>>3474516Thank you!
>>3474548Thanks! I mostly just use the bird-watching mode on the camera and depending on the situation I use exposure compensation. I almost always shoot bursts and pick the best of the bunch...this is especially helpful since at long zooms the pressing of the button moves the camera slightly. The buffer can take like 5 seconds to clear so I try to be certain that the autofocus is right instead of firing off excitedly (though I guess this applies to any camera). Autofocus sometimes doesn't seem to want to grab on especially at 2000mm, so in those cases I zoom out a bit, focus, and sometimes can zoom in again and focus properly at that point.
I find in lightroom I am typically lifting the shadows a fair bit. In general I've been erring on the side of slightly underexposing vs overexposing though since it doesn't shoot in RAW and if it's overexposed at all those areas are simply gone.
So far I haven't had good luck with shooting birds in flight--even with a fast shutter speed the images are really low quality I find. Overall the image quality I think is okay when resized small for web but doesn't hold up that well at 100% crop.
In terms of finding birds I have some experience as an amateur birder already and know the calls of things so that helps immensely, and my experience with binoculars lets me just lift the camera up even when very zoomed in and have the bird in the frame. For the warblers they would be nearly impossible to photograph without being able to do this imo since they don't sit still more than a couple seconds usually. My girlfriend for example has a bit more trouble with getting birds in the frame.
