Show your Bird Portraits

[KatmanCanon]

Loving the wide variety and quality of shots!!

Long time browser but first time poster.  (Forgive me if I post this incorrectly P )

Here are a couple of my prized snaps this past summer:

Black Hills American Dipper - apparently a rather rare little critter in the Hills. This little guy was quite calm and let me snap for 5 minutes before flitting off to his next engagement.

Regards,

kmc

[revup67]

Never seen one of these before--took an hour just to get this shot as this bird is a bit peculiar.  Lands on a branch for 1-2 seconds then flys to another branch for 1-2 then hides in the scrub brush.  After an hour I began to give up.  As I walked down a steep dirt downgrade I caught one on a branch for about 5 seconds and pulled this off..his name..a Spotted Towee..where?  Modjeska Canyon..southern Cal.


Spotted Towee by Revup67, on Flickr

[Krob78]

Never seen one of these before--took an hour just to get this shot as this bird is a bit peculiar.  Lands on a branch for 1-2 seconds then flys to another branch for 1-2 then hides in the scrub brush.  After an hour I began to give up.  As I walked down a steep dirt downgrade I caught one on a branch for about 5 seconds and pulled this off..his name..a Spotted Towee..where?  Modjeska Canyon..southern Cal.


Spotted Towee by Revup67, on Flickr

  Great Job Rev!  There are a lot of quarry that seem to be difficult to capture... You were lucky to get the image you did! 

[revup67]

Switched from 5D Mark III to 7D for a day

Here's an Island Scrub Jay also from Modjeska Canyon (southern Calfifornia)


Island Scrub Jay (Modjeska Canyon) by Revup67, on Flickr

[revup67]

Krob - thank you for the notes..persistence pays off (most of the time)

Katman..never seen one of those birds before--nice catch!

[rpt]

Yellow-crowned Night Heron visits the OC for the fine-dining locally.

Wow! Great timing! I bet that bite hurt the bird. Were you already on to the bird or did its scream alert you?

Just dumb luck that I caught the epic struggle from beginning to end, 3-4 minutes. That photo showed the turning point after the bird escaped from the crab's claws and
got enough leverage to chomp the crab into 2 pieces.  Here's the Victor with the spoils.

Wow! That is something! You must have shot a pile of photos.

[Sporgon]

i don't know if this qualifies as a bird portrait, but here it is anyway. Canada Geese on Derwent Water in the English Lake District

[96Brigadier]

i don't know if this qualifies as a bird portrait, but here it is anyway. Canada Geese on Derwent Water in the English Lake District

I really like this shot, looks great in B&W.

Well done!

[GuyF]

Sporgon,

Nice shot but I'd be tempted to airbrush out the one at the back and the one on the far right - I think that would "tighten-up" the compositon. Ah, it's easy to critique after the image is taken 

Guy.

[Sporgon]

Thanks 96Brigadier for your kind praise. When I took this picture I felt there was something there but it didn't hit the spot until I produced it in B&W.

Thanks for your constructive comments Guy, funnily enough I felt the composition could be improved, and I have attached the version that's on our website as a 2X1. All our pictures are either 1X2 or 1X2.5.

[rpt]

Thanks 96Brigadier for your kind praise. When I took this picture I felt there was something there but it didn't hit the spot until I produced it in B&W.

Thanks for your constructive comments Guy, funnily enough I felt the composition could be improved, and I have attached the version that's on our website as a 2X1. All our pictures are either 1X2 or 1X2.5.

I would have kept the rock on the right side. If you go to your first picture and simply crop off the bottom so the bottom of the picture starts at the tip of the reflection of the rock on the right, you automatically get one thirds to the geese and one thirds to the top of the hills.

The shot is lovely.

[LSV]

Yellow-crowned Night Heron visits the OC for the fine-dining locally.

Wow! Great timing! I bet that bite hurt the bird. Were you already on to the bird or did its scream alert you?

Just dumb luck that I caught the epic struggle from beginning to end, 3-4 minutes. That photo showed the turning point after the bird escaped from the crab's claws and
got enough leverage to chomp the crab into 2 pieces.  Here's the Victor with the spoils.

Wow! That is something! You must have shot a pile of photos.

I also experimented with my 60D's video.  The original HD footage is much clearer -- I had reduced resolution to upload to YouTube: 

YCNH 3270	Small | Large

[serendipidy]

Thanks 96Brigadier for your kind praise. When I took this picture I felt there was something there but it didn't hit the spot until I produced it in B&W.

Thanks for your constructive comments Guy, funnily enough I felt the composition could be improved, and I have attached the version that's on our website as a 2X1. All our pictures are either 1X2 or 1X2.5.

I would have kept the rock on the right side. If you go to your first picture and simply crop off the bottom so the bottom of the picture starts at the tip of the reflection of the rock on the right, you automatically get one thirds to the geese and one thirds to the top of the hills.

The shot is lovely.

I tried your suggestion for Sporgon and got this result. Is this what you had in mind? I like it.

[Renegade Runner]

Marabou Stork

Rebel T1i
f/5.6, 1/250, iso-100

[rpt]

Thanks 96Brigadier for your kind praise. When I took this picture I felt there was something there but it didn't hit the spot until I produced it in B&W.

Thanks for your constructive comments Guy, funnily enough I felt the composition could be improved, and I have attached the version that's on our website as a 2X1. All our pictures are either 1X2 or 1X2.5.

I would have kept the rock on the right side. If you go to your first picture and simply crop off the bottom so the bottom of the picture starts at the tip of the reflection of the rock on the right, you automatically get one thirds to the geese and one thirds to the top of the hills.

The shot is lovely.

I tried your suggestion for Sporgon and got this result. Is this what you had in mind? I like it.

Um - no. I meant for you only to cut off the bottom. You have cropped from all sides. What I meant was: