Motor On wrote in post #14915616
After clicking through a bunch of
this thread looking for sports and aviation photos
I decided to give Birds a shot this weekend, here's what I came up with.
1-_MG_4698 by
motor_on, on Flickr
All were shot with a 70-200 f4L, sometimes with a Quantaray 2x Tele converter, sometimes without, which means a fairly significant amount of manual focus shooting at what I figure is at best f/8.
Link to the set is here:
http://flic.kr/s/aHsjBJbS8oNo idea on the species of the birds, not sure how much of the bird route I want to pursue photographically, I know my midday timing was supposed to be about as bad as it gets, but CC is certainly welcome as I will probably play with it a little more, at least as long as the weather is nice enough to sit outside on the porch or I catch something out of the corner of my eye while hiking and shooting landscapes.
It appears that the flock of birds in your first shot is for sure sparrows, exactly what kind, I don't know. (I went and looked online)
The bird in #4 is maybe a Gadwall, Mallard hen, or a Mottled duck, I can't tell.
You mention that you aren't sure yet about birds for photography yet, that is something that either grabs you, or doesn't, I think. Either you like it, or you don't, at least, usually.
Maybe it all depends on what you already have going in photography, and if you have plenty going on, maybe birds is not something for you, yet, maybe it'll come later, or, never. All I know is, I read about how it grabs a person and you can't stop taking bird shots, and it happened that way with me too.
The thing about birds is that it's not 'just' about shooting them, but you can also have a species that is hard to find/shoot, or find your nemesis, do portraits, (birds) or flying, (BiF) or search out eagles, etc. There's always something that can be exciting about it, but, I also realize that it's not for everyone, I know after all of this time, my wife is not one to jump up and down about any of that, or cameras. heheh
Personally, I don't shoot sports, cars, people portraits, street, or any of that, I would, but it is not something that is for me, yet, I have my hands full most of the time with birds in some way or another. (I do love landscapes and insect macro though!)
So hopefully you'll know what you feel soon, because looking at your shots I can definitely see more than just 'promise', even though the shots are kind of small, they appear to have a lot going for them.
To me, you did really well in these, ALL of them. 
Randy
