Humber River Trail July 31

[Ally]

You know you could miss big birds like a heron if you are not careful. I nearly missed 7 today, including a fledgling.

[Ally]

There were 3 great blue herons, and 4 night herons. I've never got a night heron this close.

[Ally]

There was also a turf war between mallard and wood duck. They the wood duck went back to its own side, everything went back to normal.

[Shortsighted]

So, how far away was the Night Heron? As per your jpg's metadata (under right click properties).
The younger bird is a BCNH juvenile.
I'm always amazed how much activity there is on this trail of yours.
I wish I could go out again. I don't know what might be happening around here.
All I saw today is a Chipping sparrow. It was a whopper! I almost lost a leg.

[Ally]

So, how far away was the Night Heron? As per your jpg's metadata (under right click properties).
The younger bird is a BCNH juvenile.
I'm always amazed how much activity there is on this trail of yours.
I wish I could go out again. I don't know what might be happening around here.
All I saw today is a Chipping sparrow. It was a whopper! I almost lost a leg.

I don't know how to read the data, I think I was about 5 metres away from the heron.
I actually suspected that kid was a night heron, because of the colour of the it's eyes, but the colour of its feather threw me off. I thought maybe the kid played computer games and stayed up late.

[Shortsighted]

Right click on jpg file you want.
Now it is chosen.
Left click on chosen jpg file.
Go to the bottom of the pop-up window where it says "properties"
and right click on properties.
The next pop-up window has three tabs listed above.
Choose "Details"
new pop-up window list metadata.
Scroll down and you will find camera settings and
distance to subject ... approx.

The juvenile heron has the body shape of a BCNH.
DO NOT CLICK ON SELF-DESTRUCT!

[Ally]

Right click on jpg file you want.
Now it is chosen.
Left click on chosen jpg file.
Go to the bottom of the pop-up window where it says "properties"
and right click on properties.
The next pop-up window has three tabs listed above.
Choose "Details"
new pop-up window list metadata.
Scroll down and you will find camera settings and
distance to subject ... approx.

The juvenile heron has the body shape of a BCNH.
DO NOT CLICK ON SELF-DESTRUCT!

It's missing

[Shortsighted]

That's odd.
The AF would need to know precisely what the subject was in order
to record the focus distance. Multiple focus points might create
ambiguity. For bird photography you would be most successful
by adjusting the focus to center-weighted rather than multiple
focus points. If you have already set that then I do not know why
your subject distance is not displayed. You would need to consult
someone on this forum that knows gear. I'm not a gear-head.

[Shortsighted]

I've reviewed your metadata and the only thing that keeps popping out
at me is 600mm. I hate you. Ask one of your big glass buddies for help
and leave us length-challenged losers alone. No distance data indeed.
I wish I had your problems. Big isn't everything you know.
Yes it is!
Dinu is a physicist ... he knows everything. Ask the Captain for help.
I need to go back to polishing the bulkheads .... where I belong.

[Ally]

I've reviewed your metadata and the only thing that keeps popping out
at me is 600mm. I hate you. Ask one of your big glass buddies for help
and leave us length-challenged losers alone. No distance data indeed.
I wish I had your problems. Big isn't everything you know.
Yes it is!
Dinu is a physicist ... he knows everything. Ask the Capitian for help.
I need to go back to polishing the bulkheads .... where I belong.

I wish I had your experience and techniques.

[Dinusaur]

The physics behind calculating focal length, image size etc is quite simple under normal circumstances. It gets complicated with sensor size, pixel count, crop factor, prime or zoom lens, number of lens elements etc. I used to see subject distance in Exif data but not any more with newer version of Photoshop Elements. The reason is simple - it was never precise and gave a false impression. However, there are tools that still spits out an approximate value from the makers data in Exif, take a look at the following. Just upload your jpeg file, check the box that says that you are not a robot and wait for the result to come out. Scroll down to the parameter focus distance under maker data. For example I just ran this tool against my last Spicebush Swallowtail photo that I posted today in another thread and it says that the butterfly was about 6.68m from me - reasonably correct. I was using a prime lens.
http://exif.regex.info/exif.cgi

[Ally]

The physics behind calculating focal length, image size etc is quite simple under normal circumstances. It gets complicated with sensor size, pixel count, crop factor, prime or zoom lens, number of lens elements etc. I used to see subject distance in Exif data but not any more with newer version of Photoshop Elements. The reason is simple - it was never precise and gave a false impression. However, there are tools that still spits out an approximate value from the makers data in Exif, take a look at the following. Just upload your jpeg file, check the box that says that you are not a robot and wait for the result to come out. Scroll down to the parameter focus distance under maker data. For example I just ran this tool against my last Spicebush Swallowtail photo that I posted today in another thread and it says that the butterfly was about 6.68m from me - reasonably correct. I was using a prime lens.
http://exif.regex.info/exif.cgi

But I AM a robot. Mine came out saying 25 metres, no where close.