Small Black in flock

Seems to be rosy starling.

The flock

Spotting List.

21 Little Green Bea-Eater
20 Brahminy Kite
19 Oriental Magpie Robin
18 Purple sunbird
17 Black Drongo
16 Spotted Dove
15 Scaly Breasted Munia
14 Grey Heron
13 Tailor bird
12 Black headed ibis
11 Brown-headed Gull
10 Little Cormorant
9 Common Sandpiper
8 Yellow Bittern
7 White throated Kingfisher.
6 Red vented Bulbul
5 Barn Swallow
4 Bank Myna
3 Black Kite
2 Greater Sand Plover
1 Parrot

Common Myna
Pegion
Crow
Sparrow
Hen

Birds assorted . .

These are assorted bird images which I need to identify.

Sunset . . .

Sunset . .

Merry Xmas . . !

Since I am back I can only post pics of Goa preparing for X-mas.

 

Bird watching at goa

Last few bird pics from Goa. . .

Purple Sunbird-Female

Purple Sunbird-Male

Birds from Goa second lot. . .

Second lot of from the Goa
These were using the kit lens

Goa Bird watching first lot . .

Due to habitual early rising went for bird watching and guess what it was a feast . . . These are from the first day. Do comment if you can identify them.

Little Green Bea-Eater

Cost of DEVELOPMENT

Electrocuted wild . . .
Some sad clicks from Goa Trip

Postcard from Goa

These are some quick sorted clicks from my Goa Trip.

 

First from street

These are first street photographs.

First Dragonfly

Tamron 70-300 is not the 1:1 macro lens but still it allows you to focus at closure distances when switched to Macro. This is my first Dragon fly with this lens.

Scaly Breasted Munia

This bird found in group from my window.

Grey Egret like (Grey Heron)

This is Grey Egret like bird. I am waiting for identification.

Grey Heron Ardea cinerea cinerea

Tailer bird in the backyard.

This is heavily croped photo I will try to get a better pic of this.

Tailor bird chirping is noticeable loud. I will also upload the video of chirping taken by my point and shoot canon sx130is. Till I get better pic this stays as my spotting note.

Black headed ibis

This was a distant lonely flight caught in evening. I was clear this is no Gull. After searching for identification it very much is Black headed ibis.

So that makes one bird to be shot with better clarity.

Bird I could not identify (Oriental Magpie-robin)

Once started taking pictures of birds. I found that there are many beautiful birds which are around in my city and I am unaware of them. This is one of them. I plan to create a List of birds I spot.

This was cropped from the following shot. Which justifies my reason for buying 300mm and 20mpx over 18mpx and 250mm.

Hope some visitor would identify the bird.  I an hour I could get that this is  Oriental Magpie-robin (Copsychus saularis)

First RAW editing success

After updating RawTherapee to 4.0.11.127 it has started processing the A58 's raw files. Here are 3 files

Straight out of camera JPG cropped. (SOOC jpg)

Edited SOOC jpg using XnView

Raw file edited with RawTherapee.

You can see the details in the flowers in the last picture.

Yes It's a Sony and for these reasons. . !

I find people wondering why not Canon or Nikon and I say: "Yes, its a Sony ! And that is what I wanted"

My use case is mostly bird photography out door usually in good light and stay low budget going forward with additional lenses. So I shortlisted Tamron 70-300 DiLD Macro (A17) and Tamron 200-500 (A08) before buying A58.

I wanted 

1. In body image stabilization (should work on cheap lens hand holding is 80% with birds, it works on prime lenses too)
2. Extra mpx for cropping. (more than 16 or 18 from competition)
3. Faster viewfinder focusing.

Build quality compromise was known.

I got what I paid for hence I am happy.

Some bonus

After using there are some bonus points I could identify and use

1. Focus magnification when using viewfinder.
2. Focus peaking in viewfinder.
3. No need for mirror lockup function.
4. AF tracking which is not very usual in entry level camera.
5. Tethering remote control from PC.

As compared to

Two camera competed in my budget Nikon D3200 and Canon 600D

Canon 600D offer of twin kit 55-250 lens was the real juicy but then I am at
18mpx and 250mm and with A58 I am 20mpx and 300mm.

Nikon D3200 only scored on 24mpx. Adding VR lens would put it out of my  budget. There is again AF motor related issue.

Am I happy ? Check my birds pics in first 15 days.

Bird watching second weekend . . .

After getting some hang of the new lens. This are some of the pics from second Weekend. These were enhanced by XnView

Brown-headed Gull Larus brunnicephalus

Little Cormorant

Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)

Indian Pond Heron