Thread: A diary of visitors to my back yard

More great shots Lou, i studied Entomology at UNI but cant tell you what those little black ones are, been a few years since I studied bugs. I'd look them up but Stacey went crazy with a clean up and all my text books ended up in storage.

Going by the image the little bugs are citricola scale (Coccus pseudomagnoliarum) there is 50 years since I left agricultural college it will be better for you to take a leaf to the local garden center

Nice photos by the way.

Ok so finally I have managed to get a half decent photo of the what I think is the "Little Wattle Bird" which I took underexposed pics of further back (yes I know these are still a little soft but I was on maximum zoom in poor light). Its a hard bird to get a photo of because as soon as you lift your camera its off...I got these photo's because I was hiding behind the lemon tree and poking the camera through the branches....lol

First pic looks pretty good.

Lou, push the ISO up to 320 or 400 (1.5 or 2 stops) and that will give you a faster shutter speed which would make both shots able to be at 1/200 or higher. The D80 is still pretty noiseless at ISO400 and also if you de-noise and sharpen the images in LR I think you will find a big difference.

I would set the camera to AutoISO, minimum of 100, maximum of 600 and change on a shutter speed of 1/200.

The first pic has been sharpened but only a smidge I have never had much success with the noise adjustment

I thought I actually did have it on 320 ISO as I usually bump it up a bit when its over cast...and especially when i have the wide angle on as its not as fast as the 200.

these are cropped in pretty tight too cropped at 1:1 which I think is really highlighting the noise and the softness. Still I got a picture of the little illusive git that was the main thing

I looked at the EXIF and it has them at ISO100. The cropping does explain the noise and softness, especially with the D80. One of those things that a newer camera would be better at, newer sensor and image processor. The D200 has the same issue.

so what your saying is buy a new camera with a new 300mm lens...







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I wish

Not at all. Nothing wrong with the D80, I still use the D200 as well as the D3s.