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You've been busy, Brent! And every one a winner. The hawk and the doves are my favourites.

Thank you! My wife has created an environment behind our home that attracts many kinds of birds. I'm able to photograph a lot of them with my VL 114 through the back windows without too much effort.

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Sandhill Crane (unfortunately not in our garden).

 

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An osprey and two chicks by a lake created by one of the dams of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

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A few I've taken since we moved to Idaho............all with the SL and the exceptional 90-280 V.E.

 

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A mother bald eagle teaching her fledgling son how to fish - near the 'River of No Return'.

 

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Looking out of the window of my upstairs study.

 

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............while walking along the 'Green Belt' along the Boise River.

 

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A curious myna . . . 

 

M240 with 280mm f/2.8 APO-Telyt-R + APO-Extender-R 1.4X . . .

 

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Colorful bird of a different kind :)

(my apologies to all the talented real bird photographers. Due to a lack of birding photography skill and super telephoto lenses. This is all I can come up with.)

 

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We'll, I persevered with the Leica Q application and with the help of the Q forum was successful using it to photograph Hummingbirds. It is challenging on many fronts, but also A LOT of fun. The app has a 1.5 second delay from the time you push the shutter button until the shutter on the camera actually fires. I believe this is mainly because it's trying to focus even though I have the camera in manual focus. It still goes through a sequence where it appear to be seeking focus. That lag makes it more challenging for a fast moving bird such as these, but I took over 200 shots and got a few timed right. Regardless, this is very fun and the app did work well overall with no significant drop outs. I did go to airplane mode on the iPhone to eliminate any potential interruptions such as email, text, phone calls. I set it up using the Leica wifi network instead of my home network. Again, thanks to some solid help from other Q forum members who have made the app work successfully. Here are a few photos. I only used two flashes this time. One ring flash on the camera and one to illuminate the background. I could remove or reduce the flash highlights in the eye, but I decided to leave it. Were I printing these, I'd reduce it.

 

I posted this in the Q forum and it was suggested I also post it here. 

 

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Here's what the setup looked like. I use a Canon MR-14 EX II ring flash that I adapted to the Q. It's used only in manual mode. The  I also trigger one other slave to highlight the background. 

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blackbird in my jasmine shrub


 


 


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Yellow-Vented Bulbul . . . 

 

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Striated Heron . . .

 

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Here's what the setup looked like. I use a Canon MR-14 EX II ring flash that I adapted to the Q. It's used only in manual mode. The  I also trigger one other slave to highlight the background.

The Hummingbirds are fantastic, professional. Thanks for the tips on the Q app, was unaware of the time delay. The photo of this set up should save a lot of experimenting for the rest of us.
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Baby Blackbird


 


 


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