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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This feels SO Japanese that when it scrolled into view I wondered who was posting from Japan! Of course, the Japanese maple, but also there's a bird known as "mejiro" or White-eyes.
He is so clear, Jane. And a lovely setting - Would love to check if some of the little birds I'm seeing aren't all finches - will have to try some closer shots - did spot the junco today - I think.
