Show your Bird Portraits
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Today I took ~3h walk to check my equipment (I'm honestly not satisfied from the photos taken in my vacation). My finding: you brake before the equipment! You need to know the behavior of your objects (to find a proper place to find them and to hide from them), you also need a time (and patience) to take the right shot (this is for really good shots, you shoot whenever you are not prepared and look at the results later, at least for the birds 
!). I think there is rather big difference when you know what exactly you are doing versus "just take that shot" - at least for me...
The bottom line: nice to shoot home (at least concerning the results)!!!
!). I think there is rather big difference when you know what exactly you are doing versus "just take that shot" - at least for me...The bottom line: nice to shoot home (at least concerning the results)!!!
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Thanks Click but it was check of the equipment : I like all of them, they just show that the mistake was not in the equipment (because the results match the ones from similar conditions before). I was the mistake!
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Hi ISv,
with your comments on not getting the quality of shots you are used to - and the amount of great shots that you've shown here; did you only spend time chasing all native birds in the mountains of Bulgaria
or was some time spent visiting relatives as well ...Anyhow - you managed to capture a load of birds in excellent quality!
W.
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Hi Nat_WA!Hi ISv,
with your comments on not getting the quality of shots you are used to - and the amount of great shots that you've shown here; did you only spend time chasing all native birds in the mountains of Bulgaria
Anyhow - you managed to capture a load of birds in excellent quality!
W.
- first tanks for the kind words! And yes I spent time with relatives and old friends (more than expected). Also, all the time spent in the nature was together with my daughter who is avid hiker and used to create turbulence - like getting lost in the unknown for her trails! Most of the time I didn't have the opportunity to relax and concentrate on shooting. Off-course, I'm not sorry: two weeks are by far not enough for the all planed activities. Better planing next time!Here are few more species, not included in the firs series.
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Won't be long before our wintering birds come in and the last of the ones that came here to breed head even further south. I'd like to introduce you to Babou, a Yellow Crowned Night Heron who likes long walks along the river and fresh crab dinners. I wish I had the 5DSR on to try and capture more detail and I think it has a lot less dust on the sensor :/ .
1/1250 : f/10 : ISO 1000 @840mm
1/1250 : f/10 : ISO 1000 @840mm
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Jack and Alan - I fail to take single photo of Woodpecker in my vacation, despite of the big expectations... So, kinda jealous!
Here some from the last two Sundays (back on the Islands off course). I'm rather happy with the second bird - Scaly breasted Munia (Lonchura punctulata), up to now I was with only 2 +/- good photos of these. First photo - young Black-necked Stilts...
!Here some from the last two Sundays (back on the Islands off course). I'm rather happy with the second bird - Scaly breasted Munia (Lonchura punctulata), up to now I was with only 2 +/- good photos of these. First photo - young Black-necked Stilts...
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