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jackb

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Thank you! I got a new camera specifically so I could manually adjust settings, and then half the time I don't know how to do it :lol:
You need a fast shutter speed like 1/2000 to freeze action like flying birds, then, consider your depth of field, the lower your F stop the less depth of field you will have. In other words, less of your subject will be in sharp focus with lower F stops. Once you have decided on these two adjustments set your ISO. Modern cameras can handle a much higher ISO setting without introducing too much noise. That said, in order to use the fast shutter speed you will have to set the ISO higher if you want to take the photo.
 

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Does this have any impact on zoom? Obviously the closer the better, but the birds I want to shoot will probably be over a river. I'm not certain how close I can get safely.
 

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The closer you get, the better the photo, when shooting wildlife your subject should almost fill the frame. Avoid a "busy" background and concentrate on your subject. A long lens will introduce some camera shake but the fast shutter speed will compensate somewhat. Some really large lenses, like 600 mm up, have image stabilization built in but they tend to be expensive.
 
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Our little garden project:
These are pictures of of some of the pretties that came with our recently bought 2acre cabin/retreat. It had some unbelievable treasures in its soil. The property had been vacant for 9-11 years when we bought it. Someone had obviously put a lot of effort into the landscaping at one time. But between the people who did the landscaping and our taking ownership someone used this 2acre property as a landfill. May things have not survived our cleaning up or transplanting of them. But the place now looks like it’s being cared for. Actually this is pretty much our “garden project”.

Here’s some of the “treasures” we found the spring we bought it.
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This is what the property looked like before we were able to get much cleaned up. It’s pretty disgusting what people did to this place over the years.
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We’ve owned it for three years now. There has been some nice progress made. Our property tax value has nearly tripled in the three years and we haven’t really done anything other than cut some dangerous trees down and clean up the trash. We have barely done anything in the old trailer house we are going to completely gut and remodel.4D492B56-675D-4247-9777-0AC51CD9087A.jpeg
 

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