chasing" and now focus mostly on the yard...
Anna's nesting at your place?! Just ran out and put out some nesting material for ours. She's been hanging out in a pyracantha so maybe she's nesting in there.
Seems really early! But she's coming for material every morning and was back again today--got some images with the Canon 7D that look so much better than the rebel (thanks again!). Do you work from RAW images or jpegs or both? Not sure which is better...
RAW only but if you shoot RAW you need a good program like Adobe Photoshop (or I think Photoshop Elements) to process them and it's a learning curve. I have been using PS for many years and have the processing down but you may not want to go that route. I can always help with that. Glad you can see a difference in the photo quality.
Thought so, based on the Canon settings. Something to think about...what are the advantages?
So many. I've saved lots of marginal photos this way but it can take more time that you might like to spend on one photo. I'll show a few examples in FB Messenger maybe later this evening. Almost every photo of mine that you've seen have been post-processed in Photoshop.
Well, I've deleted many, many marginal photos...yeah, so many photos and so little time. But I'm intrigued. The EOS 7D manual mentions Digital Photo Professional for processing RAW images, and I have a disk with it that came with my Rebel. Maybe a place to start before buying something like Photoshop?
Yes, you could try that. I never did because I already had PS and knew how to use it.
P.S. no Anna's in the pyracantha as I was weeding near it all day and no whir of wings.
My numbers are struggling still too. I did see a blackcap earlier in the week, which aren't unusual but are not common visitors, so I was pleased with that. This weekend is also our "Big Garden Birdwatch" citizen science programme - one hour to count all the birds that visit your "garden". Normally I contribute a very small number of sightings, an hour is just too short for my garden. I do try and maximise my chances though. Feel the feeders, bird baths, etc and keep my fingers crossed but often the number of species is countable on one hand. Maybe this year will be different.
Good luck with the count! eBird does something similar on occasion, asking people to list birds from their yards over a 24-hour period. I've contributed to it a few times. Are you familiar with eBird?
I logged 10 species (20 birds) in the hour, about what I’d expected. Yes I’m aware of ebird, we also have BirdTrack which does something very similar.
Not bad for an hour!