Cormorants are so plentiful where I am. I’d be way more excited about that Canada Goose!
Nice shot though :)
I see cormorants all the time here too, I just loved how this one was screaming at something. On this walk, I saw only one cormorant but 60ish Canada geese (with a ton of goslings!), so the cormorant felt rare today. I also saw a blue heron but he flew too far away for me to get a good picture.
I wish my cellphone cam + bino shots looked this good.
Thanks, I’ve been practicing getting the focus sharp. It’s a tough battle between my phone’s autofocus vs manual bino adjustments and keeping the phone+bino stable. I still feel I have more work to do on that too.
Agreed, getting the manual bino focus in the right spot and then getting the phone’s autofocus to play nicely with it is a difficult task. In addition, my bino shots introduce a lot of chromatic aberration. I’m thinking of maybe 3D printing a bracket that can help keep my phone attached to the binos, so that I can get a steadier shot with both hands.
Here’s a recent photo I snapped of an oriental cuckoo using binos and a phone cam:
It was at quite a distance so this is 10x bino zoom + cropping.
That’s good for what I assume is one binocular eyepiece held over a mobile phone’s camera lens.
The whole thing has something of a khaki tinge - was it just one of those days, or something that a bit of software magic might improve?
Not OP, but all I do is digiscope and, yes, all OP needs to do is edit the pic on their phone, hit the button that “auto-adjusts” the colors, etc. And it usually looks way better. Here’s an example, I took through a scope, afterwards I used more advanced software magic:
I tried that out and posted the picture in another comment in this thread (https://lemmy.world/comment/10346090). I think it’s better but I have some more to learn. Your photo is brilliant!
Thanks, that’s exactly how I took the photo. It was approaching sunset so I think the colors are a little yellow because of that and just how brown the river is. I adjusted the colors like the other comment suggested and I think it looks better:
This shot makes me think this cormorant’s wife paid you to tail him