Distance photography.

[John]

It's a shame the weather was so miserable as I wanted to show those that don't know anything about digiscoping just how close you can get to a subject using your camera attached to your scope. I tried for a Great Grey Shrike, knowing that for the most part it would be relatively distant from me.

I thought it was going to be sunny this afternoon and when I left Coventry just after 13:00 it was fairly bright. I had to call into a couple of places first but by the time I had arrived just outside of Walton on Trent the sky had turned very dark so a quality shot was out of the question.

This is the power of digiscoping. You can get to photograph birds at extreme distances. I have taken a few movies of the bird also. You can clearly see the bird but they are not that good unfortunately.

I battled against all the wrong elements to get these shots. Extreme distance (over 400 yards), bad light and trying to photograph a bird with the sky as the background.

I took one record shot of the bird then took a photo from just my camera to where the bird actually was. I have arrowed the tree it was perched in.

Still these two shots will give you a clear indication on what can be acheived. I have to say that I also wasn't on full zoom at the time. The third shot is of the same bird taken on 28/01/2006 at an even greater distance.

John