Pics
All photos on this website are my own.
Clicked by my own fair forefinger, with my own camera, in my own time and with mine own eyesis.
All photos are taken on ‘auto’ because I don’t know how to use the camera manually.
I use LightRoom software to store my photos. I just use it as a base to organise and upload photos and find it very easy, I haven’t yet worked out how to make changes to pics yet. This is probably a good thing.
Sometimes I crop a photo on the camera to bring the image of the bird closer – but mostly the shots are original shots.
The computer I use is an iMac desktop with a 20″ screen.
For someone who uses a PC at work all day, you got a very nice set-up at home!
What is the camera you use?
Sorry, I forgot to put my name with the other comment, LOL!
Yoke. (the other Irish Birding blogger)
I just work on a 17″ laptop in the kitchen, at my birdtable window.
Nice blog, you got, btw.
Hi Yoke – yeah what’s this birdtable window? Are the birds so used to you that they come right up to your birdtable right outside your kitchen window?
I was wondering how you got the close up shots of the smoking chaffinch.
It’s just a small Nikon D40 with a 18-200 lens.
It is the window at my kitchen table. It starts at 1metre high.
On the other side, I have a raised planter which is used as the birdtable. The birdtable which used to be above it came down in 2007, so the birds were used to this place already.
Since then, I use the planter as a birdtable. It has a large Fennel in it, which is great as it has hollow stems. (think insects again)
The Fennel is the place to queue for hungry birds.
It is only 1.5m from the window, allowing me to have a very good view and get some nice close-ups too.
The disadvantage is that I hardly get any writing done these days, and spent more time looking at the camera than at the laptop.
The birds have little trouble with us at the window because it is so high up, I think.
no need for lenses. my Panasonic DMC FX18 has an 18x zoom which is perfect for the shots I take of the birds.
Well it’s very cool – you get some great pics from it.
I like your Geese shot and well done for getting the pheasants.
http://www.peregrinesbirdblog.blogspot.com
Thanks Craig, I looked at your blog today and your pics are supersonic in comparison. But anyway I’ll plod on with my little lens! Yeah the Pheasants was good timing.
Hi Siobhan! Many thanks for your comment, and I just wanted to say these images are amazing. The whole blog is super – great job! I’m not even into bird watching but you’ve made it all really interesting. What a deadly hobby..Hope to see you soon, bigup..k