Show your Bird Portraits

[IslanderMV]

Some closeups of Purple Sandpipers. They were very sleepy and so I was able to get close. At the very end of a long stone jetty.

7D and 100-400mm

 

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Beautiful pictures, Islander.

 

[sedwards]

Little Blue Heron , Sawgrass Lake Park

5D3_0027 by Stuart Edwards, on Flickr

 

[candc]

Little Blue Heron , Sawgrass Lake Park

5D3_0027 by Stuart Edwards, on Flickr

that's a mighty good looking heron. i like the dark colors. great shot

 

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Little Blue Heron , Sawgrass Lake Park

Very nice shot, Stuart.

 

[Isaac Grant]

Some closeups of Purple Sandpipers. They were very sleepy and so I was able to get close. At the very end of a long stone jetty.

7D and 100-400mm

Beautiful details on these shots. Really nice.

 

[sedwards]

This guy let me get close enough that 200mm was to much .
1dsIII
70-200 f4L
172mm
f7.1
1/1250
iso 100
uncropped
1DS37826-Edit by Stuart Edwards, on Flickr

 

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Very nice picture, Stuart.

 

[Don Haines]

This guy let me get close enough that 200mm was to much .

Quite the dramatic pose..... I like it!

 

[d4mike]

I was out for a walk in the dunes of Lake Michigan with my son and grandson looking for a hill to slide down when we came upon a pair of eagles in a tree.
I call this one Ninja Angel because of the way it hopped and jumped up a branch then struck a angel wing pose.

 

[d4mike]

The Ninja hop jump before the pose. Pretty amazing to watch this large bird scramble up a tree the way it did.

My grandson was caught in some pickers hollering he was stuck while I'm telling him to hold on a second.
Funny stuff.

 

[sedwards]

Great Egret
Another guy that let me get pretty close. These white birds have been the hardest for me to get exposure right , i always seem to overexpose and loose all the detail in the feathers. If anyone has any pointers on getting the right exposure on white birds , please chime in.

5D3_0233-Edit by Stuart Edwards, on Flickr

 

[fabio]

Hello CR people!!! hope you guys enjoy my last bird portraits... I love this extreme closeup of the short-eared owl, its just such an amazing moment to be so close of an wild animal like this!!!

 

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Hello CR people!!! hope you guys enjoy my last bird portraits... I love this extreme closeup of the short-eared owl, its just such an amazing moment to be so close of an wild animal like this!!!

Very nice pictures, Fabio. I especially like the first one.

 

[Don Haines]

Hello CR people!!! hope you guys enjoy my last bird portraits... I love this extreme closeup of the short-eared owl, its just such an amazing moment to be so close of an wild animal like this!!!

The eyes! Fantastic!

 

[Orangutan]

These white birds have been the hardest for me to get exposure right , i always seem to overexpose and loose all the detail in the feathers. If anyone has any pointers on getting the right exposure on white birds , please chime in.

Not that I'd presume to give you advice, but what settings do you typically use? I have the same problem, of course, with all birds that have a lot of bright white plumage. It's like shooting a pile of fresh snow in the middle of a green forest on a bright sunny day -- seems to confuse my camera's metering. If they give you enough time, could you spot meter, then expose manually from that?

 

[StudentOfLight]

Sunbird feeding on Lion's Ear

 

[jprusa]

Showing off.

 

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Showing off.

Nice shot.

 

[sedwards]

These white birds have been the hardest for me to get exposure right , i always seem to overexpose and loose all the detail in the feathers. If anyone has any pointers on getting the right exposure on white birds , please chime in.

Not that I'd presume to give you advice, but what settings do you typically use? I have the same problem, of course, with all birds that have a lot of bright white plumage. It's like shooting a pile of fresh snow in the middle of a green forest on a bright sunny day -- seems to confuse my camera's metering. If they give you enough time, could you spot meter, then expose manually from that?

I am using manual mode and i have been underexposing up to 1.5 stops for the white birds , but i still need to pull back the highlights in post. I am able to get useable shots but i was jst wondering if there was a rule of thumb for bright white subjects.