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Click said:Canada Goose in Fall colours
Excellent picture Click! Sharp up to the droplets flying from its wings... (I'm really missing a thumbs up emoticon
) And -as mentioned before- beautiful light and colours.Wiebe.
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PCM-madison said:
Great capture PCM-madison! So hard to keep them in frame when they are on the hunt; especially between the trees... Well done
Wiebe.
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Nat_WA said:Excellent picture Click! Sharp up to the droplets flying from its wings... (I'm really missing a thumbs up emoticon
Wiebe.
Hi Wiebe,
Thank you for your comments and kind words.
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Hi Click.
Superb shot, the light is an exquisite colour and from the right direction on to the subject and on to a nicely coloured background, always a bonus, but the detail is incredible. Well done.
Cheers, Graham.
Superb shot, the light is an exquisite colour and from the right direction on to the subject and on to a nicely coloured background, always a bonus, but the detail is incredible. Well done.
Cheers, Graham.
Click said:Canada Goose in Fall colours
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It was gorgeous weather here today and as I have to work all day tomorrow I nipped out for some photos, and found this nuthatch performing. I used the bare 400mm DO II as you need high shutter speeds for this bird on the 5DIV at iso 2000. The 5DIV handles noise at this iso very well, much better than does my DSR. The bottom one is sharper than the one above that there is some Moire in the tail - the AA_filter didn't remove that.
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V Nice Alan. On click to enlarge there is some moire. I've not noticed this on nuthatch shots but my waxwings have often shown quite a bit. So, how do you think it would look with no filter? Do you think the DO has any effect?
Jack
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Requiem for a blue jay. Not exactly a portrait and not exactly a bird. We have had a blue jay inhabiting our yard for a while. Pretty bird even if its voice is more than annoying. Unfortunately for the jay, we also have a couple of great horned owls that hang around a large spruce tree in our backyard. An owl obviously invited the jay for lunch. This feather is just one piece of evidence as to what transpired when the two birds met.
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Nice shots Alan. I'm kind of detail/sharpness maniac and really enjoyed your shots. I'm curious from what distance did you shoot?
Concerning the sharpness my humble opinion is that they are about equally sharp, but in the first two shots the focus plane (focus tracking?) is on the wings. In third one it is +/- on the eyes. Concerning the moire: my camera is without AA filter and at low magnifications/small, lower resolution screen I see moire frequently, especially when the pictures are with a lot of (repeating) detail. Recently I made larger print (20x30in) of a bird with such a detail and the moire visible at least on my laptop screen was not on the print.
Cheers!
Concerning the sharpness my humble opinion is that they are about equally sharp, but in the first two shots the focus plane (focus tracking?) is on the wings. In third one it is +/- on the eyes. Concerning the moire: my camera is without AA filter and at low magnifications/small, lower resolution screen I see moire frequently, especially when the pictures are with a lot of (repeating) detail. Recently I made larger print (20x30in) of a bird with such a detail and the moire visible at least on my laptop screen was not on the print.
Cheers!
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