Yellow Crowned Kinglet  by jgpittenger

Yellow Crowned Kinglet

A friend invited me over to photograph kinglets at her house this morning. What an experience. The light was bad and so the ISO was sky high. But the hardest part...and the part I learned the most from...was shooting tiny fast moving flittery birds in masses of leaves and background trees. Auto focus didn't work and when I started with manually focusing I had my camera set to magnify when I moved the focus ring. By the time it did that, the bird was no longer in the magnified area. It took me a long time to realize that if I turned off the magnifying it was easier to manually focus on such a moving small target. Out of 357 shots I got about 5 in focus! Ah well. It was fun.
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Another lovely shot! I love the autumn leaves around the little bird.
November 29th, 2020  
Good for you for trying! Looks a bit like our 'grey warbler' - very small with that eyebrow!
November 29th, 2020  
Those tiny birds are fast little cuties. Great capture.
November 29th, 2020  
What a beautiful shot! I love how the bird's colors contrast with the golden leaves.
November 29th, 2020  
Wow, but you got a sharp colorful one here. So fun to have a learning experience. Thanks for sharing.
November 29th, 2020  
Great capture
November 29th, 2020  
Beautiful little bird and great against the fall foliage
November 29th, 2020  
Moving flitty birds are so hard -- I have yet to photograph a junco in my backyard for that reason. But I'll keep trying as you did to get your kinglet.
November 29th, 2020  
That's a good explanation and one I could follow on the how-to. Thanks for including your how I did this! He's such a pretty little bird and he shows up real well with those leaves.
November 29th, 2020  
Great shot. Those little ones are hard to get sometimes. Is that setting just something on your lens/camera or do other cameras have that same feature. Haven't seen that one before.
November 29th, 2020  
Super sweet
November 29th, 2020  
You did so well, they must have been so difficult to photograph.
November 29th, 2020  
@rickster549 i don’t know if it is just a Sony thing or not
November 29th, 2020  
Fabulous! I really enjoy the extra focus tool with Sony when I am going manual.
November 29th, 2020  
A beautiful shot of this lovely bird, great composition with all those leaves around.
November 29th, 2020  
So pretty! Love the tones and focus.
November 29th, 2020  
how lovely
November 29th, 2020  
Ohh - I'm so glad you persevered with this - it's such a beautiful image of him - I love the lighting, the DOF and the composition. And he himself is so wonderful. :)
November 29th, 2020  
Fab
November 29th, 2020  
Beautiful focus and dof- fav
November 29th, 2020  
Lovely shot in a challenging situation.
November 29th, 2020  
What a beautiful bird!
November 29th, 2020  
You met the challenge quite well. Nice shot.
November 29th, 2020  
Well done. I admire your patience and perseverance. This is a lovely image.
November 29th, 2020  
Beautiful. Fav
November 29th, 2020  
@joysabin I do too...most of the time but it zoomed in so far that these little guys had long gone out of that teeny spot in the frame. I found the focus peaking color without the magnifying worked better this time
November 29th, 2020  
Nice capture, especially of the stripe on his head! I have tried many times and the stripe is not usually visible in mine.
November 29th, 2020  
You got the shot though! Great job!
November 29th, 2020  
Great tones and focus. 5 sharp shots - great result.
November 29th, 2020  
Well you nailed it with this shot - couldn't be any sharper.
December 1st, 2020  
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