Went out and shot a few birds today

[Jelster]

Not motorcycle related at all, but the wife & I went to the "London Wetlands Centre" today, so I had a chance to take a few pics with my DSLR....

http://upload3.postimage.org/116111/duck01a.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/116111/photo_hosting.html)

http://upload3.postimage.org/116116/duck02a.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/116116/photo_hosting.html)

http://upload3.postimage.org/116118/duck03a.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/116118/photo_hosting.html)

http://upload3.postimage.org/116120/duck04a.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/116120/photo_hosting.html)


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[Peter Henry]

http://img433.imageshack.us/img433/9363/kathyduckhunting28jp.jpg (http://imageshack.us) :P :P :P

[UlsterSV]

I got my hopes up there when I read the title! Thought you were a fellow shooter!

[Peter Henry]

Ulster...Careful mate,your post might ruffle a few feathers! :P

[Supervox]

Ulster - what do you shoot ?

Jelster - those are great pics :D

[Beenz]

Jelster, I should have realised your a photography bod. You took the shots of us on the way in to the pub on the run yesterday. Nice one! I'm just off to the darkroom to print some B&W I took on Friday. Don't think the birds are as good as yours though :)

[Peter Henry]

Super...Here is the man Ulster himself in action:





















http://img466.imageshack.us/img466/4028/bubshootgallerys6np.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

:P :P :P

[furrybean]

Please please please...

http://upload3.postimage.org/116365/JadeGoodyPIPEX.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/116365/photo_hosting.html)
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Would've been too good to be true!

[UlsterSV]

Shoot rabbits mostly. I'm yet to bag my first fox, but that's all in good time. Haven't been shooting long. Go clay pigeon shooting the odd time too, but I'm not very good at it :( I think it's cause they aren't living. Just isn't the same shooting something that aint living :twisted:

[_Stretchie_]

Please please please...

http://upload3.postimage.org/116365/JadeGoodyPIPEX.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/116365/photo_hosting.html)[/img][/url]


THAT'S Jade wotsit??? :twisted:

Bloody hell, what's happened to her?

[UlsterSV]

Also like to shoot targets and the odd bird with the air rifle. I'm a pretty good shot with it, if I may say so myself.

[Jelster]

Also like to shoot targets and the odd bird with the air rifle. I'm a pretty good shot with it, if I may say so myself.

To eat or for "sport" ?

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[UlsterSV]

Sport :wink: Not really interested in eating my kill, but I'm more than happy for someone else to. Better than just throwing it away.

[Jelster]

Sport :wink: Not really interested in eating my kill, but I'm more than happy for someone else to. Better than just throwing it away.

As long as it's not for the sake it... I can't get my head round that one......

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[kwak zzr]

Please please please...

http://upload3.postimage.org/116365/JadeGoodyPIPEX.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/116365/photo_hosting.html)[/img][/url]


THAT'S Jade wotsit??? :twisted:

Bloody hell, what's happened to her?

that mouth will never change.

[wheelnut]

Ive tried cooking them clay pigeons, it doesnt matter how long you boil them, they are still awful to eat :D

[Supervox]

Shoot rabbits mostly. I'm yet to bag my first fox, but that's all in good time. Haven't been shooting long. Go clay pigeon shooting the odd time too, but I'm not very good at it :( I think it's cause they aren't living. Just isn't the same shooting something that aint living :twisted:

Sorry mate - but I just can't understand the desire to kill something just because you can.

To kill for food is one thing, but for the sake of it . . . ? ? ? ? ?

[hall13uk]

i shoot, but only targets. i find targets good fun & have no desire for blood yet.

[Mr Toad]

Nice pics Steve - what camera did you get in the end ?

[Jelster]

Nice pics Steve - what camera did you get in the end ?

I got an EOS350D, it made sense as I still have my original EOS620 (which is really getting on now) so the lenses fit. Need to get something a bit better in the way of a lens for this birdwatching stuff though...

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[UlsterSV]

Ive tried cooking them clay pigeons, it doesnt matter how long you boil them, they are still awful to eat :D

That's why I eat 'em raw :wink:

[Gnan]

LOL!

they shoot people for no reason in wars, so the odd bird isn't going to change a lot...

[Supervox]

LOL!

they shoot people for no reason in wars, so the odd bird isn't going to change a lot...

The difference being in a war your target can shoot back !!

Now if game birds, rabbits, etc were issued with similar weapons to those that are hunting them I would pay good money to WATCH the hunt !!

[UlsterSV]

Mate I'd pay good money to participate!!

[21QUEST]

Mate I'd pay good money to participate!!

lol

Cheers
Ben

[rob13]

I saw a couple of bus spotters stood on a roundabout with their cameras outside Sunderland Bus Station the other day. Now that really is a sad hobby :roll:

[Saint Matt]

Personally, I'd love a crack at some wildlife, to annoy the vegetarians :P Only joking of course, but I do think I'd enjoy shooting vermin. Nowt bigger than a rabbit or pheasant or something.

[Jelster]

Personally, I'd love a crack at some wildlife, to annoy the vegetarians :P Only joking of course, but I do think I'd enjoy shooting vermin. Nowt bigger than a rabbit or pheasant or something.

Since when has pheasant been vermin :?

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[Saint Matt]

Gotta be some reason.... erm, like to peck at people? Dunno really, guess I could argue that it only serves as a size referance?

[carelesschucca]

Since when has pheasant been vermin :?

Ever since the the B wakes me up every morning I call him vermin... Damn bl*ddy bird... Once he calm's down and gets his end away I'll get some sleep but only untill the young owls leave the nest and I'll not get any sleep through out the night... they just don't STFU!!!

Squirrels too!!! The little tree rats should all be shot (bar the Red squirrels) those grays are illegal immigrants shouldn't be in this country...

having said all that I couldn't bring my self to shoot any of the birds but may be the squirrels...

[amarko5]

Not motorcycle related at all, but the wife & I went to the "London Wetlands Centre" today, so I had a chance to take a few pics with my DSLR....



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Looking cool Steve :wink:

if your looking for good glass, do not think you have to go for L series. look at the sigma ex stuff (especially the 70 to 200mm f2.8 hsm ) also tokina and some of the tamron range.

excellent quality and 1/3 of the price of canon stuff.

you would have to break my arms to get me to part with my sigma 70 to 200 zoom. (thanks alansv :thumbsup:) .

and before any l series snobs turn up YES i have used l series glass.

[RingDing]

I'm eagerly awaiting collection of my 350D. I also like shooting snaps of birds :shock: and plumped for a 70-300 IS USM. Although it's not as fast as the Sigma 100-300 I was ocnsidering it's considerably cheaper and the IS should allow slower shutter speeds, compensating for the slower glass.

I'll let you know what I think when it turns up.

I debated long and hard about what to get and luckily could borrow a 350D and a D70 for the weekend to compare them. I thought the 350D was more user friendly and the image quality was better. The D70 had softer images. Both were with their kit lenses.

Should have it by the end of the week, it's like waiting for Xmas! :lol:

P.

[amarko5]

I'm eagerly awaiting collection of my 350D. I also like shooting snaps of birds :shock: and plumped for a 70-300 IS USM. Although it's not as fast as the Sigma 100-300 I was ocnsidering it's considerably cheaper and the IS should allow slower shutter speeds, compensating for the slower glass.

I'll let you know what I think when it turns up.

I debated long and hard about what to get and luckily could borrow a 350D and a D70 for the weekend to compare them. I thought the 350D was more user friendly and the image quality was better. The D70 had softer images. Both were with their kit lenses.

Should have it by the end of the week, it's like waiting for Xmas! :lol:

P.

don't get me wrong there are some cracking canon lenses cheap :wink: a friend has the efs 17 to 85 is and it is really good :wink:

[Jelster]

I used an old Cannon 70-210 that I got with my original EOS620 which I'm begining to think that was about 20 years ago now, and I still have it and it works fine. It also came with the 50mm F1.4 as well :lol:

Am now considering something around 400mm now, get some pictures at distance....

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[amarko5]

here's my sigma 70 -200 ex hsm f2.8 with a 2x converter on it taking me to 400mm x 1.6 for the crop factor so a 640mm

you need a lot of light for decent shots but here are 1 or 2 from a dull day today around ribblehead and devils bridge

on above lens

http://upload3.postimage.org/129630/bah.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/129630/photo_hosting.html)

same lens again

http://upload3.postimage.org/129641/quack1.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/129641/photo_hosting.html)

and again

http://upload3.postimage.org/129644/birddip.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/129644/photo_hosting.html)

1 more then the next lens

http://upload3.postimage.org/129645/quack.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/129645/photo_hosting.html)

I could not get close enough to use the 200mm end of the lens (my kids were with me scaring everything in sight )
:lol:

[Peter Henry]

Far more interesting birds to snap away at in my neck of the woods I can tell you! 8) :P

[amarko5]

ok now the 24 to 70 sigma ex f2.8 lens

http://upload3.postimage.org/129656/ribblehead.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/129656/photo_hosting.html)


and 1 from my newest toy the tokina at-x pro dx 12 to 24mm f 4
just got this lens this morning so still playing with it :wink: but this is a pic just below devils bridge at the 12mm end of the lens.

http://upload3.postimage.org/129669/devilswater.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/129669/photo_hosting.html)


enough now :? or PH will start getting all high and mighty about non bike pics in idle banter :P :lol:

[Peter Henry]

You green wax jacket boys carry on,ignore me. :?

[amarko5]

Far more interesting birds to snap away at in my neck of the woods I can tell you! 8) :P

nah Valleyboy will think th first snap is a tidy bird :P :P :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Peter Henry]

Valleyboy....Will be sat there thinking...."You know the young un does have my eyes?" :P :P

[amarko5]

You green wax jacket boys carry on,ignore me. :?


Oi :!: can you guess what i was doing around the ribblehead and devils bridge area :wink:





yeah a bit of route timing and planning for the forthcoming south / north tour

ok so i took a few pics as well :P :lol:

[Peter Henry]

Good man Marko! I hope you have marked the relevant gates that I can use in George Formby-esque manner in order to take short cuts on my C90?

With me little stick of Blackpool rock. :P

[amarko5]

Good man Marko! I hope you have marked the relevant gates that I can use in George Formby-esque manner in order to take short cuts on my C90?

With me little stick of Blackpool rock. :P

all marked with a fluorescent shadow pic of the C90 and instructions on directions across the dales :lol:

[Peter Henry]

Top man you are! :wink:

[Rob S (Yella)]

I just had delivered a Nikon D50 with the Nikon 18-70 lens and a Sigma APO 70-300 zooooooom.

Need got get out snapping now.

I was thinking of getting the EOS350 or the D70 but I think the D50 is more user friendly but uses the same optics and sensor as the D70. I am trying to convince my GF that 900 quid all in with a bag, filters and 1 gig card is a good deal and the washing machine will last a few more months anyway.

The Sv650.org camera club.

[amarko5]

The Sv650.org camera club.

now then, there is an idea :idea:

mr moderator can we have a new section on the forum :wink: Please :lol: :lol:

[Ward8124]

Please please please...

http://upload3.postimage.org/116365/JadeGoodyPIPEX.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/116365/photo_hosting.html)[/img][/url]


THAT'S Jade wotsit??? :twisted:

Bloody hell, what's happened to her?

that mouth will never change.

Or the brain