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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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.
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.
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.
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. :)
@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