Fabulous Friday at Kirstenbosch Garden
Bird Life Photography at Kirstenbosch A morning of Small Birds and Flowers at Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden Swee Waxbill Kirstenbosch Garden Cape Town Friday Morning at Kirstenbosch: Small perched birds and a Garden full of Peace I expected a lot from this morning. I did not get it in the form of many small birds, but a peaceful walkabout around Kirstenbosch on a fabulous Friday morning. Again, after quite a few rainy days in Cape Town, I returned to Kirstenbosch with my Canon EOS 7D Mark II camera / EF 400mm f/5.6L USM lens to fine-tune this new genre of small perched birds. What I am learning is the shutter speed relationship between the small perched birds and when some of them take flight during one continuous burst. Working with a non-IS lens, I shoot with a shutter speed of 1/1250s at Kirstenbosch which is fast enough for this purpose, but not fast enough for their incredible fast in-flight action. For this I will have to increase the shutter speed to a minimum of 1/250...