I spotted this little guy doing what he does best this morning and decided to take a shot at him.
Ok, it was with my camera, not a gun.
The image was taken with a Fuji S5 Pro camera set at ISO 100 with a Nikon 70-200mm f2.8 VR lens mounted on it. The lens was set at 200mm at f 2.8.If you look at the tree, you can see that he's made some damage already. Wonder if he gets a headache from all that pecking!
Be sure to click on the image to see a larger version.
Did you find this lovely red head in your backyard?
ReplyDeleteActually, I saw this woodpecker in my neighbor's tree the day before and told myself that if I saw it again, I'd take a photo of it. It was his backyard.
ReplyDeleteSure enough, the bird came back the next morning and so I grabbed my Fuji S5 camera and put the Nikon 70-200mm lens on it.
It would have been better had I taken this at f 5.6 or f 8.0 to get the entire tree in focus. At f 2.8, the only thing in focus is the bird itself. With an aperture of f 2.8 and a focal length of 200mm, the depth of field is a little too shallow to get sharp focus on foreground objects like the tree. Still, not a bad shot of the bird itself.
I have never seen a woodpecker that up close, let alone the holes in the tree!
ReplyDeleteI learned this weekend about having the aperature set at 2.8 and only focusing on one object in the photo - which works for a lot of what I shoot, but not of my nephews coloring easter eggs!! The depth of field was definitely too shallow. Luckily, thanks to my buddy Russell Lowe's teach skills, I was able to realize that the aperature was too low and adjust accordingly :D
Thanks Gina!
ReplyDeleteToo bad the teacher didn't learn the lesson on this shot though! LOL