Project 52 - Weekly Photos from Geoff F - Part 2

[Geoff F]

Once again, I will be attempting to post at least one photo per week throughout 2025. Part 1 is here

Project 52 - Weekly Photos from Geoff F

Week 14 - I washed my feathers and now I can't do anything with them.



7D with Sigma 150-600 Sport lens. 1/1250 F10 Iso 320

And a bit of intensive wing maintenance



This is the hide from which I was photographing birds

[Cantab]

A successful shoot. The first one is wonderful!

[billtils]

Super shots! Who says "bird on a stick" photos are boring!

[Cantab]

Geoff, I've realized I don't know the name of the bird. Although probably common in the UK, there's nothing like it here on the west coast of Canada. Is it in the chickadee family?

[Geoff F]

It is the very common Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) Bruce.

They frequent garden nest boxes including my garden and I look after 50 boxes in a woodland reserve.

[Geoff F]

Week 15 - History Society AGM. One of those 'what else could I have done' situations. I didn't want to be 'lumbered' all night with a large camera and external flash so I shot with my pocket sized Fuji X20. Last year this worked OK but they have changed the room lighting. The new tubes may be more environmentally friendly but they produce a terrible yellowish light and there are down looking spotlights above where the speakers stand which produce a poor light with serious shadow problems. Image noise was a consistent problem although I have used a bit of AI noise removal in ACR.

Anyway, I did what I could. Starting with an overall view of the room.



Fuji X20 1/30 F4.5 Iso 320. I have edited the colour balance but I'm still not happy with this result.

The President and Chairman



Flash used

Chairman's Address



Flash used and I tried to edit out some of the shadow issues.

Speaker for the night. I tried to also include the screen to show the purpose of her talk but she mostly stood at an impossible angle so this was my best attempt. Other shots suffered from motion blur due to a slow shutter speed.



Flash used

[Geoff F]

Another view of the speaker. She tended to get excited about her subject and kept moving around which produced motion blur. So eventually, I switched to my wildlife shooting methods which meant manual settings plus flash.



1/160 F 3.6 Iso 640 plus flash. But the shadow problem is still there.