Show your Bird Portraits
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+1 ... the crop on the first one is just PERFECT!Menace said:Click said:arbitrage said:Bald Eagle portraits...hope you enjoy
Awesome. I especially like the first one. Well done.
Ditto - all are stunning but love the first one.
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Dylan777 said:Harv said:Red-breasted Merganser drake...
Skillful photographer + good lens = photo likes this
I can't wait to have something like this in my collection
Thanks a lot, Dylan.
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revup67 said:Here's a few taken with the 600mm IS II F4 on a 5D Mark III. All shots hand held without color modifications
Enjoy!
Two Cactus Wrens - note fruit juice (prickly pears from cactus) around their bill. Their call is most unique and easy to ID as it sounds like a car having a tough time starting up on a cold morning. Since 1931, they have been the Arizona State bird. All shots taken in southern California.
Two Cactus Wrens (11878) by Revup67, on Flickr
"Ridin' The December Sky at 5:05" by Revup67, on Flickr
American Kestrel (11848) by Revup67, on Flickr
Townsend's Warbler (11679) by Revup67, on Flickr
Note rows of "narrowly" drilled holes and protruding sap which attracts insects as well as Rufous Hummingbirds (dependent on season and regional location). The Sapsucker returns for its dinner (sap and insects) while they cling to the sap.
Red-breasted Sapsucker (11710) by Revup67, on Flickr
The Ruby-crowned Kinglet (male) with its crowned raised. The bird is next to impossible to find (though of Least Concern)..tiny and well camouflaged within the branches seeking aphids, caterpillars and the like. The timing has to be precise as its crown is typically flattened and shows as sort of a red speck on its cap.
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (male) 11612 by Revup67, on Flickr
Clearly, you are as patient and persistent as you are skilled! Your Ruby Crowed Kinglet is beautiful! "next to impossible" is putting it mildly: often I can only hear them, and see flitting among the higher branches. You've got it all: a nice pose, sharp and well-focused, and a creamy backdrop.
The other images are excellent as well.
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Indigo-banded Kingfisher (Alcedo cyanopectus) by alabang, on Flickr
Settings: 1/125 ƒ/5.6 ISO 1250 800mm
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+1Dylan777 said:Harv said:Red-breasted Merganser drake...
Skillful photographer + good lens = photo likes this
I can't wait to have something like this in my collection
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It's Monday morning, the kids are off to school and I'm pondering some of my bird images...some of which are quite descent. Anyway, it occurs to me that shooting birds is one of the better ways to develop one's skills as a photographer, ya get adequate gear and learn to properly use that gear and bingo...you're now a bird photographer. All that is fine if that's what floats your boat.
But, yeah there's always a but, what if you want more...what if you want to be an artist. You can't control/pose them. How does one use bird photography from an artists perspective, whatever that is?
But, yeah there's always a but, what if you want more...what if you want to be an artist. You can't control/pose them. How does one use bird photography from an artists perspective, whatever that is?
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Well, that's the tricky part isn't it. We see lots of images of birds. Beautiful birds. Tack sharp, with lots of detail. But they are very often just a recording of what that bird looks like. But every now and then we see a picture, where the bird is a part of a bigger whole (I'm not sure that's an acceptable expression in English), where composition, balance, environment, colors, contrast and bokeh play their part in something that gives it that artistic quality.chauncey said:
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Biiiiiirds 
Hello, I'm Drew... slowly worming my way around the forum. I've not posted in this thread before but everything looked terribly exciting
Hello, I'm Drew... slowly worming my way around the forum. I've not posted in this thread before but everything looked terribly exciting
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Rienzphotoz said:+1Dylan777 said:Harv said:Red-breasted Merganser drake...
Skillful photographer + good lens = photo likes this
I can't wait to have something like this in my collection
Very cool shot!
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I've been trying to push myself to get something different.
Work in progress they say. :-[
First couple, flash was clearly not right. before processing it was black. (I clearly need more DR, ;D)
3rd one a moment late, it had folded its wings.
4th one was taken with the camera shown to the left of the 3rd shot.
The birds very obliging, now I just have to improve.
Work in progress they say. :-[
First couple, flash was clearly not right. before processing it was black. (I clearly need more DR, ;D)
3rd one a moment late, it had folded its wings.
4th one was taken with the camera shown to the left of the 3rd shot.
The birds very obliging, now I just have to improve.
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Rienzphotoz said:+1Dylan777 said:Harv said:Red-breasted Merganser drake...
Skillful photographer + good lens = photo likes this
I can't wait to have something like this in my collection
Me to, would love to have taken this.
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