{"id":2965,"date":"2022-12-19T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/?p=2965"},"modified":"2023-10-05T12:48:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T11:48:23","slug":"birnie-loch-19-dec-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/12\/19\/birnie-loch-19-dec-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Birnie\u00a0Loch (19 Dec 2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I treated myself to a second hand lens, a Sigma DG 50-500mm 1:4.5-6.3 APO HSM. That’s a bit of a mouthful, and it’s a heavy beast as well that needs firm support to avoid camera shake. Birnie Loch struck me as the obvious place to try it out! I was pretty impressed with the reach, and the quality of the images. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As well as the obvious Mute Swans and Mallards, there are a number of other species present including Widgeon, Pochard and Goosander.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Shutter speed:\u00a01\/500s<\/li>
  • Aperture:\u00a0ƒ\/6.3<\/li>
  • ISO:\u00a01600<\/li>
  • Focal length:\u00a0500mm<\/li>
  • Taken:\u00a019 December, 2022 12:12<\/li>
  • Camera:\u00a0PENTAX K-3 Mark III<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I treated myself to a second hand lens, a Sigma DG 50-500mm 1:4.5-6.3 APO HSM. That’s a bit of a mouthful, and it’s a heavy beast as well that needs firm support to avoid camera shake. Birnie Loch struck me as the obvious place to try it out! I was pretty impressed with the reach,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,43,44,328,23,339],"tags":[71,47,218,134],"class_list":["post-2965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animals","category-colour","category-digital-type","category-pentax-k-3-iii","category-scotland","category-sigma-50-500mm-4-5-6-3-apo","tag-birnie-and-gaddon-lochs","tag-fife","tag-mallard-duck","tag-mute-swan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2970,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions\/2970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}