Feeding Time: NZ tauhou or silvereyes

October 02, 2013  •  2 Comments
The tauhou or silvereye (or waxeye, depending on what common name you were acquainted with) is a recent immigrant to NZ.  They established themselves from a population from Australia in the 1850s.  With their natural colonisation (cross-Tasman winds) they're considered a native bird.  Many of our native birds do in fact, have an Australian origin.  
 
What is better than one tauhou, is three :)  Afterall, they usually move around in flocks.  The shot has been taken in my garden using my a700 and 300/4 G lens.
Keywords: Ecology, Environment, Panorama, and, bird, photo, silvereye, tauhou

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Hi Paul

For landscapes I like to use ISO100-200. For wildlife or action ISO400-800. The Nex does have got a good sensor by the way and does better on high ISO shots than older generation sensors.

If a high ISO meets your aspirations go for it :) Ultimately the only person you aim to please with photography is yourself (unless you're a professional, in which case you get paid to take pics of stuff to please others). If the pics are making you happy, then you've met your goals.
paul scott(non-registered)
Off subject but general photography
We look forward to your photographs in Kiwiblog on Friday.
I was looking at your photo of the parrot type bird.

I use a little Sony Nex APS-C and I religiously used 200 ASA in attempt to get best resolution and colour.
Then I did some tests. I took photos of patterns with colours between ISO 200 and 12800. At different light levels.
Enlarged highly we could not see the benefit of the lower ISO shots.
Maybe the colour was a little down, but resolution the same.
I stopped leaning camera against posts and stepped up the ISO getting faster speeds and longer focus.
You mention your lenses here , but I wondered what ISO you like to use.
paulscott
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