Show your Bird Portraits

[Monte]

Monte - No clue but nice shots never the less, especially the first.

Alan the high ISO shot are nice but just not quite how we'd prefer them to look. Hard to beat good lighting - maybe some fill flash??

Jack

I think I’ve figured a way around it. I posted some cat images using imgur url’s and they worked and looked right.

 

[Monte]

Here's the same two uploaded via Imgur.

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[Click]

Beautiful pictures, Monte. I especially like the first one. Well done.

 

[Vern]

tone mapped one file - I like what this did to the background

 

[ISv]

Nice shots Monte!

 

[ISv]

Really great shots Vern (and your ID looks spot on for me)!
What program did you use for mapping (you are not the only one that likes it)!

 

[Durf]

I notice that the images that I just posted have a totally different colour cast than what I see when I open them on my monitor individually, the same monitor. Yes, I've calibrated my monitor. What's up with that?? I've posted these same files on other sites with no coloraturas changes in viewing them.

I've noticed the same thing with some of my pics I've posted recently to this forum, huge color difference. They are fine posted on other sites, but here, they look totally different.....

 

[ISv]

Alan the high ISO shot are nice but just not quite how we'd prefer them to look. Hard to beat good lighting - maybe some fill flash??

Jack

Jack, I'm almost 100% agree with your opinion. Instead of "Hard to beat good lighting..." I may write "Impossible to..." mostly because I'm not sure the fill flash will get you to the same results (well, at least I'm not very good in this, I always see some differences that I personally don't like).

On other hand there are situations when if you don't shoot you just go home with nothing! And I think there are some folks around who need to get that shot, no matter how fine it will look as a picture (by one or other reason). Alan is Alan and he loves to show what his equipment is able to do (and stretching the boundaries time to time...). Is that useful here in the forum? I think so (well, I'm sure so): despite the photos are hardly competing with photos taken in proper light, they are still photos taken home and for some purposes they are 100% good enough. All this is an info that may help the guys who are after the object at any price. I'm not sure Alan is doing this exactly by the same reasons but it works there well enough...
I'm not very sure if I succeed to express myself good enough (in English) and it's just my opinion. Could be interesting to see what others are thinking about that anyway?

 

[dslrdummy]

Pied Oystercatcher on one leg, Narooma, NSW South Coast, Australia

 

[dslrdummy]

Black-shouldered kite, Werribee, Australia

 

[dslrdummy]

Sulphur-crested cockatoo, Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia

 

[dslrdummy]

Carmine bee-eaters, South Luangwa, Zambia

 

[dslrdummy]

Masked Lapwings, Narooma, NSW South Coast, Australia

 

[Click]

Very nice series, dslrdummy.

 

[7DmkI]

Saw it again this morning...

 

[dslrdummy]

Very nice series, dslrdummy.

Thanks Click

 

[ISv]

dslrdummy and 7DmkI - very nice photos!
My short trip today (I'm still fighting nasty bronchitis) didn't produce the bird I was targeting, but at least I got an opportunity to shoot "portrait" of the White Tern (juvenile)! First photo is Yellow-fronted canary. BTW as with many other photos that I posted here, these are de-saturated (-6-9 in PL) RAW files...

 

[Click]

7DmkI and ISv,

Very nice pictures, guys.

Happy New Year!

 

[AaronT]

Beautiful colors and detail ISv!

 

[7DmkI]

Thanks, Click.

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7DmkI and ISv,

Very nice pictures, guys.

Happy New Year!