Birds with attitude

[itsnotmeyouknow]

Took my 7D with me to my regular watering hole at Skelwith Bridge

This young Robin seems to be looking for some snacks and poised to swoop

Canon 7d Tamron 200 - 500 at f/6.3 and 500mm 1/800 ISO 1600


I-wonder-if-there's-anything-worth-having-at-Chester's-Cafe- by singingsnapper, on Flickr

More swans:

Canon 7D Tamron 200 - 500 at 200mm and f/8 1/800 ISO 200


Brathay-swan by singingsnapper, on Flickr

Same lens/camera and settings


Brathay-swan2 by singingsnapper, on Flickr

 

[Kernuak]

Took my 7D with me to my regular watering hole at Skelwith Bridge

This young Robin seems to be looking for some snacks and poised to swoop

It's actually a male chaffinch and they often display that sort of behaviour in public areas, they can be quite bold, sitting on chair backs and chirping to be fed. Nicely captured.

 

[bjd]

Low Pass from a Nuthatch

Canon 5D3 70-200 F1:4 at 200mm, F6.7, 1/3000S, ISO 8000

 

[bdunbar79]

Didn't plan the shot, just looked up and saw it. Clicked to spot metering very fast and auto ISO as quick as I could and got this shot.

 

[Erik X]

Nice duck! No, no don't bite, I will go away....
EOS 500D, EF 70-300/4-5,6 IS USM
Erik

 

[bdunbar79]

Almost as angry as the Aflac duck.

 

[StephenC]

Nice Tufted Duck. I always thought they were cute, until now. I guess we all have our bad days!

One of our Kookaburra's:

and his friend the duck:

A crow?:

 

[DavidGMiles]

Kite about to dive - taken at Gigrin Farm Mid Wales - 50D 300mm 2.8 IS L Lens Jobu Mount

 

[paul13walnut5]

Beautiful Kite. Great composition as well!

 

[Tin_28]

I think this is a night heron? I'm not sure. Shot this in a park in Taipei, Taiwan about a month ago.

 

[DavidGMiles]

Beautiful Kite. Great composition as well!

Thanks

 

[marekjoz]

Landing on a water


Wild duck landing on a water by marekjoz, on Flickr


Wild duck landing (closer) by marekjoz, on Flickr

 

[bdunbar79]

marekjoz,

Fantastic shot! Can you share your technical specs with us for that shot? I'd really be interested to know how you did that! Thanks.

 

[marekjoz]

marekjoz,

Fantastic shot! Can you share your technical specs with us for that shot? I'd really be interested to know how you did that! Thanks.

Thanks!
I hope nobody will take those posts with explanation as flooding the thread

Unfortunately I have to dissapoint you - there is a lot of PP in DPP (I don't think Lightroom would do it any better) and the original photo looks very very bad.

First of all this photo is one of four in a row, which were made in continuous mode with the use of AI Servo (the rest of them included below). The camera was 5d2, 70-200 F/4 L IS @200mm, 1/1500s, F4, ISO 400. It was cloudy, 4PM in Poland two days ago, the sun about 30 degrees to the left of the duck straight ahead. So it was almost behind the duck.

 

[marekjoz]

The photo is heavily cropped. Below there is a full frame of this photo.

There was a lot PP in DPP. Settings used you will find below as well (+DLO +NR). The photos without editing are also included. As you can see they are so ugly, that I wouldn't bother working on them if I wouldn't like the scene which I witnessed.

 

[marekjoz]

The other thing is how many wonderful shots I missed there because of focus missing, light, shutter speed... In short - lack of 5D3
Below - what I think I could have if there was another "I" in the camera name... And this is just a small set of bad photos made on this day.

 

[marekjoz]

Here is some boring list of all camera settings:
Camera Model Canon EOS 5D Mark II | Firmware Firmware Version 2.1.2 | Shooting Mode Manual Exposure | Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/1500 | Av( Aperture Value ) 4.0 | Metering Mode Evaluative Metering | ISO Speed 400 | Auto ISO Speed OFF | Lens EF70-200mm f/4L IS USM | Focal Length 200.0mm | Image Quality RAW | Flash Off | FE lock OFF | White Balance Mode Auto | AF Mode AI Servo AF | AF Microadjustment 0 | Picture Style Standard | Highlight tone priority 0isable | Auto Lighting Optimizer 0:Standard | Peripheral illumination correction Enable | Dust Delete Data No | Drive Mode Continuous shooting | Live View Shooting OFF
AFMA set to zero after Focal.

Another thing is to make ducks landing such a beautiful way. It was tricky. If you throw some bread to the water, where there are plenty of them, they start to get it first. If they see they can get them faster than other ducks, they fly and land...

Sorry for so many posts in this thread. Below some other shots I made on this day, where I find birds with attitude as well

 

[awinphoto]

If ya want attitude, she can give ya attitude haha

 

[bdunbar79]

THANK YOU!

 

[IslanderMV]

Back off Human !

Mockingbird