{"id":9772,"date":"2025-06-12T14:45:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T14:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9772"},"modified":"2025-06-12T14:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T14:45:06","slug":"garden-birds-feeding-taken-with-a-vintage-24mm-lens-from-below","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9772","title":{"rendered":"Garden birds feeding: Taken with a vintage 24mm lens from below"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is another go at my small project using unusual viewpoints: trying to photograph garden birds from below but this time I wanted to try a vintage 24mm lens (36mm equivalent). Below are some of the results taken in early May. I think some are quite amusing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Juvenile and adult starlings at the feeding station<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A rare, for us, blue tit looking at the now empty feeder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A new feeder has brought the blue tit in to hang upside down on the feeder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A starling hanging upside down while 2 other starlings chat away…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A sparrow, now a rare visitor to the garden, by the feeder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Below I show some views of the camera setup. This comprises of a cheap camera body with a vintage lens attached. This is housed in a modified food box. I have a budget motion detection trigger which I also house in plastic food boxes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Showing the camera setup and motion detection for the first photos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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This shows the camera sitting in the plastic box on a tripod<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Setting up for the rest of the photos. Here I am experimenting with a reflector to put more light on the subject.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I am enjoying these experiments. I feel that they do show a perspective that is unusual. But more trials are required such as increasing the depth of field…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is another go at my small project using unusual viewpoints: trying to photograph garden birds from below but this time I wanted to try a vintage 24mm lens (36mm equivalent). Below are some of the results taken in early May. I think some are quite amusing: Below I show some views of the camera … Continue reading “Garden birds feeding: Taken with a vintage 24mm lens from below”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,19,52,24,3,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-close-up","category-garden","category-nature","category-photography","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9772"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9797,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9772\/revisions\/9797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}