Wildlife Photography across the Water: Garden Update

Sunday 28 February 2010

Garden Update - Female Sparrowhawk

As promised earlier today, here is just one of the female Sparrowhawk pictures that I got in my garden last week.

This was taken with the 7D and if you read this post I did last week, in particular the second link, I can tell you how relevant this thinking is for this image.

I took some images with the 1Dmk111, 500 + the 1.4 extender, but to get an equivalent crop to this size, I was down to something like 4.1MP. Now that is fine for the blog, as I only tend to post at something like 800 x 600 max. (click image for full size viewing). However, with the 7D file sizes, the equivalent crop was 11.6 MP or thereabouts. So as you can see still more MP's left than I started with on the 1Dmk111. So very printable in terms of file size.

I will do a follow up post with some more detail and images around this cropping subject later in the week, with full and cropped examples from both bodies, along with some more behavioural shots of this bird.

Sadly, the plum tree that it was sat in is far from photogenic with the 'clutter' behind the bird. I got the ladders and the cutters out today, so if she should make a return, then I can now get a much cleaner shot.

Martin

3 comments:

Bobbster28 February 2010 at 19:49
Nice sharp image
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Julian28 February 2010 at 23:21
Martin

Agree with Bobbster, plus you can almost feel the intensity of the hawk's focus.

BTW - I did some very rough maths and are you effectively saying that with approaching an effective half-crop (i.e doubling of focal length) you still had enough pixels to print A3 at c. 250dpi. If I am right, that 7D is one seriously capable wildlife camera.

Look forward to learning more.

Kind regards
Julian
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WPATW1 March 2010 at 20:53
Julian

Simply put - yep :-)

I will do some more on this specifically a little later in the week

Martin
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David Courtenay, a self taught wildlife and nature photographer, has been capturing images for over 30 years. He has had a passion for wildlife since early childhood and remembers being glued to the television whenever Survival, Wildlife on One and other natural history documentaries were shown. In the 2006 he swapped his established career for the life of a wildlife photographer, such a move demands a measure of uncompromising passion and commitment.

David has travelled extensively throughout Europe as well as spending more than 7 months in India working with local guides and trackers in search of Bengal Tiger, Asian One horned Rhino and Asian Elephant. He has also photographed Wildlife in Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, Sumatra, Africa, Canada and America. Working closely with Conservation companies he tries to raise funds to help Wildlife that has been put on the endangered list by poaching and habitation loss

Martin Dyer has had a passion for avian wildlife since childhood, particularly raptors. Photography was also another keen interest and it was with the specific availability and control of the whole process that digital offers that Martin was then able to combine the two in 2003. Based in the UK, Martin is a regular visitor to Scotland, specifically the Isle of Mull to watch the Eagles resident there. Other trips to Europe and around the UK are usually part of Martin’s agenda in a typical year.

However, as a firm believer on making the most of the local patch, Martin has spent a lot of time and hard work creating a wildlife garden which is reaping the rewards with many new species and varieties of wildlife. A keen member of a number of wildlife photographic groups, Martin is keen to expand his portfolio into other areas of wildlife, and has already established a wide portfolio of images of fungi.