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[Menace]

Pic also on EF400 thread but love to share it with my birder friends

 

[candyman]

Spotted Towhee

1D Mk IV with 70-300L & 1.4x TC

Magnificent sir! ... didn't know that the 70-300 L takes the 1.4x TC ... is that a Kenko TC or Canon?

Must be the Kenko. The 70-300L does not support the Canon ext.

 

[Phil L]

Great Blue Heron

 

[Orangutan]

Great Blue Heron

Wow, great shot! At first this appears backlit, but on closer look it appears to be just shy of edge-on (ie. sun almost right in the heron's face). Did you use any fill, or is it all natural light? The "dark side" looks clean and sharp.

 

[Phil L]

Great Blue Heron

Wow, great shot! At first this appears backlit, but on closer look it appears to be just shy of edge-on (ie. sun almost right in the heron's face). Did you use any fill, or is it all natural light? The "dark side" looks clean and sharp.

Thanks very much! This was all natural light no fill flash. The heron was lit by upper right, back, sunset lighting. It was shot as a jpeg with minimal post processing.
Glad you like it!

 

[lion rock]

Phil L,
I love the heron photo, too. Great lighting, just not some lighting anyone gets all the time. Great catch on light and subject!
Beautiful!
-r

 

[Phil L]

Phil L,
I love the heron photo, too. Great lighting, just not some lighting anyone gets all the time. Great catch on light and subject!
Beautiful!
-r

I appreciate that very much, thank you!

 

[Jack Douglas]

Here are the pics I promised on the feeder/prop. Private email is fine for specifics or if it seems appropriate, perhaps here in this thread, although it is for bird portraits - right. Not a problem for me either way.

Jack

 

[Don Haines]

This morning was -27C and I saw the first Robin of Spring... WHAT ARE YOU THINKING!!!!! IT'S FEBRUARY!!!!! GO BACK SOUTH!!!!

Shot with SX-50 zoomed all the way out...

<EDIT> Got home and cleaned up the shot in Lightroom... second picture...

 

[Jack Douglas]

Boy Don, you got that right. He must have been listening to David Suzuki on global warming.

Jack

 

[Jack Douglas]

French kiss anyone?

Jack

 

[Maximilian]

French kiss anyone?

Cool!
Haven't seen a woodpeckers tongue before...

 

[Cog]

 

[Click]

Lovely. 8) Nicely done Cog.

 

[jprusa]

Very Nice Cog. he looks like he eats well ;D

 

[Cog]

Lovely. 8) Nicely done Cog.

Thanks Click!

Very Nice Cog. he looks like he eats well ;D

It was a very cold day (sunset time). But I always give them a treat after I shoot. No-one should work for free.

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi Jack,
Angel, very apt title, nice pic, glad you didn't loose interest and momentum on your rig, looks like it works real well from the results.
Phil, lovely heron pic.
Cog, nice pic, glad to hear you pay well, hopefully they will tell their freinds and you'll get more subjects.
Don, that cleaned up nice, to me it looked good before, but after some pp it looks great.
CRTony, interesting little chap
Menace, nice job freezing the motion of the water, great shot.
All others, many excellent shots, thank you for the inspiration.

Cheers Graham.

 

[Cog]

Cog, ...glad to hear you pay well, hopefully they will tell their friends and you'll get more subjects.

I guess they do tell. ;D Each time I see more and more cardinals in the bush. But maybe it's just spring coming. They started to to chase each other and fight. But they can be nice and charming as well:

 

[candyman]

Cog, ...glad to hear you pay well, hopefully they will tell their friends and you'll get more subjects.

I guess they do tell. ;D Each time I see more and more cardinals in the bush. But maybe it's just spring coming. They started to to chase each other and fight. But they can be nice and charming as well:

charming and modelling as well....
Wonderful capture!

 

[jrista]

Wonderful photo, Cog! I like the rest on your Flickr as well. Beautiful shots, all. Excellent perches. I'd love to have Cardinals here in Colorado, but alas, were to far west. I love seeing these beautiful photos of them even more because of that.