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Landscape / Re: Jippieeee! It's spring! Post your first spring pictures here.

« on: May 16, 2013, 03:19:18 PM »

taken with 600D & 17-55

Great shot! Love it

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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits

« on: May 16, 2013, 02:49:30 PM »

endiendo

I like them...especially #3 and the last one. Welcome to CR and keep posting

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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits

« on: May 16, 2013, 05:29:21 AM »

Continuing on the birds without feet theme 
Oh! This is not cropped! Not modified! Straight out of camera RAW converted to jpg in DPP. Then resized in XnView. I could enter it into a NatGeo competition! Do they do one for birds without feet? I mean it is a unique category! I have a few for birds without heads too if they do that

LOL
BIF=birds in flight
BWF=birds without feet

Two years ago while on vacation in Nice,France we went to a small family run restaurant in the old town. The featured special was "Alouettes sans tete". We didn't speak French so we asked the waiter (who spoke some English) what was the translation. He hunted for the right phrase and finally said "little bird without head". We ordered it and it was good. It is really stuffed beef rolls.

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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits

« on: May 15, 2013, 03:09:00 AM »

Victoria Crowned Pigeon
6D
221mm
f5.2
1/200

Very nice! What a beautiful and unusual bird. Crazy hat she's wearing

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Landscape / Re: Sunset landscape

« on: May 14, 2013, 10:02:01 PM »

Maybe a bit boring without too many items in the shot, but it was just us, the Rio, and the jungle in the back, on that evening in the Tigre Delta coming back to Buenos Aires ... i like the colors as if the sky was on fire (no touching it, it is straight out of the camera) and the quietness feeling of the small waves on the water ...

Paysages_Sunset_Tigre-Delta-Argentina_2009-04-09 par Julian_salsa, sur Flickr

Wow! Simply gorgeous.

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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits

« on: May 14, 2013, 09:49:30 PM »

Idiot4Hire

Beautiful photo...I love how colorful it is. also liked the dragonflies you posted on another thread today. Welcome to CR and keep posting

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Software & Accessories / Re: Quick release plates: RRS v's Manfrotto

« on: May 14, 2013, 06:50:46 PM »

One word of caution, lever action clams are wonderfully quick to use and very solid in their support of your camera, I LOVE my RRS.  They are however very picky about the dimensions of your L-plate dovetail, the RRS clamp will NOT hold a Sunway Photo dovetail firmly, it does however do very nicely with the Kirk components and obviously the RRS ones.  If you have a mixture of plates, I suggest you get the screw type clams such as the Kirk (nice quick action) or RRS's own screw style.  Your mileage may (obviously) vary but you'll love these plates and clamps.

RRS used to recommend only their own, Wimberley, and recent Kirk plates for their lever clamps. However, if you look at some of their clamps on their website, there's this notation:

NOTE: Starting in 2012, the Really Right Stuff B2 LR II clamp automatically adjusts to accept all Arca-Swiss style plates except Arca-Swiss P0 Slidefix plates and plates made by Novoflex. Choose a screw-knob clamp if you have Novoflex plates.

That's for some of the clamps included with their popular heads, give them a call if it's not clear from the site - they're very helpful.

I have one of those cheap $100 tripod/head combos. I want to eventually get a good (final purchase) tripod and ballhead. I have been reading CR posts about recommendations. My take so far is RRS or Gitzo legs and AS plates with ballheads from RRS, Markins, Kirk. My question is which is better for the ballhead...lever release or screw-knob clamp. I don't travel much or hike so weight doesn't matter too much. Have 7D (may one day get 5Dm3) and 100-400L and 70-200LII. My height is 70".

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Lens Gallery / Re: Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM

« on: May 14, 2013, 06:29:43 PM »

pdirestajr

Beautiful shots...well done!

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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits

« on: May 14, 2013, 05:31:54 PM »

Last one.

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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits

« on: May 14, 2013, 05:30:54 PM »

The Moorhen nest with 6 eggs.

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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits

« on: May 14, 2013, 05:28:48 PM »

This morning I go out to get the paper and my Heron friend swoops down and wants me to help him fish again. So I go in and get my 7D and 100-400L and a loaf of bread. We try about 5 minutes with no luck and then this brown heron lands on the opposite canal bank. This brown heron only comes around occasionally and she usually chases off my black heron friend (so they are either enemies or married ). After a minute, the black heron takes off soon followed by the brown heron. So I feed the 2 nesting Moorhens that have taken up residence here. They have gone through 3 different nests and have had to abandon them for one reason or another. I happen to be there when they exchange places on the current nest and discover they have 6 eggs incubating. I hope they hatch and I can get some photos of baby Moorhens. I'm worried because Herons eat baby chicks.

Some shots from this morning. Sorry, but it was 3 hours after sunrise and I was looking into the sun direction (couldn't be avoided). Thanks for looking and constructive comments welcomed.

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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits

« on: May 14, 2013, 05:01:56 AM »

Thanks jrista. It's always good to make new friends.

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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits

« on: May 13, 2013, 02:20:52 AM »

Thanks rpt for the kind words.

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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits

« on: May 13, 2013, 01:32:55 AM »

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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits

« on: May 13, 2013, 01:31:34 AM »

This young BCN Heron and I are now friends. Whenever I feed bread to the fish, he swoops down out of nowhere and lands at the ditch's water's edge at my feet and waits for me to entice the tilapia towards him. Today, he did it again and finally, after 15 minutes and half loaf of bread, he caught his 2nd fish on our team. 7D, 100-400mmL, F7.1, 1/100-1/160s, ISO 400, handheld with 580EX II flash and Better Beamer. PP in DPP. 1st 2 shots @285mm, rest @400mm.
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