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Great Tit Visting my old Tap Prop

Great Tit Visting my old Tap Prop

I have for many years a Natural Feeding Station set up in woodland near my home, here I visit at least once per week to feed the birds and do some photography. ...
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I have for many years a Natural Feeding Station set up in woodland near my home, here I visit at least once per week to feed the birds and do some photography. This old Tap I found lying around give me a great idea to use as a prop for some inflight photography of the birds. Small Birds Such as this Great Tit Here do not hang around very long for you to get a good action photography so per focusing and high shutter speeds are needed to capture them
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camera

Canon EOS 7D

settings

settings

Aperture f/5.6 ISO 2500 Shutter 1/3200 Focal Length 313/1

location

location

Shropshire, GB

upload_date

upload_date

Apr, 2020

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449

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+80

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