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I think I got a pretty decent bino shot of a double-crested cormorant. Today in northeast Ohio.
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Cormorants are so plentiful where I am. I’d be way more excited about that Canada Goose!
Nice shot though :)
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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, there are some neat advances in technology to help with enhancing cellphone photos, yes, some of them involve AI to help upscale the resolution and refine the details. If you're on Instagram you can check out my content on 'theCronicBirder'
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