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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mike D90" data-source="post: 221883" data-attributes="member: 17556">I had some decent sunlight this afternoon and the little birds were feeding like crazy. I decided to give this another shot.Today, I got much much closer.  How I was able to stand, in the open, just 4 feet from the feeder is a mystery to me; but I did.  The birds, particularly one little fellow, just seems to not be that frightened, and is why I got more shots of him than of the smaller Chickadee.  Getting closer I was also able to change my shot angle to get a better lighting on the subject.Today's results were much improved over what I have before.  Still not absolutely tack sharp, as I would like, but I am chocking this up to either an unsharp lens at that focal length or handheld shooting issues.I was able to keep teh shutter speed at 1/500th and no slower than 1/320th on S-priority.  ISO varied between 200 and 800 depending on light and zoom length.  Aperture was at f5.6 at 200mm to f4.5 at shorter zoom length.I was able to get some shots with focus point on the eye. I was also able to crop close and not lose that much resolution and clarity. Smart Blur and Unsharp Mask removed a lot of the ISO grain noise.[ATTACH=full]60035[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]60036[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]60037[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]60038[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]60039[/ATTACH]</blockquote>