Show your Bird Portraits

[dirkcleiren]

The place where this owl (Asio flammeus) was photographed, is a top spot location in Belgium for nature photographers. Every winter, a few owls hunt for mice in the same field.

5D mkIII, 500f4 IS II with 1,4x convertor. ISO 2000, f5,6 1/400sec

 

[Rienzphotoz]

This is a tiny Sun Bird (about the size of an index finger) one of the 3 that came down form the nearby hills during the intense monsoon rains in (Jul 2012) ... came to to my front yard to feed on some fresh nectar from the budding flowers. Image made with a Canon 7D, 70-200 f/2.8 L IS II lens set at f/2.8, 200mm, ISO 200 and 1/200 sec

 

[steven kessel]

Prairie falcon, photographed at the Raptor Free Flight demonstration, Sonoran Desert Museum near Tucson, Az. Canon 5D mark iii, 70-200 f4 L IS, image cropped and (obviously) converted to black and white. I made the conversion in Photoshop as an exercise but liked the image more as a black and white than in color. One bit of advice that I gleaned from elsewhere on this forum was that I greatly heightened the image's color saturation before making the conversion. The picture would have been far too garish in color but I think it worked splendidly as a black and white conversion.

 

[photofish]

Some of our "holiday"-pictures

Gull, Hoy, Scotland

Seagull von MNFischer auf Flickr

Shags, Farne Islands, Northumberland, England

Feeding Shags von MNFischer auf Flickr

Gull, Port of Ijmuiden, Netherlands

Facing The Gull von MNFischer auf Flickr

 

[Rienzphotoz]

This is a tiny Sun Bird (about the size of an index finger) one of the 3 that came down form the nearby hills during the intense monsoon rains in (Jul 2012) ... came to to my front yard to feed on some fresh nectar from the budding flowers. Image made with a Canon 7D, 70-200 f/2.8 L IS II lens set at f/2.8, 200mm, ISO 200 and 1/200 sec

This is the second Sun Bird
Image made with a Canon 7D, 70-200 f/2.8 L IS II lens set at f/2.8, 200mm, ISO 200 and 1/160 sec

 

[alan_k]

A couple from Montana last May.


adult_gho_montana 221 on Flickr


40-year-old-owl 219 on Flickr

 

[Alex]

My attempt

 

[revup67]

Anna's Hummingbird - up close n' personal


Anna's Hummingbird - Quail Hill by Revup67, on Flickr

 

[vargyropoulos]

I ran into this pair of hawks on the way home from work today

 

[Deva]

I an very envious of all these gorgeous pictures of beautiful birds in exotic locations. Welcome to a seagull in winter in St Peter Port harbour, Guernsey... 5D3 70-300mm @300mm f5.6, 1/250.

 

[G650ER]

My attempt

Wow ;D !
This one is outstanding! The IQ is crazy as well!

Here are a few ones from me:


Bird Bokeh by Jan Jasinski, on Flickr


P E L I C A N by Jan Jasinski, on Flickr


P E L I C AN by Jan Jasinski, on Flickr


P E L I C A N by Jan Jasinski, on Flickr


P E L I C A N by Jan Jasinski, on Flickr


B I R D B O K E H by Jan Jasinski, on Flickr

 

[PhotographAdventure]

Male cockatiel resting contently on his home. I was mainly testing at ISO 8000 with noise graininess. Image is SOOC.

 

[madmailman]

Would appear that I finally got my ducks in a row...

 

[rpt]

Would appear that I finally got my ducks in a row...

Ha ha ha! Good one

 

[Northbird]

One of my favorite raptors, from this past weekends shoot.

 

[Northbird]

another month or so and these guys ought to be back ...

Lovely shot that.

 

[glongstaff]

Seagull on the Quay Side at Towan Beach, Cornwall

Puffins off Puffin Island, Padstow, Cornwall

Martin Mere Wildfowl Trust, Ormskirk

 

[Mr Bean]

Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoo.

 

[RGF]

Every see a 4 winged Sand Hill Crane. Not photoshopped, just got very lucky has two birds merged into 1.

 

[Don Haines]

Some Great Grey Owls. I was wishing for longer lenses as I took these. They are a fairly rare visitor to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada... There are three of them and they appear to be staying in the same area as I have spotted them three days in a row. If any of you are in the area, contact me and I can let you know where to find them.